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Eneas llega a Italia y se une al rey Latino. Ascanio funda Albalonga.
Rómulo y Remo nacen, crecen y ayudan a su abuelo Numitor a retomar el trono de Albalonga. Luego, fundan Roma.
Rómulo se encarga de crear un ejército, un Senado, y de conseguir mujeres para los romanos.
Los últimos años de Rómulo, y su legendaria muerte. Tambien, opiniones personales y comparaciones entre las historias de los EEUU, Argentina y Roma antigua.
Numa Pompilio es elegido como segundo rey de Roma. Numa crea el templo de Jano. La religion florece en la ciudad, y la paz reina suprema.
Tulo Hostilio, el tercer rey de Roma abandona la actitud de aquella Roma de Numa. Con él, Roma vuelve a la guerra. Los romanos destruyen Albalonga.
Anco Marcio, cuarto rey de Roma, intenta revivir la religion en la ciudad. Falla. A su muerte, comienzamos con la dinastia de los reyes Tarquinos.
Hijo de un refugiado. Conocedor de las matemáticas y de filosofía. Educado en Grecia. Despilfarrador y gran urbanista. Guerrero y dimplomático. Tarquinio "el viejo" fue de todo. Y hasta fue el primer rey de la dinastia Tarquinia de Roma.
009 - Asesinado por su propia hija
Ni murallas, ni censos, ni cambios en el ejército romano pudieron salvar al sexto rey romano Servio Tulio. Al final, su hija Tulia lo mató, por la más común de las razones, y con el más incomún de los acómplices.
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All my life I had two dreams and two dreams only.
China and writing.
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And although these two goals are as far apart as only stars in distant galaxies can be, they were close to me more often than not. Sometimes they stood in each other's way, and sometimes I stood in their way. But from a practical point of view, I kinda accomplished both already, with different degrees of success.
About China...
I live in China since 2010. I speak the language fairly well and I feel at home in China. I believe I am getting to understand this country in its broader strokes. However, I have never fooled myself to think one lifetime is enough to understand China as a whole. It takes much more than that to comprehend this land and its past, and I ain't no Marco Polo.
About writing...
I have written many articles, columns, blog and forum posts, short stories, exercise books and presentations in my life. By the tons.
And about creative writing, I am working on two novels which I hope to publish some day. But perhaps both works will just become practice until I am good enough at this. Until I write stuff that can actually be published. Here too, I have never fooled myself to think I can pen out one big, bad, breakout novel and hit the jackpot with it. It takes much more than that to comprehend writing, and I ain't no Dante Alighieri.
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Both my current works are historical fiction, which is by far my favorite genre.
Blue Lotus is set in the year 193 AD, a year now known as the "year of the five emperors."
With ancient Egypt (as part of the Roman empire) being the backdrop of the story, it narrates the life of Nadea, an imperial escort of a rare beauty whose heart is torn between the two men in her life: Romulus, a freed gladiator turned Christian, and Vitorius, an army general and conqueror whose main quest in life is to find and kill followers of Jesus.
Where Winds Learn to Fly is a story set in 1943, and begins on the day Italy turned against Nazi Germany, accelerating events that would lead to the end of WWII.
The novel depicts a tiny village in the remoteness of the Argentine Patagonia, and how two immigrants escaping Europe's misery—a German farmer and an Italian butcher, turn the lives of the villagers upside down. This is complicated by an American visitor whose mission is to impede nazis finding safe haven in Argentina and his Chinese wife who tries to find out about her own relatives, disappeared long time ago, when Chinese worked the railroad tracks in South America.
This novel should some day become part of the Winds series.
That is, if I happen to have the chops.
Cordially,
Abel A. Kay
Abel A. Kay
