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The Marius Scrolls

by Vincent B. Davis II 2 books in this series

The Marius Scrolls are short Roman novels centred on Gaius Marius before his dominance of late Republican politics. They work as companion pieces to the Sertorius Scrolls, showing the early military and political experiences that shaped Marius and the Republic before the Social War and Sullan crisis.

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Books in this series (2 books)

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#1 – Son of Mars

Vincent B. Davis II

Son of Mars is a short Roman novel framed around Gaius Marius reflecting on the beginning of his military life. Writing to Quintus Sertorius, Marius looks back to service in Spain, where the experience of campaigning, fear and killing begins to form the ambition that will…

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#2 – Blood in the Forum

Vincent B. Davis II

Blood in the Forum places Gaius Marius back in Rome after campaigning in Spain, just as the reform programme of Tiberius Gracchus turns land, poverty and military service into matters of public confrontation. Marius is drawn from military experience into a political world where principle, ambition…

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