Start with this first volume, a saga really a must for lovers of the historical reconstruction of ancient Rome. A work that the roots of the "Franco-Belgian" lands beyond the Alps with the format "100% Panini Comics" here in Italy, plus the very good author - Enrico Marini - is the Swiss-Italian. It is this duality of the author will be reflected somehow in the history of the two protagonists of this tale of the past: interesting, serious and well-structured, with peaks of a good reconstruction of historical, artistic and social. The retrospective of a world that no longer exists, but that fascinates millions of people around the world today and whose traditions are in a sense maintained in these countries we now call "the West" and in which they are calling the evolution of those Ancient Romans, for the Italians in particular, represent the roots of our national being more remote.
Marini immerses us in the early Imperial Rome at the turn of the sec.aC and AD, we witness the great change that the first princeps Empire has implemented, saving us from certain end, the great Roman power. A radical change to the heights of power and unusual for Rome at the end of the Republic.
Within this period - in this first volume we are talking about Italian 9a.C. - 9d.C. - Meet two handsome young boys, the son of a Roman legionary awarded: Marco Valerio Falco and a prince Germanic Ermanamer. The latter was taken as a prisoner and as an important pawn for the political alliance between Rome and his tribe Barbara, one of Cherusci for which will change its name - Julius Arminius - and learn to live like a Roman. The two young men, and rivalries between various events will be forced to become friends and comrades in training and in the Roman military discipline, sharing their lives. The training will be hard and accurately and put the characters in full view of the two men, making us discover their weaknesses and their virtues, in a Rome man who claims a specific system behavior - at least in appearance and in accordance with the rules of Mos maiorum - and rewards our two heroes with honor and glory in Cursus Honorum , but that does not reward Fortuna ...
We will see plots, the glory and decay, perfidy, and hatred with love, strength and boldness of spirit, lust, power and order, friendship and brotherhood, tradition, but especially the lives of two men of a different genealogy and territory, but united by a specific element: their desires, which are those which are still ones that move the people to follow their own destiny, a destiny that will bring Mark and Arminius or perhaps to meet again to clash? ---
VOL.1 THE EAGLES OF ROME - THE BLOOD BROTHERS
History, designs and colors: Enrico Marini;
Panini Comics
120pag., Col.; Col.con cover flap; € 14.00;
www.paninicomics.it
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History, designs and colors: Enrico Marini;
Panini Comics
120pag., Col.; Col.con cover flap; € 14.00;
www.paninicomics.it
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