HISTORICAL APOLOGIES AND ADDENDUMS
As I mentioned in the foreword, the trouble with this series is that I suffer an over-abundance of rich material: the Great Fire of Rome, the Judean War, the death of Nero, the Year of the Four Emperors, the fall of the Temple in Jerusalem, Masada, the building of the Colosseum, the eruption of Vesuvius, the inaugural games, and then the ending, the moment that inspired me in the first place. So I"ve carved each one into its own discrete episode, hoping to build with individual bricks the wall I could not create from a single slab.
While I chose to start with the Hebrew twins in STONE & STEEL, this book is not so much a sequel as a co-equal. There are a handful of references in here that won"t make much sense unless you"ve read the other one. But imagin
