The Eternal 30-Year-Old, Augustus Caesar.

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Subura secrets – Blood and sand in the shadows The roar of the crowd still echoed through the stone arches of the Colosseum long after the spectacle had ended. Aeneas Cassius Pollux, ex-slave turned investigator, stood in the shadow of the west…

Blood and sand in the shadows

The roar of the crowd still echoed through the stone arches of the Colosseum long after the spectacle had ended.

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Subura secrets – Silent laurel death The sun had long dipped beneath the terracotta rooftops of Rome, but the air inside the domus of Gnaeus Marcellus, the triumphant general of Germania, simmered with celebration. Torches flickered s…

Silent laurel death

It was a feast fit for Jupiter himself, a celebration of conquest and glory.

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Subura secrets – Iron, smoke and shadows The drizzle had started before dawn, soft enough not to matter, cold enough to make the marble steps of the Basilica Julia slick. Rome was awake in the way a predator stirs, slow, deliberate, waiti…

Iron, smoke and shadows

The drizzle had started before dawn, soft enough not to matter, cold enough to make the marble steps of the Basilica Julia slick.

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