John Arden recounts the extraordinary adventures of an ordinary man who gets embroiled in the expansionist activities of the Republic of Rome.

In the first century BC, a more or less ordinary central character - an actor’s agent - gets caught up in a series of more or less extraordinary events. Following his hero’s adventures across half the known world - from Asia Minor to the very heart of Rome - Arden allows us vivid glimpses of a world in turmoil under the heel of colonial ambition, and of the furious resistance this arouses amongst the subject peoples.

Shortlisted
The Booker Prize 1982
Published by
Methuen
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John Arden

John Arden

About the Author

John Arden was born in Barnsley, England. He has been widely lauded as one of the most significant British playwrights of the 1950s and 60s.
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