The History of Rome

Posted on May 9, 2014 by Meg

IT WAS THE WORST YEAR IN the history of Rome. Well, perhaps it wasn’t quite that bad.

— Opening line of John Maddox Roberts’ SPQR VIII: The River God’s Vengeance (The SPQR Roman Mysteries) This whole series is great, but this is a particularly good opening.

This is also pretty much how Harold begins telling a story.

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