

At that time, no such novel seemed to exist-so I wrote it myself, taking as inspiration Cicero’s first big murder case, which involved a man accused of killing his father. Making contact with those ancient ruins electrified my imagination, and I found myself craving a murder mystery set in ancient Rome. Gwyn Morgan (who’s still teaching there), but I didn’t actually visit Rome until about ten years later. Steven Saylor: I studied Roman history at UT in Austin in the late 1970’s under M.

: What inspired you to write the series Roma Sub Rosa ? Here, the author reveals all that goes into creating the popular series.

He has now completed his tenth installment, A Mist of Prophecies. Murder, sex, political scandal, it’s all in there. For more than a decade he has been writing books that reveal the sordid side of the great city. Rome wasn’t built in a day and neither was Steven Saylor’s mystery series Roma Sub Rosa.
