This book is a historical novel drawer or key, located in Asia Minor in the fifth century. The author emphasizes the fact that he was responsible for teaching Latin at a Swiss university ... and it feels a bit! Paschoud first novel, The Last Pagan is a thick book heavy style and sometimes quite difficult content that does not know the Empire. The Latin scholars will be able to check their own learning (warning, some references are approximate). Rest time, fascinating: that of the Confessions of St. Augustine.