Gordianus must prove the innocence of an athlete suspected of murder. In Halicarnassus they visit the fabled Mausoleum, and Gordianus gets acquainted with two widows suspected of murdering their husbands.Īt Olympia the two watch the 172nd Olympiad, and see the magnificent statue of Zeus. Gordianus and Antipater visit the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, where Gordianus investigates the mysterious death of a young girl during a sacred procession honoring the goddess Artemis. Prelude in Rome: The Dead Man Who Wasn't Īfter Gordianus celebrates his 18th birthday, he leaves Rome to travel to the seven wonders of the ancient world in the company of his tutor, the poet Antipater, who has faked his death with the help of Gordianus' father in order to escape the attentions of the Roman authorities.
The backdrop of the novel is the brewing conflict between Rome and Mithridates VI of Pontus. Along the route he gets entangled in several mysteries and murders that he helps solve, while he is starting to suspect that an even more sinister conspiracy is unfolding around him. Now he sets out on the journey of a lifetime, traveling with his teacher and friend Antipater of Sidon to see the seven wonders of the world. The young Gordianus is eighteen years old, and has just become a man. The novel is made up of a series of connected short stories, and the main character is the Roman sleuth Gordianus the Finder.
It is the thirteenth book in his Roma Sub Rosa series of mystery stories set in the final decades of the Roman Republic, although it is chronologically the first. The Seven Wonders is a historical novel by American author Steven Saylor, first published by St.
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