Lucius Manlius Piso, a Roman of the Caelian hill, writes home to his friend Curtius from the splendid desert city of Palmyra. Through his letters we meet Queen Zenobia, her court and her ambitions, hear the Christian preacher Probus, and watch the city’s defiance of Rome build toward war with the Emperor Aurelian.
An elegant epistolary novel of the ancient world by an American writer of the 1830s, a forerunner of Ben-Hur. Download the free EPUB.