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Talbot Mundy was an early 20th century English-American author who wrote several popular adventure books that were read by young and old alike.
- Published on: 2016-01-30
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .22" w x 6.00" l, .31 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 96 pages
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
One of Talbot Mundy's best
By Robert Bruce Scott
The Plot: Commodus, son of Marcus Aurelius and Emperor of Rome, has gone insane. His powerful inner cirle of supporters gather to plot his death. While each person has reasons for killing Commodus, who will be the person who finally assumes responsibility and kills this "Roman Hercules"?
The rest of the story: As in most of Mundy's books, he does not portray people as good or evil. He presents their motivation and lets you judge. There is no hero to this book. In fact the Hutchinson edition's cover had a subtitle stating "An episode withtout a hero". The closest character to being "a hero" comes across as being an idealistic simpleton.
Commodus does not strike you as being evil (insane maybe but not evil). Commodus enjoys the fame of being Roman Emperor but doesn't like the everyday grind of being emperor. He prefers to fight in gladitorial events against both men and beasts. Being as the Emperor can't actually fight in the arena, He finds a "look-a-like". The "look-a-like" sits in the emperor's chair at the arena while the real Commodus fights in the games. All Rome knows he's a "look-a-like" but who's going to point this out? Not anyone who has hopes of living a long life. One day the "look-a-like" is killed and Commodus can no longer go participate in the fighting. Unstable in the first place, he now goes the rest of the way into madness. He says that Rome has become decadent and now will get the Emperor it deserves.
The rest of the slim novel (156 pages in the paperback edition) revolves around the plot to kill the emperor. And this is the part of the novel that I find most intriguing. There are seven or eight plotters. Each professes unselfish reasons for believing that Commodus must die. Yet when asked to perform the actual killing, each plotter states reasons why he can not be the killer. Who eventually steps forward and kills Commodus? Read this book. It's a great one!
Last comment: As is true with most of Mundy's historical novels, the events told in the novel are basically true. All but one or two of the main characters were real people that actually participated in the history just as Mundy portrays them. In the case of Caesar dies, this is especially true. While it will give away the identity of the killer, you can go to the url [...] and read for yourself how accurate Mundy wrote this historical novel.
Should you be interested in Talbot Mundy (and I hope you are) please read my other reviews of some of Mundy's books. Please help keep a great author's books alive. Oh, and please don't curse at me too much when you find yourself trying to track down used books of his other titles as many are no longer in print.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Exceptional take of the assassination of Commodus
By A. Bourbon
"Caesar Dies" by Talbot Mundy is not for everyone and one needs a knowledgeable understanding of Roman history, specifically of Commodus and of the conspirators. Once you know at least who Commodus, Marcia, Galen, Narcissus, and Pertinax were, you can enjoy and understand what exactly is going on. This story for the most part, was very informative and entertaining. It is heavy with dialogue and Roman politics and is amazingly accurate with historical details, a rarity with any fictional novel. For example, Narcissus did strangle Commodus as the book shows, and it only occurred when Marcia found out that she was on the proscription list, which also was shown in the book. Many other aspects were historically correct. In fact, one can infer, as I have, that this personal interpretation of the events leading to and the assasination of Commodus itself can be seen as having taken place for real, though there are fictional elements involved.
This story's main character is Sextus, not to be confused with Sextus Cornelius Repentius, who married Didius Julianus' (next emperor following Pertinax) daughter. Sextus is a fictional character who finds out that a letter he has written to his father about his criticisms of Commodus had been intercepted and that his father was soon thereafter killed because of the letter and that Sextus was now an outlaw. Sextus takes the name of a popular, dead robber he finds crucified named Maternus and goes about hiding with the help of the governor of Rome, Pertinax. Though the story diverts from Sextus after the first chapter and emphasizes characters by naming chapters after them, he is frequently mentioned as an integral part of the story and in the chapter named after the historical physician Galen, he shows that he is brave enough to take the opportunity himself to kill Commodus. One can relate Sextus to Maximus in the 2000 movie "Gladiator" when he says determinedly to Derek Jacobi's Gracchus character, "I will kill Commodus."
As I mentioned, there are fictional elements involved. For one, no one can put blame on Galen for making poison that tried to kill Commodus, though it is likely he prepared the poison considering that he was Commodus' physician. Also, it is not probable that Commodus had a double though there could have been one. Commodus going as the name of Paulus the gladiator also is not probable but there is historical accuracy here since Paulus was inscribed in Commodus' statues. Either way, there is no way to prove that a lot of these fictional elements are false, which means that there is a possibility that this is what could have happened in reality.
I recommend this book for those educated in the Roman Empire's history, since there are numerous references to previous Emperors and historical people, like Julius Caesar. Overall, I give the book four stars out of five, and I encourage those who are interested in the subject to buy the book.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Great read
By Patrick T. Coughlin
A thoroughly well written book. A story of Roman intrigue at a glance, but upon further reflection the story becomes a complicated tale of moral ambiguity. The only man great enough to be Caesar is mad and there are none with the fortitude and perseverance to wear the mantle. A quick and enjoyable read, by an author that clearly has done his research well.
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