CHAPTER 10
Imogene and AtheneIf he had thought Cumae was impressive compared to Trinovantum, Athens made Cumae appear no more than a small provincial town — and Trinovantum just a sprawling, untidy village.
When Bladud arrived in the great city early in the spring, almost immediately his eyes were drawn upwards to the sacred hill where gleaming white temples clustered high against an ineffably blue sky. Spreading out below, on the plain, were endless streets of wooden houses, clustered close together in greater numbers than he had ever seen before in any one place, yet wide roads in between allowed carts and chariots to pass by easily. Immediately below the sacred hill stood larger, public buildings of stone. Many were surrounded by shaded colonnades where people could walk and talk, awa
