Or you might be able to figure it out from the clues. If you have read The Ides of April, you may be surprised to find out who Xenos really is. Together, each one tries to find his identity. But young Philo is befriended by Xenos and learns from him the art of the scribe. Conan must abandon his studies and eventually joins the Roman army. Nicanor hates the Romans, so he leaves, goes to Macherus, and joins the Jewish rebels holding out there.
Apollodorus owes a great deal of money to Paulinus the banker, so the boys are left penniless and must rent out their home to Roman soldiers for army headquarters. On a subsequent trip, Apollodorus and Esdras are killed by robbers. Philo helps to nurse the wounded stranger back to health and, because the man seems to have lost his memory, names him “Xenos,” meaning guest. One day, when Apollodorus and his steward Esdras return from a trip, they have rescued a man who had been captured by the Romans and staked out in the hot sun to die near Macherus, and bring him back with them. Their half-Jewish mother had died when Philo was quite young. His father Apollodorus is a merchant, and he has two older brothers, Conan, eighteen, who is studying to be a lawyer, and Nicanor, seventeen, who works at their cousin Chares’s farm outside of town. Philo (Philokles) is a young teenaged boy who lives at Philadelphiano, not in Pennsylvania, nor even in Asia Minor (Revelation chapter 3) but the one formerly called Rabbath-Ammon in Old Testament times (now known as Amman, Jordan) which was one of the Greek cities of the Decapolis in first-century Palestine. This book is advertised as the “sequel to The Ides of April, although there is another book which comes between the two in author Mary Ray’s “Roman Empire Sequence” of five books.
Beyond the Desert Gate (originally published in 1977 republished in 2001 by Bethlehem Books, 10194 Garfield St. Language level: 1 (nothing objectionable)įor more information e-mail Mary.
Publisher: Bethlehem Books, republished in 2001
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