by Simon Scarrow · Newton Compton Editori · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788854138353
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«Il gladiatore» is the historical novel by Simon Scarrow, published by Newton Compton Editori in paperback (384 pages, in Italian).
After a bloody military campaign, centurions Macro and Cato are shipwrecked on Crete, devastated by an earthquake and a tsunami. In the chaos, slaves led by the gladiator Ajax rebel against Rome. Macro and Cato must help the island's authorities contain the revolt before it spreads across the whole Empire.
The novel is the ninth title in Simon Scarrow's Eagle series; the subtitle of this Italian edition is «L'uomo che piegò l'impero».
For readers of historical fiction set in ancient Rome and followers of the adventures of Macro and Cato.
Simon Scarrow is a British writer. Scarrow completed a master's degree at the University of East Anglia after working at the Inland Revenue, and then went into teaching as a lecturer, firstly at East Norfolk Sixth Form College, then at City College Norwich.
