A Triumph for Flavius

<p><span style=color: rgba(128 128 128 1)>Ten-year-old Flavius had almost everything a boy could wish for. His parents belonged to the Roman aristocracy so they lived in a beautiful house almost as luxurious as a palace on top of Palatine Hill. Flavius went to the finest school where he was treated like a young prince and he had a new personal slave or pedagogue to carry his schoolbooks. He also felt his horse was the best in Rome.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(128 128 128 1)>Today the proudest day of his life young Flavius was riding that fine horse in the Triumph-a procession to honor his father who was returning as a conquering general from the wars in Greece. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(128 128 128 1)>Flavius did not know about the destruction that went with conquering or about the harsh treatment slaves could receive. But after his new Greek slave Ariphron becomes a friend as well as his pedagogue Flavius sees the other side of conquering and discovers a new kind of triumph.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(128 128 128 1)>With 57 pages of black and white illustrations by Cedric Rogers and the same pagination as the 1955 edition.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(128 128 128 1)>The father in this story was the famed Roman statesman and general Lucius Mummius born around 200-190 BC. He earned the surname Achaicus in honor of his victory over the Achaean League (a confederation of city-states) in Greece in 146 BC the year this story takes place.</span></p><p><br></p>