Rowan X. Adler
A Latin Novel of Empire, Identity, and Intrigue in Roman MauretaniaSet in the Roman province of Mauretania Tingitana during the principate of Trajan, Gens et Gloria II continues the richly imagined world of Roman Africa. With elegant and immersive prose, it follows the intertwined lives of Roman officers, provincials, freedmen, performers, and strangers-each navigating a borderland where Roman law, Punic rites, and ancestral memory meet.At the center stands Lucius Vibius Florus, a patrician officer tasked with command in the city of Volubilis, where daily life blends bureaucracy, ceremony, and quiet unease. Alongside him, Cassia, his wife, encounters a complex spiritual landscape where old gods are never far and civic order masks deeper tensions.In the countryside and along the roads, another journey unfolds: one of satire, spectacle, and performance-sometimes comic, sometimes unsettling-as travelers and entertainers move through a world shaped by empire and legend.________________________________________✦ A Living Latin Experience ✦✔ Written entirely in idiomatic Latin, faithful to Classical usage and suited to both literary reading and advanced language learning.✔ Evokes the style of Livy, Apuleius, and Tacitus, with layered character voices drawn from military, religious, comic, and domestic life.✔ Builds a world of archaeological realism and cultural authenticity, based on Roman North Africa in AD 100.✔ Ideal for readers seeking Latin literature with narrative depth, not adapted texts or modern paraphrase.________________________________________This is not Rome as imagined from a distance-it is Rome as lived, spoken, feared, remembered, and recorded by its own people. Endorsed by a Leading LatinistHoc volumen in manus sumite, O lectores! Hoc volumen evolvite! Etenim inibi continetur pars altera mythistoriae luculente scriptae, quae Gens et gloria est nuncupata. In huius opusculi lectione quasi defixi quoddam iter facere videbimini non solum Latine loquentes, sed etiam cum ipsis Romanibus veteribus colloquentes! Quo iter facietis? Romamne? Minime gentium! Ibitis in Mauretaniam Tingitanam, ubi cum leonibus et legionibus versabimini, in mapalibus et tuguriis, in oppidis et urbibus res mirabiles videbitis. Non Romae, non in Italia, sed in ipso dicionis Romanae limite discetis ’ibi Romanum imperium esse, ubicumque Romana lingua dominetur’! Professor Terence Tunberg, University of Kentucky
