For award-winning, internationally-acclaimed author Rosemary Sutcliff (1920-92). By Anthony Lawton: godson, cousin & literary executor. Rosemary Sutcliff wrote historical fiction, children's literature and books, films, TV & radio, including The Eagle of the Ninth, Sword at Sunset, Song for a Dark Queen, The Mark of the Horse Lord, The Silver Branch, The Lantern Bearers, Dawn Wind, Blue Remembered Hills.
Posted by A review of Rosemary Sutcliff’s novel The Flower of Adonis, historical fiction for adults, said
The Flower of Adonis is an excellent grown-up novel on the theme of Alcibiades, if the Peloponnesian War and Athens in the fifth century BC interests you. As for Eagle of the Ninth, I became (briefly) an archaeologist partly because of the book. All I know about Roman toilet behaviour I learned from her at the age of 12!
I have added the link! Thanks.
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You might be interested in this (http://timesonline.typepad.com/dons_life/2010/04/the-cesspits-of-herculaneum.html) recent entry in Mary Beard’s blog, about multi-storey Roman toilets in Herculaneum!
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