Quo Vadis? Sinkiewicz HenrykPaperback
Quo Vadis? Sinkiewicz HenrykPaperback Rome during the reign of Nero was a glorious place for the emperor and his court; there were grand feasts, tournaments for poets, and exciting games and circuses…
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Quo Vadis? Sinkiewicz HenrykPaperback
Rome during the reign of Nero was a glorious place for the emperor and his court; there were grand feasts, tournaments for poets, and exciting games and circuses filling the days and nights. Petronius, a generous and noble Roman, a man of the world much in favor at the court of Nero, is intrigued by a strange tale related by his nephew Marcus Vinitius of his encounter with a mysterious young woman called Ligia with whom Vinitius falls madly in love. The pageantry and pretentious displays of excess were sufficient to cloy the senses of participants as well as to offend the sensitive.
She is also a Christian. Ligia, a captured King's daughter and a one-time hostage of Rome, is now a foster child of a noble Roman household. The setting of the narrative was prepared with utmost care.
Henryk Sienkiewicz visited the Roman settings many times and was thoroughly educated in the historical