Lazarus is Dead (2012)
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The Romans know about Lazarus long before his return from the dead.
He is the friend of Jesus.
For at least a decade the Roman consul Sejanus has argued that knowledge should be treated as power. Legions alone will never be enough to control the empire, and Sejanus formalises the idea that information is intelligence. The Romans, for their own safety, need to collect and collate every available scrap of information.
Sejanus therefore invents two new categories of soldier, the... speculatores and the exploratores, and he attaches these units to the army. The exploratores are scouts. The speculatores are more like spies. They are licensed to listen and to think freely. Often they work out of uniform, but always with a clear objective: to identify and prevent unrest.
High in the Antonia Fortress, Cassius pulls aside a gauze curtain. He has flat blond hair and blue eyes, into which this far south nobody can read any meaning.MoreLess
The Romans know about Lazarus long before his return from the dead.
He is the friend of Jesus.
For at least a decade the Roman consul Sejanus has argued that knowledge should be treated as power. Legions alone will never be enough to control the empire, and Sejanus formalises the idea that information is intelligence. The Romans, for their own safety, need to collect and collate every available scrap of information.
Sejanus therefore invents two new categories of soldier, the... speculatores and the exploratores, and he attaches these units to the army. The exploratores are scouts. The speculatores are more like spies. They are licensed to listen and to think freely. Often they work out of uniform, but always with a clear objective: to identify and prevent unrest.
High in the Antonia Fortress, Cassius pulls aside a gauze curtain. He has flat blond hair and blue eyes, into which this far south nobody can read any meaning.MoreLess
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