Empire: The Novel of Imperial Rome, (Paperback)

from MarysGirl

"Empire" continues the story of the Pinarius family chronicled in Steven Saylor's earlier novel "Roma." Roma followed the aristocratic family from the founding of Rome through the Republican years. "Empire" picks up at the end of Augustus' reign and concludes at the end of Hadrian's, covering abo...

from mdtocci

I received this book as part of the Early Reviewers program, and since it is a sequel to the book Roma, I decided to read that book first. The two books together cover the history of one fictional family from the founding of Rome in around 600 BC, to the reign of Hadrian. The first book covers ar...

from JGolomb

"Empire" is Steven Saylor's highly anticipated follow up to his centuries-spanning historical fiction saga, "Roma". Both books trace the ancestral evolution of the Pinarii family as they bear witness to the foundation and growth of Rome and its Empire. "Roma" covered the earliest foundations of R...

from JennileeFoster

I was excited to get the chance to review this book; I had Roma sitting on my bookshelf for quite some time and hadn't had a chance to read it. I read Roma by the same author, I was not impressed and well I went into Empire with a heavy heart knowing that I would probably not enjoy this book if i...

from kurvanas

To paraphrase some Queensryche I once heard, "He's building Empire." This is the second installment in his second major series. Saylor always does a magnificent job illuminating the ancient Roman world. Can't thank him enough for making Rome live again in popular fiction. Here we are back in the ...