Medium Web / English
    Date Summer 2000
    Subject Caesars Druid / jacket notes english
       
    CELTIC WISDOM AGAINST ROMAN POWER
    58 B.C.: Without permission of the Roman senate, the completely indepted proconsul Gaius Julius Caesar breaks a brutal predatory war over Gaul. In these dangerous times of radical change the young Celt Korisios, who tries as an apprentice to become a druid, makes an escape from his war stricken home into the far off west, together with his pretty, but capricious Germanic slave Wanda.
    In the land of the Helvetians Korisios meets Caesar and enters as a scribe into his services. In a strange way the fate and the lives of Korisios and Caesar are tied together during Caesars ascend to triumphal victories since both of them are favourites of fortune. But one day they become exasperated rivals and Korisios is ready to sacrifice his life for the welfare of his people and the freedom of his beloved Wanda.
    "Caesar's Druid" is a powerful and lively painting of the time of the ancient Romans, full of passion and adventure, celtic rituals and quarrelling gods - brilliantly explored and thrilling like a crime.