The Shadow of Rome

By Dorina Marcela Ene

I wrote this book, whose action takes place in the second century B.C., not to make a historical novel, situated in a precise epoch, with characters whose evolution should follow a trajectory as close as possible to the reality of the time. On the contrary. Even characters who have a historical correspondent are seen in imaginary situations; the city of Pergam is considered to be a port, the hero and the heroine are fictitious characters etc.
What interested me as the main theme of the book was love. In a cruel world where between people there was the unnatural barrier of slavery, when the human species itself was unnaturally divided into humans and slaves, love appears not only as a link between the two notions, apparently totally different, but also as an omnipotent force that erases all the artificially imposed differences and restores the natural order. Through this it is also seen as the unique source of absolute happiness, even if the heroes were supposed to live over a hundred years before LOVE should be proclaimed by Christ as the unique admissible way of life for humans. The heroine can't possibly give up such a love, even if her final gesture might have been condemned in later times. But in a world governed by those mean, sly, cruel gods, created absolutely upon the face of man, after she had known love, it was normal that the heroine should not be able to choose another way.
I hope that this novel, though short, should be, especially for the young generation, an example which illustrates the beauty of true love faced with temporary, insensitive love that dominates the epoch when we live. If when reading the book the fundamental difference between the two shapes of human affectivity is clearly seen, it means that the purpose of its writing was fulfilled.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0C9S86T9T
• ISBN13: 9798397659734
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"