The Waters of Forgetfulness

by YorickBlumenfeld (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2009

  $3.49

  This fictional memoir from the Augustan age takes an intimate and uncritical look at the mores and morals of the period, from the practice of orgies to the mystery cult of the Orphics. Charon's almost visual descriptions of the Roman Hell will haunt the reader, and the cast of characters, topped by Virgil and the prophetic, truly revered, Sibyl of Cumae, will entice. As the end of an oracular era, stretching back some 700 years, approaches the narrative's tension will grip the reader's heart.