Book summary/report

Andrew’s book report…

Book Report
The Eagles Have Flown
by J.S. Williamson

During 689 B.C. in the overcrowded city of Rome there was a boy named Lucius who lived in a small room above his father’s bakery. Young Lucius was only 6 when that summer his father died. However, his rich relative Lord Bibulus took him in and taught him how to ride a horse and fight and even signed him up in a school. One day when Lucius had a holiday he went to visit his friend Quintus Nero, but while he was there he made a new friend named Pylades. Soon Lord Bibulus died in a fight. His daughter, Lady Porcia, married Lord Brutus and he was the new master of the household. One day Lucius was feeling bored and decided to sneak into theater to visit his friend Pylades who was an actor. There he made friends with Polyena another actor. Also at school Lucius and his friend Rufus were treated to a trip to the baths by Marcus Agripa a well respected boy. Although . . . Lord Brutus was not happy.

By this time Lucius had many friends encluding Chloe a household servant. But he routinely got into fusses with her. Later on Caesar himself a close friend of Lord Brutus paid a visit but ended in a dispute; later on Lucius witnessed a large chaos that ended in Brutus murdering Caesar. This he told Lucius which he witnessed was to save the republic from a tyrant. Lord Brutus then retreated from Rome along with Lord Loginus and allied an army.

While young Octavius the rightful heir of Julius Caesar grouped an army to avenge his uncle’s death along with Marcus Antony; Lucius, Pylades, Quintus Nero, and Strato all friends fought along side each other and experienced the hardships of war under Lord Brutus. As Lord Brutus and Longinus controlled the east they fought at the battle of Philippi.

I enjoyed this book very much because of the adventure that was in it. I was interested in the type of life style they lived and their ways

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