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A Roman Trilogy

Tarsus

Three books. One empire at its hinge.

From the pirate-haunted coves of Cilicia to the philosophic schools of Rhodes, from the grain-ports of Alexandria to the smoke of a Roman forum — Tarsus follows a world on the cusp of the late Republic, where antiquity's old certainties are giving way to something none of its inhabitants can yet name.

The Trilogy

Book I Tarsus Book I — Roman soldiers aboard ship approaching a Mediterranean port
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Book I

A Roman officer and his men make landfall at a Cretan harbour, orders in hand from a Senate that no longer trusts the men it sends. The sea is full of pirates. So is the city behind those walls.

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Book II Tarsus Book II — scholars gathered beneath a star-chart dome with an armillary sphere
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Book II

Under the constellation dome of a Rhodian philosopher, soldiers and scholars sit at the same table. One man counts the stars. Another counts the days until the fleet must sail.

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Book III Tarsus Book III — Roman warships approaching a fortress hewn into rocky cliffs
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Book III

The Anticrag. A fortress inside a cliff-face, harbour-mouths like open wounds in the rock. What waits inside is not merely pirates — it is the idea that Rome might not always win.

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