In the historical, Julia Domna lived her glorious time as Roman Empress for eighteen years. In the literary it is Santiago Posteguillo who has recovered it to green those laurels (never better brought the laurel as a Roman symbol of victory par excellence), and incidentally make feminine a vindication from the very origins of our western culture.
First of all, the Planet award 2018 it would necessarily be an important accolade for Posteguillo to delve even further into its great protagonist in this already double saga with aspirations of an essential historical volume for lovers of the ancient world.
The glory of Julia, forged with that relentless struggle of the woman at the controls of an entire empire, came with the wise and also reckless conviction that only by letting herself be seen on dangerous fronts could she win the admiration of all. And so it happened.
But when the time comes to assert herself in power as something more than the consort, the shadow of the disease hangs over her with the evocation so close to our days of cancer.
However, the worst thing for Julia is to find her sons Caracalla and Geta irreconcilably confronted by a power that is not even hers yet. What makes her draw strength from weakness to try to stop a fratricidal struggle that can throw all her effort and dedication to the ground.
With breast cancer irrevocably spreading through her body, Julia feels at times the bitterest of defeats for her own life and for the future behind her. But ..., fate or chance of the gods, only a new impulse as intense as that of love can recover her for the most spirited of her battles.
Love as a lever with which to relaunch her last great attempt to give new horizons to the empire, before the twilight of her days takes her wherever she can reach; surpassing the providence of gods with whom she does not seem willing to negotiate her last beats of life.
You can now buy the novel «And Julia challenged the gods», the book by Santiago Posteguillo, here: