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Search The Seven Hills aka The Quirinal Hill Affair is a Historical Detective Fiction novel by Barbara Hambly set in Ancient Rome during the last years of Trajan's reign.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })Marcus Caius Silanus is a young Roman aristocrat disowned by his abusive father for studying philosophy. He is hanging around his old stomping grounds on the Quirinal Hill to catch a glimpse of his childhood friend and love who he has heard has been betrothed to another man - and sees her kidnapped by a clutch of nasty-looking characters, one of whom drops a small fish charm, which a horrified Marcus identifies as a symbol of the outlawed Christian cult. He knows he must rescue his love, Tertullia Vara, quickly before she is raped in an orgy or sacrificed to the Christians' god. Marcus enlists the aid of a reclusive old patrician nobleman, an expert in Eastern cults, and his household of intelligent and assertive slaves in a frantic 'search of the Seven Hills' of Rome that takes him from the (literal) underworld of weird alien cults to the even more corrupt upper levels of Roman society.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })
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As the Good Book Says...
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As the Good Book Says...: The Christians in their constant theological wranglings quote not only the canonical bible but non-canonical books as well.
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Armor-Piercing Question
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Armor-Piercing Question: As a philosopher Marcus seeks 'Truth and Beauty'. Arrius, the praetorian officer investigating Tertullia Vara's kidnapping asks "What if you found the Truth and it was ugly?"
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Arranged Marriage
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Arranged Marriage: Marcus seeks out Tertullia because he's just heard that she's been given by her father to a rich but vulgar Syrian.
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Aristocrats Are Evil
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Aristocrats Are Evil: Not all but many of the upper class characters have unpleasant hobbies and no scruples.
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Beneath the Earth
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Beneath the Earth: According to Sixtus you can go from one end of Rome to the other without showing your face above ground, and we see enough of the literal underworld to believe him.
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Abusive Parents
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Abusive Parents: Or rather parent, Marcus' father abuses his wife, his children and his slaves and eventually dies a karmic death from a stroke brought on by rage.
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Badass Bookworm
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Badass Bookworm: Sixtus is so this.
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