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The book is, quite simply, a line-by-line translation of Shakespeare's play The Tempest translated into modern English.

It is 539 A.D.

The year is 548 and Empress Theodora is dead, the victim of cancer. Or so everyone in Constantinople, capital of the Roman Empire, believes.

Reed and Mayer combine the scholarship of Steven Saylor with the humor of Lindsey Davis.

Byzantium, capitol of the sixth century Roman Empire, simmers a rich stew of creeds, cultures, and citizens with a sprinkling of cutthroats and crimes.

In 525 Constantinople nothing is as it should be.

Who killed the mosaic girl?

In January 532, mobs ruled Constantinople, capital of the Roman Empire.

Jason Kennly needs to get a closer look when he spots a gray leather collar from across the dealers’ room at a science fiction convention, even if there’s no way he can afford it on his college stu

Pasha Batalov has lived his whole life doing what a good son is expected to do.

Why are sheep in a remote Egyptian village cutting their own throats?

The year is 542. While plague stalks Constantinople, an angel sets John the Eunuch on the trail of a human killer.

Presents five dozen sonnets of Shakespeare, including some of the best known in all of English literature.

Henry V is a study of kinship, patriotism, and heroic determination, tempered by tender comedy as Henry courts Katherine, Princess of France.

Othello, a Moorish general in the service of Venice, has married Desdemona, beautiful daughter of a Venetian Senator.