The Law of Wolves, by Stefano de Bellis

It will be up to Luperca, the kind she-wolf who suckled Romulus and Remus. The point is that the incontrovertible legend fits perfectly into a part of the vision of the Roman Empire as an implacable but organized culture, with an instinct for survival and even perpetuation. Because there was no other civilization as capable as the one that spread Rome through half the known world.

Under the passing of centuries and centuries of domination there are countless stories and new myths about emperors and conquests. The question is to want to gather information with which to overwhelm in gatherings or simply to enjoy novels that are beautifully staged and bring us closer to that notion of the everyday that supposes the true transcendence of the historical.

This time we go back to 80 BC. C. in which the Roman Empire had just begun its expansion and glory. But still we are offered in this plot a paradoxically dark vision, of a society like in any other era given to its moral convictions of removable and put. Under the great Rome, in addition to the catacombs that later arrived, there also coexisted that buried double standard where the philosophical proclamations of the first glimpses of light from the West paled for lack of fresh air.

There is no better place to present a suspense story, an authentic thriller that, thanks to that naturalization and early approach to the modus vivendi of both the vulgar and the privileged of those days, manages to bristle our skin as if from a novel with a journey through time. will try.

Thanks to stories like this one, we approach the official chronicles with a more complete perspective. Because the she-wolf suckled Romulus and Remus as much as she continued to suckle so many Romans who are fond of lupanares, Roman baths, wine ..., and veritas reserved for the most intimate circles. What happens in Rome does not come out of Rome. If Cicero, a character of characters in this story, will know ...

Only that all darkness and perversion of the moral of the moment has its undeniable dark side. Carnal pleasures and ambitions glided through the streets of Rome with their pestilential aroma of death and animosity. Thank God or Jupiter we also find those who trusted in morality and gave themselves to their tool of the law to try to prevent Rome from being an absolute riot.

Several themes open up to us as ramifications that point to the most unsuspected link. Multiple crimes with no apparent motivation on the one hand and accusations of heinous murders on the other. Life is worth much less than what Rome inspires. That is why it is easy to think of crime as revenge or as a way to get ahead. The stock market or life, the die is cast for the inhabitants of the capital of the ancient world.

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