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Byzantium! is a novel written by Keith Topping. Released in 2001, it is the fourty-fourth novel in BBC Books' Doctor Who Past Doctor Adventures series and features the Doctor and companions travelling to Byzantium as all hell breaks loose.
Characters[]
- First Doctor
- Ian Chesterton
- Barbara Wright
- Vicki Pallister
- Gaius Calaphilus - a Roman general stationed in Byzantium
- Thalius Maximus - the praefectus of Byzantium
- Gemellus - advisor to Thalius Maximus
- Hieronymous - the leader of the Pharisees
- Antonia Vinicius - The ex-wife of Thalius Maximus and wife of Germanius Vinicius
- Georgiadis - a shopkeeper
- Evangeline - Georgiadis' wife
- Iola - Evangeline and Georgiadis' daughter
- Gabrielle - Hieronymous' daughter
- Damien - a potter
- Dorothea - Damien's wife
- Cressida - a Greek woman
- Fabius Actium - a tribune
- Fabulous - a librarian
- Erastus - a Roman cadet trainer
- Drusus Felinistius - a Roman soldier
- Crispianus Dolavia - a centurion
- Matthew Basellas - a Zealot
- Amos - a scribe
- Luke Panathaikos - a tax collector
- Jocelyn - a Roman
- Daniel - a Christian
- James - a Christian
- Hebron - a Christian
- Reuben - a scribe
- Ruth - an ex-Jew turned Christian
- Felicia - Jocelyn's handmaiden
- Papavasilliou - a friend of Georgiadis
- Phasaei - a Pharisee
- Simeon - a Zealot and the brother of Matthew Basellas
- Tobias - slave of Thalius Maximus
- Titus - a deputy of Hieronymous
- Yewhe - a Zealot
- Rebecca - wife of Simeon
- Bob and Julia Franklin - a husband-and-wife who frequently appear in Topping's novels
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Publisher's Summary[]
"Life is cheap in Byzantium. Life is cheap everywhere that the Romans are."
Byzantium. The imperial city — rising dramatically, as if by a trick of the light, from the peninsula of the Bosphorus and the Black Sea. Its domes and towers and minarets overlook a place of intrigue, lust, power, oppression, resistance and murder.
Romans, Greeks, Zealots, Pharisees ... all meet in the market squares of the great city, but mutual loathing and suspicion are rife.
Into this cauldron, the Doctor and his companions arrive, expecting to view the splendour and civilisation of the Roman Empire. But events cast them into a deadly maelstrom of social and political upheaval. In the eye of the hurricane they must each face the possibility of being stranded, alone and far from their own times, in an alien culture bunker.
Full Summary[]
Prologue: Once in a Lifetime[]
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Episode One: LXIV, and All That...[]
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See Also[]
- The Romans by Donald Cotton
Sources[]
- TARDIS Wiki
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