epochal change!

Successful challenge for Patrick de Carolis to take us to ancient Rome, its splendor, its cruelty, its power struggles, the role of women '
It must be said that the characters of the novel are pleasant and endearing: Paulina who after many difficult events become the wife of Seneca, thirty years her senior couple improbable but oh so strong. The secondary characters too, like his brother Paulinus Faustina the Younger and her friends Niceta, Luda and all the faithful servants.
And then there are the characters of the great History: Claude, Agrippina, Poppea, Nero which we are given here 'the idea of ​​their excesses, their vices, their follies'.
One feels that the author has assembled a rich documentation without pay in the book of history, dense, boring to the limit, because it blends discreetly into the narrative; so it n''est never learned and does not break the rhythm, a performance !!
So it''sa very good novel that I highly recommend, especially for the step back into a time when all little treated in novels.