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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.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. | |
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Scary Amoral Religion | |
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Scary Amoral Religion: What Christianity looks like to Romans. | |
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God Before Dogma | |
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God Before Dogma: The Christians avert this by arguing their complex and competing dogmas at every opportunity. | |
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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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Deity of Human Origin: The Romans - and Jews - in the book have trouble grasping how an executed carpenter can be God. The Christians' constant arguments over the question does not help. | |
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Love-Obstructing Parents | |
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Love-Obstructing Parents: Marcus and Tertullia are childhood playmates from families of similar status and wealth. They should have no problem pairing off, but unfortunately their fathers quarreled and are now bitter enemies. | |
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Hope Is Scary | |
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Hope Is Scary: Marcus feels it would be a relief to give way to despair over his kidnapped love interest, as 'hope is exhausting', but Sixtus won't let him. | |
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High Priest | |
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High Priest: Finding the High Priest of the Christians, called 'Papa', becomes a priority for Marcus. Papa turns out to be closer than Marcus' thinks. | |
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Too Important to Walk | |
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Too Important to Walk: Fancy litters with good looking heavily muscled matched bearers are a real status symbol in Rome. | |
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The Hermit | |
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The Hermit: Sixtus Claudius Julianus has been playing hermit in his deteriorating mansion on Quirinal Hill since Marcus and Tertullia were young children. | |
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Gladiator Games | |
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Gladiator Games: Tertullia Vara's kidnapping is assumed to be revenge by the Christians on her father for burning some of their co-religionists at games he gave some years before. | |
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Impoverished Patrician | |
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Impoverished Patrician: Sixtus looks like this but isn't. Marcus' only income is a small allowance from his disgruntled father and the villain is living WAY over his income. | |
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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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Heaven Seeker | |
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Heaven Seeker: At least one of the Christians is actively seeking martyrdom as a direct road to Glory (Truth in Television for many then). | |
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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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Happiness in Slavery | |
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Happiness in Slavery: Sixtus' several slaves have been offered their freedom time and again but prefer to stay with him. As Marcus gets to know Sixtus better he thinks he understands why. | |
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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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Nobility Marries Money | |
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Nobility Marries Money: The reason for Tertullia Vara's engagement to a 'greasy' Syrian merchant. | |
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