
A Rooster for Asklepios
A Slave's Story, Book 1 (A Slave’s Story Trilogy)
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Keith Edward Gerhard II
What if you suddenly discovered that you were not who you thought you were - that your true family history had been hidden from you since birth? What if the truth about your origins would cause others to despise you? What if the man who had arranged the deception was seriously ill and needed your help? What if you were a slave and that man held your life in his hands - and you his?
These are some of the questions examined in the first two volumes of the new historical trilogy A Slave’s Story.
A Rooster for Asklepios centers on Marcus, a slave in the household of Lucius Coelius Felix who enjoys a better life than most slaves (and many free citizens) as the secretary and accountant of a wealthy aristocrat. His master is rising in the civic hierarchy of the Roman colony of Antioch-near-Pisidia (Central Turkey), and his responsibilities and income are growing as well. If this continues, he could soon earn enough to buy his freedom, set up a small business, maybe even marry.
Then disaster strikes, and his master falls into a deep depression that is exacerbated by a nagging illness that his physician seems unable to heal. The future looks bleak until the physician receives a dream in which the healing god Asklepios seems to be calling Lucius to journey hundreds of miles across Western Asia Minor to his sanctuary at Pergamon for treatment and, if all goes well, a cure.
Accompanied by Marcus and his new wife, Selena, Lucius embarks on a long and eventful journey in which both master and slave encounter people and ideas that challenge long-held beliefs about themselves, their society, and the world around them. Values are questioned, loyalties tested, and identities transformed in a story that brings to life a corner of the Roman world that has been neglected by previous storytellers.
Christopher D. Stanley is a professor who studies and writes about the social and religious history of the Greco-Roman world, with special attention to early Judaism and Christianity.
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This is a long book, some twenty two hours in length, so it needs a good narrator to succeed. Keith Edward Gerhard is good, with well modulated speech, good pacing and clear pauses in the text where required - no merging into the next unrelated paragraph, or even chapter, without a break which, sad!y, does sometimes happen. So, a nice presentation plus well differentiated voices for all of the characters when in conversation: an excellent performance. However, for this reader it was overly fast for comfortable listening but playback at 0.9 instantly resolved that small difficulty (even increasing the story length by an extra couple of hours).
A Rooster for Asklepios is a book to curl oneself into, to savour and live within. It is so packed with detail it could become tedious, but instead it brings everything into glorious life. I was very fortunate in being freely gifted with a complimentary copy by the rights holder, at my request, via Audiobook Boom. Thank you so much. Not for someone wanting a fast paced action romp, But for the enjoyment of immersion in a time long past, with strong characters brought to life again, and a plausible story with a hint of mystery, this book is highly recommended. A second book, A Bull for Pluto, follows and I look forward to it with impatience
"The lot of a slave is a sorry one."
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Clearly well-researched and engagingly written (as the story moves along), this is a book for those interested in Roman history of the early imperium, in early Jewish and Christian experience in the Greco-Roman world, in 'pagan' religious belief and practice, in the geography of the Anatolian Peninsula, and much more.
Admittedly, it begins with a "slow burn," but after halfway through, when the characters finally being their journey, interest increases, and one begins to become invested in the outcome of the characters' resolutions to their various conflicts.
I am looking forward to seeing how things turn out in "A Bull for Pluto."
An excellent immersion into Roman Asia Minor
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I am impressed with the attention to detail that is embedded in the story.
While some may quibble about too much detail, I, for one, find it immensely helpful.
Kudos to Stanley for providing an excellent work that I have commended to my students, who are studying the New Testament. It is a pleasant way to provide cultural background in contrast to the sometimes mind-numbing ways such information can be treated!~
Excellent immersion into the ancient world
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Amazing Story!
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The narrator was amateur with a disjointed flow, subpar character voicing, and inconsistently switching between characters' voices in conversation. He improved as the story progressed, but I'm not sure if I just grew accustomed to him after 10+ hours. I only finished the book because I paid a credit for it.
Educational but Subpar
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An accurate historical fiction
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Will try to return.
A real "stinker"
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