Chapters (80)
- Cover
- RAVES FOR LINDSEY DAVIS AND THE MARCUS DIDIUS FALCO SERIES
- THE FALCO SERIES BY LINDSEY DAVIS
- THE SILVER PIGS
- Dedication
- DRAMATIS
- PERSONAE
- CONTENTS
- AUTHOR’S INTRODUCTION
- AUTHOR’S INTRODUCTION TO NEW AMERICAN EDITION
- PART I
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- VII
- VIII
- IX
- X
- XI
- XII
- XIII
- XIV
- XV
- XVI
- XVII
- XVIII
- XIX
- PART II
- XX
- XXI
- XXII
- XXIII
- XXIV
- XXV
- XXVI
- XXVII
- XXVIII
- XXIX
- XXX
- XXXI
- XXXII
- XXXIII
- XXXIV
- XXXV
- XXXVI
- XXXVII
- PART III
- XXXVIII
- XXXIX
- XL
- XLI
- XLII
- XLIII
- XLIV
- XLV
- XLVI
- XLVII
- XLVIII
- XLIX
- L
- LI
- LII
- LIII
- LIV
- LV
- LVI
- LVII
- LVIII
- LIX
- LX
- LXI
- LXII
- LXIII
- LXIV
- LXV
- LXVI
- Copyright
| Marcus Didius Falco: | A private informer with republican views. |
| Falco’s Mother: | A mother; with views on everything. |
| Didius Festus: | Falco’s brother. A National Hero (deceased). |
| Marcia: | Aged 3. Falco’s brother’s child. |
| Petronius Longus: | Patrol Captain of the Aventine Watch. |
| Lenia: | A laundress. |
| Smaractus: | A property speculator; also the owner of a gladiators’ training school. |
PERSONAE
IN OTHER PARTS OF ROME
| Astia: | A drayman’s floosie. |
| Julius Frontinus: | A captain in the Praetorian Guard. |
| Glaucus: | A Cilician. Proprietor of a respectable gymnasium: an unusual character. |
| A hot-wine waiter: | (Pungent.) |
| A watchman: | (Drunk.) |
| A gardener’s horse: | (Disposition unknown.) |
IN BRITAIN
| Gaius Flavius Hilaris: | Imperial procurator in charge of finance; whose brief includes the silver mines. |
| Aelia Camilla: | The procurator’s wife, youngest sister of the senator Camillus Verus and his brother Publius. |
| Rufrius Vitalis: | An ex-centurion of the Second Augustan Legion, living in retirement at Isca Dumnoniorum. |
| T. Claudius Triferus: | (A Briton.) Holder of the contract to manage the Imperial silver mine at Vebiodunum in the Mendip Hills. |
| Cornix: | A sadist. Foreman in charge of slaves at the Imperial silver mine. |
| Simplex: | Medical officer to the Second Augustan Legion at Glevum (special interest: surgery). |
CONTENTS
AUTHOR’S INTRODUCTION
AUTHOR’S INTRODUCTION TO NEW AMERICAN EDITION
PART I: Rome
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI
CHAPTER XVII
CHAPTER XVIII
CHAPTER XIX
PART II: Britain
CHAPTER XX
CHAPTER XXI
CHAPTER XXII
CHAPTER XXIII
CHAPTER XXIV
CHAPTER XXV
CHAPTER XXVI
CHAPTER XXVII
CHAPTER XXVIII
CHAPTER XXIX
CHAPTER XXX
CHAPTER XXXI
CHAPTER XXXII
CHAPTER XXXIII
CHAPTER XXXIV
CHAPTER XXXV
CHAPTER XXXVI
CHAPTER XXXVII
PART III: Rome
CHAPTER XXXVIII
CHAPTER XXXIX
CHAPTER XL
CHAPTER XLI
CHAPTER XLII
CHAPTER XLIII
CHAPTER XLIV
CHAPTER XLV
CHAPTER XLVI
CHAPTER XLVII
CHAPTER XLVIII
CHAPTER XLIX
CHAPTER L
CHAPTER LI
CHAPTER LII
CHAPTER LIII
CHAPTER LIV
CHAPTER LV
CHAPTER LVI
CHAPTER LVII
CHAPTER LVIII
CHAPTER LIX
CHAPTER LX
CHAPTER LXI
CHAPTER LXII
CHAPTER LXIII
CHAPTER LXIV
CHAPTER LXV
CHAPTER LXVI
AUTHOR’S INTRODUCTION
Every author must treasure their first published book. Looking back now, it seems hard to recall how difficult it was at the end of the Nineteen Eighties to persuade publishers to accept the idea of popular fiction set in the Roman period. This was thought to be somehow “too difficult.” Only a certain kind of literary classic could be about the ancient world, and new novels about the remote past were seen as off-putting for modern readers. Nowadays that seems a snobbish and commercially foolish attitude, but then I was taking quite a risk. Like many innocent new authors, I refused to give up.