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Article: The sexy 'tec of ancient Rome
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- The Northern Echo
- Article date:
- February 13, 2007
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Ancient Rome would have been very smelly to 21st century noses,
but there were plenty of murders and intrigue. HANNAH STEPHENSON
talks to an author who has brought the bloody past to life Saturnalia
by Lindsey Davis (Century, 17.99)ROMAN history may once have seemed a
dry subject - but in recent years films like Gladiator and the BBC
series Rome have thrown it into the spotlight again.Yet best-selling
historical novelist Lindsey Davis, whose stories are set in Ancient
Rome, has yet to see her characters brought to life on the screen in
an authentic way. And frankly, that suits her just fine.Davis,
creator of the Roman detective Marcus Didio Falco, has so far
resisted the offers of ...