Part one of term paper
is set in Rome, 80 B.C. It is a warm spring morning when Gordianus starts his investigation on a crime. He lives in a large house, a little run down over the years since being passed down to him from his father. Himself, along with his one slave, Bethesda, an Egyptian woman usually sits in his big garden. The streets of Rome are where mos ...

Part two of term paper
... and then stays in the court to hear Cicero's great defense speech. Plot Gordianus, the one they call the "Finder" is summoned to the house of Cicero, a young advocate and orator who is preparing for his first important case. His client is a rural landowner, Sextus Roscius, who is accused of the unforgivable crime: the murder of his own father. Gordianus accepts the commission to investigate the crime, partially knowing the betrayal and conspiracy hidden beneath. The answers he needs, sends him ...