The Amber Road
Authors: Harry Sidebottom
Dr Harry Sidebottom
THE AMBER ROAD
A Warrior of Rome Novel
Contents
Prologue I:
Gallia Belgica
, AD262
Prologue II: The Island of Abalos in the Suebian Sea, AD263
Part One:
Oikoumene
, Spring AD264
I: The Town of Olbia to the North of the Black Sea
Part Two:
Anabasis
, Spring–Summer AD264
XI: The Estuary of the Hypanis and Borysthenes
XV: The Rapids on the Borysthenes River
XVII: The Headwaters of the Vistula River
Part Three:
Hyperborea
, Summer AD264
XXII: The Islet of Nerthus, South of Varinsey
XXVI: The Ouiadoua Bank off the Southern Shore of the Suebian Sea
XXVIII: The Inlet of Norvasund on the Cimbric Peninsula
Epilogue One:
Gallia Lugdunensis
, AD264
Epilogue Two:
The Island of Abalos in the Suebian Sea
, AD265
List of Roman Emperors of the Time of
The Amber Road
THE AMBER ROAD
Dr Harry Sidebottom teaches classical history at the University of Oxford, where he is a Fellow of St Benet’s Hall and a lecturer at Lincoln College. He has an international reputation as a scholar, having published widely on ancient warfare, classical art and the cultural history of the Roman Empire. Originally from Newmarket in Suffolk, he now lives with his wife and two sons in Fordham, near Ely.
The Amber Road
follows bestsellers
The Wolves of the North
,
The Caspian Gates
,
Fire in the East
,
King of Kings
and
Lion of the Sun
in the epic grand narrative Warrior of Rome – a story of empire, of heroes, of treachery, of courage, and most of all, a story of bloody, brutal warfare.
By the same author
WARRIOR OF ROME:
Fire in the East
King of Kings
Lion of the Sun
The Caspian Gates
The Wolves of the North
Ancient Warfare: A Very Short Introduction
To Peter Cosgrove and Jeremy Tinton
Maps and a Family Tree
The Himling Dynasty
MAP I
The Roman Empire in AD264
