![]() ![]() May is at her best when unencumbered by literary or historical precedent Claudia's sister, the unwilling Vestal Virgin Marcella, for example, is better realized than the shallowly rendered Caligula, and descriptions of Antioch and Caesarea are more compelling than those of well-known locations like Pompeii. Though blessed with the ability to see the future, Claudia never manages to prevent the tragedies she foresees. ![]() While Pilate busies himself with affairs of state (and those of the extramarital variety), Claudia chats with her Jewish slave Rachel, visits her gladiator lover Holtan, tangles with the conniving Empress Livia, dines at Herod's palace and attends Jesus' wedding. Six years later, Claudia marries the handsome and ambitious Pontius Pilate just before her family falls from imperial favor. Condition of Book/DJ: Very Good +/Very Good+ DJ. ![]() May imagines 14-year-old Claudia Procula living with loving parents and holding a secret devotion to the goddess Isis and a gift for seeing the future. Pilates Wife: A novel of the Roman Empire by May, Antoinette. ) turns to fiction to offer a privileged woman's view of religion, spirituality, sex and marriage in the time of Christ. Biographer and journalist May ( Adventures of a Psychic ![]()
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