Lindsey Davis: The Course of Honour (UK 2011)

From the Publisher:
The love story of the Emperor Vespasian, who brought peace to Rome after years of strife, and his mistress, the freed slave woman Antonia Caenis, this book recreates Ancient Rome's most turbulent period - the reigns of Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius and Nero, and Vespasian's rise to power. As their forbidden romance blossoms, she is embroiled in political intrigue, while he embarks on a glorious career. Years pass, then Vespasian risks all in the climatic struggle for power - bringing hope for Rome, but a threat to the relationship that has endured so long.

Lindsey Davis: The Course of Honour. A Novel. Random House, ISBN: 9781446457658 (May, 2009), eBook, 0.64 MB (ca. 352 p.), £6.99 (?).

Lindsey Davis: The Course of Honour (USA 2009)

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In ancient Rome, ambitious citizens who aspired to political power, to become one of the ruling elite -- a senator, had to follow what was known as "The Course of Honor". This course had only one unbreakable rule: a senator is forbidden to marry a slave, even a freed slave. When the soldier Vespasian meets an interesting girl in the imperial palace, he doesn't know she is a slave in the household of the imperial family. But he is inexorably drawn in by her intelligence and charisma. Yet as Vespasian slowly rises from near-obscurity and as emperor after emperor plays out their own deadly, seductive games of lust and conquest, the future is something no one could imagine. No one could believe that a country-born army man might win the throne -- no one, that is, except a slave girl who, with the future Emperor, begins a daring course of honor of her own.

Lindsey Davis: The Course of Honour. A Novel. St. Martin Griffin, ISBN: 9780312556167 (May, 2009), 341 p., $14.95.

Lindsey Davis: The Course of Honor (USA 2003)

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For Romans, the career path to become a senator - "The Course of Honor" - is often strewn with betrayal and murder. But it has one unbreakable rule: A Roman senator cannot marry a slave, even a freed one. Caenis, a slave in the household of the mother of the emperor, Vespasian, who meets this young girl cooking in the imperial palace, soon gives her both his appetites and his soul. Yet Vespasian is destined for the imperial throne. And in a city of a thousand dark alleys and sybaritic feasts where rivals are dispatched with poison, Caenis is forbidden fruit, dangerous to know, and fatal to pursue... unless two lovers can somehow create a daring course of honor of their own.

Lindsey Davis: The Course of Honor. A Novel of Romantics Suspense. Mysterious Press, ISBN: 0446679666 (February, 2003), 327 p., $23.99.

Lindsey Davis: The Course of Honour (UK 1998)

From the Publisher:
The love story of the Emperor Vespasian, who brought peace to Rome after years of strife, and his mistress, the freed slave woman Antonia Caenis, this book recreates Ancient Rome's most turbulent period - the reigns of Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius and Nero, and Vespasian's rise to power. As their forbidden romance blossoms, she is embroiled in political intrigue, while he embarks on a glorious career. Years pass, then Vespasian risks all in the climatic struggle for power - bringing hope for Rome, but a threat to the relationship that has endured so long.

Lindsey Davis: The Course of Honour. Arrow, ISBN: 0099227428 (January, 1998), 342 p., £5.99.

Lindsey Davis: The Course of Honour (UK 1997)

From the Publisher:
This is the love story of the Emperor Vespasian and his mistress, Antonia Caenis. Ancient Rome's most turbulent period - the reigns of Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, and the Year of the Four Emperors - is encapsulated in this novel which tells the sweeping story of the ascendancy of the Emperor Vespasian, the impecunious son of a provincial senator who finally brought peace to Rome after years of strife. The story is seen through the eyes of Caenis, a woman slave working as a secretary for Antonia, Claudius' mother. She is a small footnote in the accounts of Roman historians, but here she is beautifully realised as the woman who exerted the greatest influence on the future Emperor.

As their strange and forbidden romance blossoms, Caenis finds herself involved in the discovery of Sejanus' plot against Tiberius, while Vespasian takes his first steps towards what she believes will be a glorious career. Years pass, yet they survive both prejudice and violent political events. Then Vespasian occupies a central role in the climactic struggle for power - bringing hope for Rome, but only despair for the woman who has loved him for so long.

Lindsey Davis: The Course of Honour. Century, ISBN: 0712677240 (February, 1997), 296 p., £15.99.