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Didn't like it quite as much as the first two parts of Harris's Cicero trilogy but I still enjoyed it immensely, especially the last third of the book which I pretty much read in one breath. This is the kind of fiction that makes ancient Rome come alive. It wasn't just Caesar and crazy emperors, and this book shows just that. Also, the main hero is quite interesting, an honest but stubborn man who lives for his work (an aqueduct engineer) only, until he meets a daughter of a particularly repulsive rich man... And finally the highlight of the book - philosopher/admiral Pliny, who famously died after describing the explosion of Vesuvius - through him Harris shows what knack he has for bringing famous Roman writers alive (see his Cicero trilogy for much, much more). Overall, a great read.