Sad to say, but I’m still in a long period of disruption, a big international move, teaching, a busy period of events/conferences, and I’ve just concluded a long period on the academic job market. Everyone please take notes! We know we did!įIYAH: So what’s your writing routine like? Do you have any rituals you follow at all?ĭurham: Right now I don’t have a writing routine. This man has been a major influence on a number of folks in the FIYAH staff and we were all absolutely thrilled when he agreed to spend some time dropping some of his wisdom on us. None other than David Anthony Durham is joining us today. Prepare to have some wisdom dropped on you by a Master Class writer in the field.
No one brings more verve, intelligence, and freshness to the novel of the classical age than David Anthony Durham.Today, on this last day of Black History Month, we have a VERY special treat for you all. In the pages of The Risen-the term the slaves in revolt have adopted for themselves-an entire, teeming world comes into view with great clarity and titanic drama, with nothing less than the future of the ancient world at stake. In this thrilling and panoramic historical novel we see one of the most storied uprisings of classical times from multiple points of view: Spartacus, the visionary captive and gladiator whose toughness and charisma turn a prison break into a multi-cultural revolt that threatens an empire his consort, the oracular Astera, whose connection to the spirit world and its omens guides the uprising’s progress Nonus, a Roman soldier working both sides of the conflict in a half-adroit, half-desperate attempt to save his life Laelia and Hustus, two shepherd children drawn into the ranks of the slave rebellion Kaleb, the slave secretary to Crassus, the Roman senator and commander saddled with the unenviable task of quashing an insurrection of mere slaves and other players in a vast spectacle of bloodshed, heroism, and treachery.
From the author of the widely praised Pride of Carthage, the superb fictional rendering of Hannibal’s epic military campaigns against Carthage’s archenemy Rome, comes the perfect follow-up: an equally superb novel of the legendary gladiator Spartacus and the vast slave revolt he led that came ever so close to bringing Rome, with its supposedly invincible legions, to its knees.
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