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Lord of Emperors (2000)

by Guy Gavriel Kay

Series: The Sarantine Mosaic (2)

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Lord of Emperors
Original title
Lord of Emperors
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2000-02
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Caius Crispus
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Sarantium
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Epigraph
Timing and turning in a widening gyre . . .
Aut lux hic est, aut capta hic libera regnat.
Light was either born here or, held captive, here reigns free.

---Inscription in Ravenna, among the mosaics
I think that if I cold be given a month of Antiquity and leave top spend it where I chose, I would spend it in Byzantium a little before Justinian opened St. Sophia and closed the Academy of Plato. I think I could find in some little wine-shop some philosophical worker in mosaic who could answer all my questions, the supernatural descending nearer to him . . .

W.B. Yeats, A Vision
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For Sam and Matthew,
'the singing-masters of my soul.'

This belongs to them, beginning and end.
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Amid the first hard winds of winter, the King of Kings of Bassania, Shirvan the Great, Brother to the Sun and Moons, Sword of Perun, Scourge of Black Azal, left his walled city of Kabadh and journeyed south and west with much of his court to examine the state of his fortifications in that part of the lands he ruled, to sacrifice at the ancient Holy Fire of the priestly caste, and to hunt lions in the desert.
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813.54Literature › English (North America) › American fiction › 20th Century › 1945-1999

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PR9199.K39Language and Literature › English › English Literature › English literature: Provincial, local, etc.

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