Scrounging around some old archives, I recently uncovered a stack of long-forgotten stone tablets hoarded by a Roman news junkie more than fifteen hundred years ago. For those readers not up on their ancient history, "Around the Empire" was the premier news organ of its day, bringing all the latest stories to the cognoscenti in every province. The tablets were pretty dusty but I was able to make out the headlines. Here they are:
Read all about these stories and more in The Flight of the Sorceress.
(April 410 A.D.)
SORCERESS FLEES PROBE INTO DEATHS OF MOTHER AND BABY
(August 410 A.D.)
RAPE AND PILLAGE! VISIGOTHS SACK ROME
(June 411 A.D.)
CHURCH RULES HUNDREDS OF BISHOPS ARE HERETICS
(April 415 A.D.)
DEATH OF NEOPAGAN PHILOSOPHER HYPATIA SPARKS RIOTS
(April 415 A.D.)
JEWS EXPELLED FROM ALEXANDRIA
Read all about these stories and more in The Flight of the Sorceress.
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