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The Twelve Tables: A Novel of Ancient Rome
Hardcover
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"Part history lesson, part love story, and part coming-of-age tale, this stimulating novel is likely to have wide-ranging appeal." -Kirkus Reviews
The blood of the bulls on Jupiter's hill gave them liberty-the words graven unto these Twelve Tables made them equal.
ROME, 462 BC. To save his family's failing farm, sixteen-year-old Marcus Atilius is sold into debt servitude by his own father. Plunged into the city's underbelly, Marcus must endure a world of cutthroat trading stalls and gritty wa...