Rowan X. Adler
Gens et Gloria III - A Zygia ad ApolloniumA Latin Historical Novel of Love, Trickery, and War under TrajanRome laughs. Dacia burns. A bride watches in silence.In the third volume of the acclaimed Gens et Gloria series, Rowan X. Adler leads us from the sunlit theatres of Baetica to the frozen frontiers beyond the Danube. A wandering comic troupe becomes legend. A senator’s son, now a military tribune, is cast into the shadows with a rogue reconnaissance unit. And a marriage-sealed in sacred ritual-faces trials deeper than exile.Zygia, a sharp-tongued Greek woman neither wife nor slave, becomes both muse and battleground in a story where comedy hides omens and desire contends with duty. As war ignites in Dacia, Lucius Vibius Florus must guide his numerus exploratorum through forests thick with prophecy and ambush, serving an empire that forgets its gods.Written entirely in classical Latin, Gens et Gloria III fuses Plautine farce with Tacitean realism, Apuleian fantasy with historical grit. Featuring rare Golden Age vocabulary, vivid Roman customs, and scenes drawn from the Dacian Wars of AD 102, it is a novel that teaches as it delights.Perfect for lovers of historical fiction, advanced Latin learners, and readers of Plautus, Tacitus, and Caesar alike.Ride. Time. Lege. Da vitam.
