After Octavian defeated Cleopatra and Mark Antony at the Battle of Actium and seized control of Egypt, he returned to Rome in triumph, made himself emperor, and changed his name to Augustus. Unsatisfied with Egypt, which was a crucial source of foodstuffs for the expanding Roman Empire, Augustus set his sights on the gold-rich Nubian lands of the upper Nile. He sent three legions to Egypt and ordered his prefect there to seize Nubia.
What the Romans failed to take into account was that the people of Kush, unlike their Egyptian neighbors to the north, did not meekly surrender in the face of Rome’s might. Nubia, known as Ta-Seti (Land of the Bow) to the Egyptians and Kush to those who lived there, was a kingdom of warriors, male and female. When its king was killed in an early battle with the Romans, his queen, a warrior who had lost an eye in the same battle, took the throne. Amanirenas, the one-eyed Nubian warrior queen, is more than the Romans bargained for. Between warriors who refuse to bend a knee to Rome’s might, and the harsh, unforgiving desert, Rome might have finally met its match.
Genre: Thriller
What the Romans failed to take into account was that the people of Kush, unlike their Egyptian neighbors to the north, did not meekly surrender in the face of Rome’s might. Nubia, known as Ta-Seti (Land of the Bow) to the Egyptians and Kush to those who lived there, was a kingdom of warriors, male and female. When its king was killed in an early battle with the Romans, his queen, a warrior who had lost an eye in the same battle, took the throne. Amanirenas, the one-eyed Nubian warrior queen, is more than the Romans bargained for. Between warriors who refuse to bend a knee to Rome’s might, and the harsh, unforgiving desert, Rome might have finally met its match.
Genre: Thriller
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