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Mistress of Rome Kate Quinn
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

Summary: (from goodreads.com) From the national bestselling author of Daughters of Rome and Mistress of Rome comes a tale of love, power, and intrigue spanning the wilds of the Empire to the seven hills of Rome. Mistress of Rome by Kate Quinn My rating: 1 of 5 stars It's ancient Rome, and a Jewish slave falls in love with a Gladiator from Britannia. Ovid was perhaps the greatest poet during the reign of Augustus, the first Emperor of the Roman Empire. Mistress of Rome by Kate Quinn. Mistress of Rome by Kate Quinn - Lovereading UK. But although Domitian fears betrayal from every side, he is unaware that the greatest threat lies next to him – a slave girl who has come to be called the Mistress of Rome… Read the extract. This book was a great and splendid surprise. Purchased as a toy for the spiteful heiress Lepida Pollia, Thea and her mistress will become rivals for the love of Arius the Barbarian, Rome's newest and most savage gladiator. A Roman concubina was not an additional sexual partner; she was a man's sole female companion, sometimes his life-long associate. One powerful family holds a city, a faith, and a woman in its grasp--from the national bestselling author of "Daughters of Rome" and "Mistress of Rome." Rome, 1492. Thea is a slave girl from Judaea, passionate, musical, and guarded. A large number of leading citizens preferred a mistress (concubina) to a wife. I read several blog posts about Mistress of Rome, by Kate Quinn, and was intrigued enough to put myself on the wait list at the library. She wrote her first book during her freshman year in college, retreating from a Boston winter into ancient Rome, and it was later published as Mistress of Rome. I don't know why, but watching sports really brings out the historian in me. Synopsis(from Penguin.com): Mistress of Rome is an historical novel brimming with forbidden love and unrelenting revenge. Agostino Chigi wanted only the best and had the means to afford the finest taste in art, thus commissioning the best artists of Rome in their prime. Ovid and his mistress, Corinna, specifically. In the reign of Emperor Domitian, Thea of Judaea lives in Rome having been purchased as a slave to Lepida Pollia. I really took it up as a light read and was afraid it would turn out an annoying poorly written chick-flick.