ISBN-13: 9780692864104 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 378 str.
It is a time when Rome rules the world and astrologers rule Rome with their eerie doctrine that is part astronomy, part superstition and all powerful. It is 48 AD and the Romans are searching the Museum of Alexandria for a sixteen-year-old who, according to court astrologers, is destined to play a fateful role in the future of the empire. Tigellinus, handsome and ruthless, discovers Epaphroditus, a library slave who was born at the fated time and sends him to Rome to become the young Nero's personal assistant. There Epaphroditus battles court intrigues and struggles with the question whether Nero is the Christian's Antichrist who "fiddled" while Rome burnt or a musical genius trapped inside a Caesar . An enlightening perspective on one of the most misunderstood men in history.