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Ferial Day & Master Warrick: Two Alternative Histories
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Ferial Day
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9781987430561
ISBN13:
9781987430561
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Ferial Day
$10.65
One is not to sow a field if one has not first sacrificed a puppy. So said ancient Roman writer Columella in "Res Rustica," his massive manual on farming and agriculture. He was referring to the Ambarvalia, an official "dies ferialis," or "ferial day," on which heads of households throughout the Roman Empire performed the ritual, which was held in what is now late May. In "Ferial Day," an alternate history set in Victorian ancient Rome, scholar Marcus Laelius, wracked by the prospect of this mandated but grisly civic duty, contends with a wife who might abhor him, a discovery that could kill him, and some unlikely spiritual heirs of a dead rebel. Yet for all that Laelius has to fear, the most fearsome thing of all might be that puppy -- if not his own still, small voice
| Author: Gev Sweeney |
| Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Publication Date: Apr 02, 2018 |
| Number of Pages: 68 pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Paperback |
| ISBN-10: 1987430565 |
| ISBN-13: 9781987430561 |
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