Aurelian

A historical novel in letters by the American writer William Ware, published in 1838 as a sequel to “Zenobia”. In Rome, after the fall of Palmyra, the nobleman Lucius Manlius Piso writes to his friend Fausta, who has stayed in the East. He tells her about Queen Zenobia, defeated and exiled at Tibur, and about the Emperor Aurelian, a feared warrior who resolves to crush the Christians. Piso, husband of Julia, Zenobia’s daughter, himself already shares this new faith. A vivid picture of third-century Rome and of the clash between two religions.