Titles
- Amor contra Roma
Amor contra Roma (Love against Rome), historical novel
Urgídar, a young Iberian from Lesera, arrives to Rome in the year 12 BC with the intention of training as an orator and poet. There, he meets Ovid, whom he befriends, and witnesses the creation of his Ars Amatoria. With that book, the Roman thinker revolutionizes marital relations, and challenges Augustus’s laws against adultery. It becomes the origin of modern eroticism.
The novel reveals how Ovid’s erotic poetry turns the Rome of Augustus upside-down. For this, the most influential poet of all times will finally be accused of being a “doctor adulterii” (“adultery doctor”) and exiled. But this is also the story of an initiation, one that Urgídar experiences among slaves, poets, spies, in brothels, baths, palaces, and gardens, at parties and orgies. Besides, there are conspiracies, poisonings, exiles, sea journeys, magic rituals – and a dangerous scheme to take over the Empire …
Spain: Ediciones B, 2014
» Text in: German
