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John Maddox Roberts

Index John Maddox Roberts

John Maddox Roberts (born June 25, 1947 in Ohio) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy novels, including historical fiction, such as the ''SPQR'' series and Hannibal's Children. [1]

69 relations: A Point of Law, Achillas, Ancient Carthage, Aquilonia (Conan), Baiae, Bestia (family), Caecilius Metellus, Catiline, Charun, Cicero, Clodia Pulchra (wife of Metellus), Conan (books), Conan and the Amazon, Conan and the Manhunters, Conan and the Treasure of Python, Conan the Barbarian, Conan the Bold, Conan the Champion, Conan the Marauder, Conan the Relentless, Conan the Rogue, Conan the Valorous, Crom (fictional deity), Cultural depictions of Hannibal, Decius Metellus, Down These Strange Streets, Fiction set in ancient Rome, Gaius Ateius Capito (tribune), Hannibal's Children, Harold Shea, Historical mystery, Hypothetical Axis victory in World War II, John Roberts (disambiguation), List of alternate history fiction, List of cultural depictions of Cleopatra, List of Dragonlance novels, List of Dragonlance novels, chronological by author, List of Dungeons & Dragons fiction, List of fictional politicians, List of fictional Romans, List of Forgotten Realms novels, List of people with surname Roberts, List of works by Fred Saberhagen, Livia, Maddox (surname), Marcus Tullius Tiro, Mithridates VI of Pontus, Murder in Tarsis, Past Poisons, Pompey, ..., Publius Clodius Pulcher, Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius, Rex Sacrorum, Richardson High School, Richardson, Texas, SPQR, SPQR series, Stars and planetary systems in fiction, Suburra, Surena, Tanit, The Enchanter Reborn, The Seven Hills, The Temple of the Muses, The Tribune's Curse, The Triumph of Caesar, Titus Annius Milo, Yoji Kondo, 56th World Science Fiction Convention. Expand index (19 more) »

A Point of Law

A Point of Law is a 2006 novel by John Maddox Roberts.

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Achillas

Achillas (Ἀχιλλᾶς) was one of the guardians of the Egyptian king Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator, and commander of the king's troops, when Pompey fled to Egypt in 48 BC.

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Ancient Carthage

Carthage (from Carthago; Punic:, Qart-ḥadašt, "New City") was the Phoenician state, including, during the 7th–3rd centuries BC, its wider sphere of influence, known as the Carthaginian Empire.

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Aquilonia (Conan)

Aquilonia is a fictional country created by Robert E. Howard for the fictional character Conan the Barbarian, who eventually becomes its king.

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Baiae

Baiae (Baia; Baia) was an ancient Roman town situated on the northwest shore of the Gulf of Naples, and now in the comune of Bacoli.

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Bestia (family)

Bestia is the name of a family in ancient Rome, of which the following were the most distinguished.

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Caecilius Metellus

The Caecilii Metelli, one of the most important and wealthy families in the Roman Republic, came of noble (although plebeian, not patrician) stock.

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Catiline

Lucius Sergius Catilina, known in English as Catiline (108–62 BC), was a Roman Senator of the 1st century BC best known for the second Catilinarian conspiracy, an attempt to overthrow the Roman Republic and, in particular, the power of the aristocratic Senate.

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Charun

In Etruscan mythology, Charun (also spelled Charu, or Karun) acted as one of the psychopompoi of the underworld (not to be confused with the lord of the underworld, known to the Etruscans as Aita). He is often portrayed with Vanth, a winged goddess also associated with the underworld.

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Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero (3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, orator, lawyer and philosopher, who served as consul in the year 63 BC.

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Clodia Pulchra (wife of Metellus)

Clodia (born Claudia, c. 95 or 94 BC), nicknamed Quadrantaria, and occasionally referred to in scholarship as Clodia Metelli ("Clodia the wife of Metellus"), was one of three known daughters of the ancient Roman patrician Appius Claudius Pulcher and either Caecilia Metella Balearica, or her cousin, Caecilia Metella daughter of Lucius Caecilius Metellus Diadematus.

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Conan (books)

The Conan books are sword and sorcery fantasies featuring the character of Conan the Cimmerian originally created by Robert E. Howard.

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Conan and the Amazon

Conan and the Amazon is a fantasy novel by American writer John Maddox Roberts, featuring Robert E. Howard's sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian.

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Conan and the Manhunters

Conan and the Manhunters is a fantasy novel by American writer John Maddox Roberts, featuring Robert E. Howard's sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian.

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Conan and the Treasure of Python

Conan and the Treasure of Python is a fantasy novel by American writer John Maddox Roberts, featuring Robert E. Howard's sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian.

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Conan the Barbarian

Conan the Barbarian (also known as Conan the Cimmerian) is a fictional sword and sorcery hero who originated in pulp-fiction magazines and has since been adapted to books, comics, several films (including Conan the Barbarian and Conan the Destroyer), television programs (cartoon and live-action), video games, role-playing games, and other media.

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Conan the Bold

Conan the Bold is a fantasy novel by American writer John Maddox Roberts, featuring Robert E. Howard's sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian.

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Conan the Champion

Conan the Champion is a fantasy novel by American writer John Maddox Roberts, featuring Robert E. Howard's sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian.

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Conan the Marauder

Conan the Marauder is a fantasy novel by American writer John Maddox Roberts, featuring Robert E. Howard's sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian.

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Conan the Relentless

Conan the Relentless is a fantasy novel by American writer Roland Green featuring Robert E. Howard's sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian.

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Conan the Rogue

Conan the Rogue is a fantasy novel written by John Maddox Roberts featuring Robert E. Howard's sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian.

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Conan the Valorous

Conan the Valorous is a fantasy novel by American writer John Maddox Roberts, featuring Robert E. Howard's sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian.

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Crom (fictional deity)

Crom is a fictional deity in Robert E. Howard's fantasy tales of the Hyborian Age.

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Cultural depictions of Hannibal

This page lists the cultural depictions of Hannibal, a Carthaginian general.

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Decius Metellus

Decius Caecilius Metellus the Younger is a fictional character created by author John Maddox Roberts, the protagonist of Roberts's ''SPQR'' series of historical mystery novels.

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Down These Strange Streets

Down These Strange Streets is an urban fantasy anthology edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois and released on October 4, 2011.

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Fiction set in ancient Rome

If you know of works set in the pre-Republican era, please expand this section.

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Gaius Ateius Capito (tribune)

Gaius Ateius Capito was a tribune of the plebs in 55 BC.

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Hannibal's Children

Hannibal's Children is a 2002 alternate history novel by American writer John Maddox Roberts.

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Harold Shea

The "Harold Shea" Stories is a name given to a series of five science fantasy stories by the collaborative team of L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt and to its later continuation by de Camp alone, Christopher Stasheff, Holly Lisle, John Maddox Roberts, Roland J. Green, Frieda A. Murray, Tom Wham, and Lawrence Watt-Evans.

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Historical mystery

The historical mystery or historical whodunit is a subgenre of two literary genres, historical fiction and mystery fiction.

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Hypothetical Axis victory in World War II

A hypothetical Axis victory in World War II is a common concept of alternative history and counterfactual history.

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John Roberts (disambiguation)

John Roberts (born 1955) is the seventeenth Chief Justice of the United States.

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List of alternate history fiction

This is a list of alternate history fiction, sorted by type.

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List of cultural depictions of Cleopatra

Cleopatra has been the subject of literature, films, plays, television programs, and art.

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List of Dragonlance novels

This is a list of the published novels set in the fantasy world of Dragonlance, which was originally created as a setting for the Dungeons & Dragons tabletop role-playing game.

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List of Dragonlance novels, chronological by author

This is a list of the published novels set in the fantasy world of Dragonlance, which was originally created as a setting for the Dungeons & Dragons tabletop role-playing game.

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List of Dungeons & Dragons fiction

This is a list of Dungeons and Dragons fiction in the form of novels and short stories.

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List of fictional politicians

This is a list of political office holders from works of fiction.

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List of fictional Romans

This article is a list of fictional characters in written fiction and other forms of media set during the period of the Roman Republic and/or the Roman Empire.

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List of Forgotten Realms novels

This is a list of fantasy fiction novels based in the role-playing game setting of the Forgotten Realms.

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List of people with surname Roberts

Roberts is a surname of English origin.

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List of works by Fred Saberhagen

This is complete list of works by American science fiction and fantasy author Fred Saberhagen.

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Livia

Livia Drusilla (Classical Latin: Livia•Drvsilla, Livia•Avgvsta) (30 January 58 BC – 28 September 29 AD), also known as Julia Augusta after her formal adoption into the Julian family in AD 14, was the wife of the Roman emperor Augustus throughout his reign, as well as his adviser.

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Maddox (surname)

Maddox is a name of Irish and Welsh origins.

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Marcus Tullius Tiro

Marcus Tullius Tiro (died c. 4 BC) was first a slave, then a freedman of Cicero.

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Mithridates VI of Pontus

Mithridates VI or Mithradates VI (Μιθραδάτης, Μιθριδάτης), from Old Persian Miθradāta, "gift of Mithra"; 135–63 BC, also known as Mithradates the Great (Megas) and Eupator Dionysius, was king of Pontus and Armenia Minor in northern Anatolia (now Turkey) from about 120–63 BC.

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Murder in Tarsis

Murder in Tarsis is a fantasy novel by John Maddox Roberts, set in the world of the Forgotten Realms, and based on the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game.

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Past Poisons

Past Poisons: An Ellis Peters Memorial Anthology of Historical Crime is a 1998 British anthology of historical mystery short stories and novellas, edited by Maxim Jakubowski.

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Pompey

Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (29 September 106 BC – 28 September 48 BC), usually known in English as Pompey or Pompey the Great, was a military and political leader of the late Roman Republic.

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Publius Clodius Pulcher

Publius Clodius Pulcher (c. December 93 BC – 52 BC, on January 18 of the pre-Julian calendar) was a Roman politician.

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Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius

Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius (c. 130 BC – 63 BC) was a pro-Sullan politician and general who was Roman consul in 80 BC.

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Rex Sacrorum

In ancient Roman religion, the rex sacrorum ("king of the sacred", also sometimes rex sacrificulus, " offerings made by the king") was a senatorial priesthood reserved for patricians.

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Richardson High School

Richardson High School (RHS) is a magnet high school in Richardson, Texas, United States with approximately 2,727 students and a student/teacher ratio of 14.5 in the 2016-2017 school year.

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Richardson, Texas

Richardson is a principal city in Dallas and Collin counties in the U.S. state of Texas.

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SPQR

SPQR is an initialism of a phrase in ("The Roman Senate and People", or more freely as "The Senate and People of Rome"), referring to the government of the ancient Roman Republic, and used as an official emblem of the modern-day comune (municipality) of Rome.

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SPQR series

The SPQR series is a collection of historical mystery stories by John Maddox Roberts, published between 1990 and 2010, and set in the time of the Roman Republic.

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Stars and planetary systems in fiction

The planetary systems of stars other than the Sun and the Solar System are a staple element in many works of the science fiction genre.

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Suburra

Suburra (usually spelled Subura in antiquity) was an area of the city of Rome, Italy located below the Murus Terreus on the Carinae.

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Surena

Surena or Suren (died 53 BC) was a Parthian spahbed ("General" or "Commander") during the 1st century BC.

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Tanit

Tanit was a Punic and Phoenician goddess, the chief deity of Carthage alongside her consort Baal-hamon.

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The Enchanter Reborn

The Enchanter Reborn is an anthology of five fantasy short stories edited by American writers L. Sprague de Camp and Christopher Stasheff, the first volume in their continuation of the Harold Shea series by de Camp and Fletcher Pratt.

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The Seven Hills

The Seven Hills is a 2005 alternate history novel by American writer John Maddox Roberts, a sequel to his 2002 novel Hannibal's Children.

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The Temple of the Muses

The Temple of the Muses is a novel by John Maddox Roberts.

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The Tribune's Curse

The Tribune's Curse is a novel by John Maddox Roberts.

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The Triumph of Caesar

The Triumph of Caesar is a historical mystery novel by American author Steven Saylor, first published by St. Martin's Press in 2008.

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Titus Annius Milo

Titus Annius Milo Papianus was a Roman political agitator.

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Yoji Kondo

was a Japanese-born American astrophysicist who also wrote science fiction under the pseudonym Eric Kotani.

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56th World Science Fiction Convention

BucConeer was the 56th World Science Fiction Convention, held in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, on August 5–9, 1998.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maddox_Roberts

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