Sigmund

Barbarians of Rome, Book Four

By: James Walker

Narrated by: Richard Newland

Philosopher Sigmund has found rare company as court writer and close friend to Caesar Julian. He is party to the intrigues of the imperial court, but he finds himself increasingly torn between his loyalty to Julian and the demands of his gentle conscience. Meanwhile, tensions are on the rise between Julian and his estranged cousin Emperor Constantius II.

Sigmund is the fourth novel in the Barbarians series of Ancient Rome. It has been two years since the Battle of Argentoratum, but threats to the Empire are only escalating. The Franks expand into Gaul, the Germans flood across the Rhine, and the Persian Empire has broken its ten-year truce. Julian may be cheered as the hero of the prosperous west, but his ascendance can only be a threat to the paranoid and embattled Emperor. Where will Sigmund stand if a prideful Julian drives Rome to civil war?

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