Classical Whodunits : Murder and Mystery from Ancient Greece and Rome - Hardcover Anthology

Set all over the sprawling classical world--from Athens to Alexandria, from Troy to ancient Britain--and spanning fifteen hundred years of Greek and Roman history, these twenty-one stories delve into murder and mayhem in gory and graphic detail.

Poison was the most expeditious way to dispose of a rival, but other devices worked just as well.  Worked, that is, until ancient wisdom--in the form of the classically trained sleuth--finally prevailed.  In "The Gateway to Death," Socrates finds equitable logic an infallible tool for catching a killer.  "A Pomegranate for Pluto" exposes the horrors of the reign of Caligula.  Other cases, such as the deaths of Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar, and the exile of the poet Ovid, are investigated by such hoary figures as Brutus, Epictetus, and even--because the gods always get in the game--the mighty Aphrodite.

Classical Whodunits exposes the venomous snakes lurking in the cradles of civilization.