Threshold of Fire: a novel of fifth century Rome

It is 414 A.D. and the once-powerful Roman Empire is in its death throes — split between East and West, menaced by barbarian hordes almost literally at its gates. The Emperor Honorious cowers in the marsh-bound city of Ravenna, where he has moved the government. There is the Prefect Hadrian, a powerful official and fanatical Christian convert; Marcus Anicius, the pagan aristocrat who is clinging to a dyping past, and the Jew Eliezar ben Elijah, hemmed in by his own traditions and burdened by his dark vision of the future.

• Author
• Hella S. Haasse

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 255

• Publisher
• Academy Chicago Publishers

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780897334266

• Genres
• fiction, literature, classics

• Release date
• 2005