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Steven Saylor's Roma Sub Rosa series, occur the later Roman Republic and featuring Gordianus the Finder, has garnered unusual acclaim from listeners and reviewers likewise, establishing him among the preeminent historical secret writers. In A Gladiator Dies Only Once, the next collection of his award-winning stories featuring Gordianus, Saylor more than fits his own high benchmarks. Set between your occasions of his novelsRomanBlood and Catilina's Riddle, these nine stories of recently untold ventures from the early career of Gordianus - when his used boy, Eco, was still a mute youngster and his wife, Bethesda, was but his slave - will delight Saylor's many admirers while illuminating details of the early world like no other copy writer can. Included are "The Consul's Wife", which involves a twisted search for fact behind a threatening blind item in the Acta Diurna. In "The White Fawn", Gordianus must deal with a kidnapping and murder during the revolt of Sertorius. "Archimedes' Tomb" explains to the storyplot behind Cicero's discovery of Archimedes' tomb. Finally, "When a Cyclops Could Vanish in a Blink of an Eye" brings up a perplexing local situation in Gordianus' own home.
