Synopsis
The Medicus Codex = The Doctor’s Book
He came to Rome to study medicine with Galen. What he encountered was all the might and depravity of the Roman Empire in the early Third Century. This is his story.Aaron, a young medic, takes ship for Rome from impoverished Palestine. His goal to study with Galen, the greatest physician of his time. Right off the boat, he’s robbed of everything. Falling on the semiconscious Ezana the Ethiop, also assaulted, the two stumble out of town, They find a cart, but are jailed after they are accused of paying with forged coins. Aaron talks his way out of punishment by the magistrate, while Ezana confides a wonderful secret. Latinizing his name to Gaius Romulus, Aaron begins practicing medicine among the poor of the slums. He catches the eye of Galen, but due to a love triangle, one of Galen’s students bitterly despises Gaius Romulus. Galen dies; Gaius Romulus is framed for desecrating his corpse, a heinous crime. He’s sentenced to plantation slavery in Gallia. He meets Belisama, an enchanting mistress of plant lore. They must escape from the plantation soon, but how? The Medicus Codex takes the reader from the sustenance food and daily lifestyle of the Roman proletariat to the delicacies of the imperial kitchens, and from the poor’s fight for survival to the power struggles of the elite of the Empire, including the doings of one very sadly sexually confused teen-aged emperor named Elagabalus, mocked for his antics for the past 1800 years.
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