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The Roman
The Roman is a fiction novel by Mika Waltari published in written as a guide for his son, great-grandson of the Em-
1964. Set in Rome, the book is a sequel to The Secret of peror Claudius.
the Kingdom, a novel about the early days of Christianity. As usual, Mika Waltari has a good grasp of human na-
The protagonist and narrator is Minutus, the son of Mar- ture and of historical events, and can reproduce the feel
cus, the main character of the previous novel. Minutus is of ancient Rome and the Roman world.
a Roman citizen striving to survive without political en-
tanglements.
In the novel, he travels from Corinth to Britain, to
Plagiarism of the novel
Rome and then to Jerusalem. Through a boyhood friend- In July 2008, news emerged that the novel had been pla-
ship with Nero, he becomes a sometimes advisor, some- giarized by the tv-producer Colin Slater in his novel Lin-
times a tool, and sometimes a fool of the capricious em- dum Colonia, published in 2003.[1]
peror. A cruel fate makes him the commander of the
menagerie which supplied the wild animals that tore his
father and son to pieces, and the book was obstensibly
References
[1] yle.fi: Waltari-roman plagierades i USA (24.7.2008)
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