{"id":855,"date":"2016-09-01T11:31:40","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T10:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/sgmpublishingarchival\/?page_id=855"},"modified":"2024-08-21T15:23:47","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T14:23:47","slug":"79-ad","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/sgmarchive\/79-ad\/","title":{"rendered":"79 AD &#8211; the sequel to &#8216;Slave Prince&#8217; and &#8216;Roman Brother&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>by S.G.Miles<\/h3>\n<h4>Paperback \u00a37.99; ISBN 978-1-909551-67-1, September 2016<\/h4>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-861 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/sgmarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/79AD-cover-197x300.png\" alt=\"79AD cover\" width=\"118\" height=\"174\" \/>Following the enthusiastic reception of S G Miles&#8217; previous forays into the world of Ancient Rome, we are pleased to present his third story of the ex-slave boy Leo and the Eridani. We have moved on two years; Leo celebrates his fourteenth birthday, the first step for a boy into adulthood. And the year known to us as 79 AD was to prove a historic one &#8211; a new Emperor, and the spectacular disaster of the eruption of Vesuvius: as our tale is set around the Bay of Naples, we have a front-row seat for that terrible event!<\/p>\n<p>All of the characters familiar from Slave Prince and Roman Brother are back &#8211; Leo and his brother and sister, the Familia and Domus Eridani and the gruff retired General Germanicus &#8211; and new ones join them from Emperor Titus and Pliny the Elder to slave-boy Mercurio. The author&#8217;s careful research and active imagination once again bring us a story about people we can relate to set against a believable historical backdrop.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I have a nasty habit of becoming very involved with my characters, almost as if they are my family &#8211; it can be a bit of a curse as I want to keep on following them! In this case, I&#8217;m wondering about Leo\u2019s future career, where he will end up; maybe I&#8217;ll find out in time!&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by S.G.Miles Paperback \u00a37.99; ISBN 978-1-909551-67-1, September 2016 Following the enthusiastic reception of S G Miles&#8217; previous forays into the world of Ancient Rome, we are pleased to present his third story of the ex-slave boy Leo and the Eridani. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/sgmarchive\/79-ad\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">79 AD &#8211; the sequel to &#8216;Slave Prince&#8217; and &#8216;Roman Brother&#8217;<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-855","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/sgmarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/sgmarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/sgmarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/sgmarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/sgmarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/sgmarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1130,"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/sgmarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/855\/revisions\/1130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/sgmarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}