Which Cacus Did Hercules Kill?
"Somewhat late to the Steven Saylor Roma (2007) bandwagon, I now can't get the story of Cacus and Hercules out of my mind. The Augustan writers had two traditions about Cacus, one that he was human (Livy and Dionysus) and the other that he was superhuman (Vergil, Ovid, Propertius)." Read all
Image of Heracles fighting Geryon. Side A from an Attic black-figure amphora, c. 540 B.C. at the Louvre. Marie-Lan Nguyen/Wikimedia Commons.
Irene's review of Roma: The Novel of Ancient Rome by Steven Saylor
