Word: duggan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CHILDREN OF THE WOLF (283 pp.)-Alfred Duggan - Coward-McCann...
...mostly brigands and landless peasants, build the new city of Rome on the left bank of the Tiber, Romulus keeps on talking. He is, he assures them, the son of the war god Mars, and was suckled by a she-wolf as a baby. As presented by British Author Duggan, that veteran rewrite man of ancient history (Winter Quarters, King of Pontus), Rome's founder is a born con man, but one who believes his own line of patter...
Concentrating on Rome's first 40 years, about which virtually nothing is known beyond the legends handed down by Livy and Plutarch, Duggan sketches a fascinating if somewhat too breezily modern story. The Rome of 8th century B.C., as described by Duggan, sounds very much like a common European caricature of the 20th century U.S. Rome is slow to war. and quick to extend aid to an enemy once he has been beaten. Its conglomerate citizens-Latin farmers, Sabine hillmen, Etruscan renegades, Greek exiles-are swiftly shaped into a conforming whole; they dress and act alike and are fond...
King of Pontus, by Alfred Duggan. A rousing account of nine-lived old Warrior-King Mithridates...
King of Pontus, by Alfred Duggan. A rousing account of nine-lived old Warrior-King Mithradates, who vowed to unbuild Rome if it took all his days...