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Harry Sidebottom is Lecturer in Ancient History at Merton College, Oxford, and part-time lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick. He has written for and contributed to many publications, including Classical Review, Journal of Roman Studies, and War and Society in the Roman World.


The Burning Road

Ballista returns in The Burning Road. Just published. Available in all good bookshops, as they say, on Amazon, with good discount, and, if you live in the UK, at ASDA, with a massive discount.
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Published on October 13, 2021 08:57 Tags: ballista
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King of Kings by Harry Sidebottom
"This fantastic book starts out with our hero, Ballista, in a run from the enemy who defeated him in the last book, coming back home. From the midst of court intrigues to married life to the battlefield, Sidebottom presents a combination of real histo" Read more of this review »
The Mad Emperor by Harry Sidebottom
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The Mad Emperor by Harry Sidebottom
"Very good book! A master class on how to write public history and a very honest approach to sources, the topic and the historians craft. Maybe the extra honesty took a bit of the flavour I was expecting from the life of Heliogabalus (ok to be frank, " Read more of this review »
The Mad Emperor by Harry Sidebottom
" Hi Rose, Very glad you enjoyed the book. Actually there are reasonably comprehensive end notes and bibliography available online at the publisher`s si ...more "
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“Maximus was cleaning his blade on the dead man’s wolfskin. ‘You promised him his life,’ the Greek said. ‘No, I said death was his last worry.’ Maximus swung up on to Pale Horse. ‘Is that not so for all of us?”
Harry Sidebottom, Lion of the Sun
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“Nie rozumiesz. Każda religia, która nakazuje wyznawcom kochać odległego, zapewne wymyślonego boga bardziej od tych, których powinni kochać, rodziny, przyjaciół, a przede wszystkim dzieci, jest okrutna i nieludzka. Więc jak widzisz, nie sądzę, żebym należał do ludzi, których można nawrócić na wiarę w waszego ukrzyżowanego boga.”
Harry Sidebottom, King of Kings

“I take it you do not agree with your countrymen’s religious practices.’

‘Oh no,’ said Hippothous. ‘I am not Cilician by birth. Mine has been a long and tragic path. I was born in Perinthus, the noble city close by Byzantium. My father was on the Boule. When I was young, I fell desperately in love. Hyperanthes was nearly my age. Stripped for wrestling in the gymnasium, he was like a god. And his eyes – no sidelong glances or fearsome looks, no trace of villainy or dissembling.’

As they ate, Hippothous told them a tale of love, lust, subterfuge, murder, flight, shipwreck, loss and exile – a tale worthy of a Greek romance.

‘Probably from a fucking Greek romance,’ muttered Calgacus.”
Harry Sidebottom, Lion of the Sun

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