Roman Orgy (The New Traveller's Companion) [Paperback]

Marcus van Heller (Author), John Stevenson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1, 2004 | Series: The New Traveller's Companion

Author van Heller is a legend among writers of erotic fiction, so good that his name and craft were often imitated, but never duplicated. Considered by many to be his finest work, Roman Orgy is a retelling of Spartacus. In this case, our hero is a servant, willful but submissive, until one day when Clodia, his master's wife, lures him into the baths, teases him, makes love to him... and then cries rape after the pair are found out. Forced to become a gladiator, Spartacus survives the coliseum, rallies his fellow men, and they rebel, successfully at first, wreaking their erotic vengeance on the townsfolk.

Product Details

• Paperback: 116 pages
• Publisher: olympiapress.com (August 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1596540982
• ISBN-13: 978-1596540989
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #911,478 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2.0 out of 5 stars Less than What I had Hoped for, August 15, 2011

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TammyJo Eckhart "TammyJo Eckhart" (Bloomington, Indiana United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Roman Orgy (The New Traveller's Companion) (Paperback)

There is good historical erotica out there; unfortunately this is not one of them.

True much of what we know about Spartacus is Roman fiction, an attempt by the elites to justify their defeats time and again to a slave army but van Heller goes well beyond the historical sources and creates a world of Spartacus' enslavement that is unlikely to have happened.

The sex and the people are brutal in this book, the Romans, the slaves, everyone. This becomes overwhelming leaving us with few characters to identify with. The sex descriptions are also fairly blunt, the main objective on every side to humiliate the one with less power.

The result is a disappointing book that also cannot fit neatly into the common categories of maledom or femdom, gay or lesbian. It's a free-for-all of nasty, nasty sex and violence.