A novel about the religious political intrigue surrounding Nero

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	• The Nero Prediction Humphry Knipe Process, 2005 - 280 pages average customer review:based on 7 reviews view larger image
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A Very Enjoyable Page Turner

I have always been a junkie for good historical fiction. Humphry Knipe did a splendid job of invoking a detailed and very real feeling Rome. The cat and mouse political intrigue described in this story will give you a terrifying view from the heights of Roman Aristocracy.
I truly loved this book.

Tight story & great history

For anyone who enjoys the historical fiction of Steven Saylor and his mystery novels of ancient Rome, you'll love this book!

It's really quite remarkable that this is Knipe's first novel. The story is tightly crafted; with an intricate and compelling weaving of the story-lines of several historical characters, plot elements and the astrology that drove them all. This combination makes for a gripping story that drives one from page to page.

Of particular interest to me is the fact that Knipe accomplishes all of this while at the same time illustrating a keen grasp of the historical facts and characters; from Nero and his predecessors as Caesar, to the powerful figures that served them. He even includes an interesting study of the possibility that Nero was the biblically prophesized Anti-Christ.

All in all, a fascinating read. One can only hope that Knipe will turn-out additional volumes of equal quality and interest!

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A novel about the religious political intrigue surrounding Nero

Set during 48 A.D., The Nero Prediction is a novel about the religious political intrigue surrounding Nero, in an era when Rome ruled the world and astrology allegedly ruled Rome. Agrippina, the niece of emperor Claudius and mother of the infant Nero, enlists the aid of Epaphroditus, a young slave, in a plot to protect herself from a prophecy that her own son would murder her. Yet when the fated time comes and the slave does not assassinate Nero as expected, Agrippina's own plots prove her destruction. As Nero becomes Caesar, he dreams of a Rome in which music, not military force, is power; yet such beliefs are heresy to apocalyptic Christians soon after "the Antichrist" Nero performs in public. Weaving threads of history into an ominous story of destiny and questioning whether Nero was truly a monster who fiddled while Rome burned or an artistic genius trapped in the role of Caesar, The Nero Prediction is an exciting and compelling read.

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Nero Gets It...

After a long line of books on my reading shelf, I finally got the chance to sit down and read "The Nero Prediction". I was expecting a good, intelligent read and was delivered much more. Not only does Mr. Knipe engross the reader in a realistic historical setting, but the character development is entirely impressive. I felt like I walked hand-in-hand with each character throughout the narrative.

The prose is rich and envelopes you in a lush, realistic environment where I found myself wanting to stay. I can't say which I'm more impressed with: the realism of feeling immersed in an ancient culture, or the intensive research that must have gone into creating the tone of the book. Nero delivers, and is nothing short of an impressive work of fiction.

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Very worth the read.

I personally am 75% of the way through this novel. It is well worth the read. It was recommended to me by my father, who at age 93 has sight that is failing, and uses a reader.

Dad dictated the following review that he asked that I post on Amazon:

"Humphry Knipe's book is so important that I have been making do with the reading machine's deficiencies, slow work but in this case very rewarding. There has been so little attention paid to Nero that the text is fascinating, and nearly every word of it is news to me. Knipe is to be congradualted on discovering a gold mine of information about Nero and presenting it in a remarkable way.

As I read the book I became more and more fascinated by Nero himself, as well as Knipe's presentation of him. He was evidently much more complicated a person than the one usually described to us. This is a completely new view of Nero, and one that is much more sympathetic.

This is wonderful and fills a gap in the knowledge of Nero."

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It is 48 AD, a time when Rome rules the world and astrologers rule Rome.

Agrippina, the emperor Claudius' niece, reads in the stars that someone born in Alexandria on July 19, 32 AD, is destined to help raise her son, the future emperor Nero, to the throne of the Caesars. This fated young man is Epaphroditus, a library slave and the book's narrator, who at the age of 16 is taken by force to Rome to serve young Nero.

Epaphroditus becomes Nero's confidant as the art-obsessed Caesar dreams of an age when music rules the world. After Nero performs his musical spectacles in public, apocalyptic Christians-believing him to be the antichrist-set Rome afire.

Revolutionary unrest strikes Rome, a fiery comet makes a foreboding appearance, and the young emperor makes a concert tour of Greece as enemies sprout like Hydra's heads. Epaphroditus, fortified by the return of his faith in astrology, discovers that he, Nero's protector, is fated to kill his Caesar.

Author Humphry Knipe's brilliant historical novel shakes the rafters of conventional belief about Nero and his Rome and the ancient science of astrology. As Michael Grant, the preeminent published expert on the Roman Empire, says: "The belief in astrology was so predominant in the Mediterranean world that it exceeded every religion in power and influence. I admire Humphry Knipe's ingenuity in weaving an imaginative and fascinating story around it in The Nero Prediction."

Miriam T. Griffin, the author of Nero: The End of a Dynasty, writes: "The Nero Prediction captures very imaginatively an aspect of ancient thinking that conventional scholarship ignores. . . . It contributes to understanding the ancient mental landscape."

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