I always enjoy history brought back to life with skill and verve. As mentioned last week in the “Vampire Boy” post, this series has to do with an ancient murder mystery, and the two unusual immortals that survived it, two millennia later.


https://www.bedetheque.com/media/Planches/PlancheS_15366_241668.jpg

145 AD. Lucius Aurelius Cassio, one of the richest and most influential men in Rome, is the victim of a conspiracy. In the heart of his own home, four masked assassins stab him with their daggers. Nearly two thousand years later, the investigation begins. Archaeologist Ornella Grazzi discovers scrolls in Cassio’s hand. She seeks, page after page, to reveal the faces of the four murderers. And soon, a strange, powerful figure slowly emerges from the past. Cassio. His death. And his revenge. --BDT


https://www.bedetheque.com/media/Versos/Verso_62853.jpg


https://www.bedetheque.com/media/Couvertures/Couv_62853.jpg

The series is eight tomes long, and I found it quite unique and enjoyable. The history and action sometimes jumps from modern to ancient and vice-versa, which can be a little confusing at times, but overall I think it hangs together well and rewards the reader paying attention.


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https://www.bedetheque.com/media/Couvertures/Couv_254866.jpg

The writer is Stephen Desberg, responsible for quite a few very good series, such as I.R.$. and The Scorpion. I could have sworn he’d also written the spellbinding The Third Testament series, but no, that one was by Xavier Dorison. In any case, I found this one both a fun, interesting and somewhat eye-opening series, which can well join the ranks of Alix Senator, Murena, Eagles of Rome, and maybe a couple others.

https://www.bedetheque.com/serie-15366-BD-Cassio.html

  • SkullgridEnglish
    1·
    8 days ago

    Ah… my mom had the pleasure of visiting Anatolia some years back

    Come on brah, it’s “Turkey” 😭
    You might as well call it “asia minor”

    • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialOPMEnglish
      2·
      8 days ago

      Oh man…

      At the time there was this popular Android game, something about jailbreaking and jails I think? …and most of my friends wound up joining a Turkish group. It had built-in translation-servise, and most of us who joined the local Turkish group were labelled ‘Frenchies.’ (whatever, no problem, the translation worked well, so it just didn’t matter)

      And yeaaaahhh, it was a great honor to me personally, since my French is substandard, and I’m just drowning in admiration upon Anatolia, the Ancient World, History Artifacts and the ways that demonstrate that I’m a complete idiot, haha.

      But let’s rewind, bro-- who in particular named your country “Turkey” for the ages?
      “Atatürk” I would suppose?

      • SkullgridEnglish
        2·
        8 days ago

        But let’s rewind, bro-- who in particular named your country “Turkey” for the ages? “Atatürk” I would suppose?

        let’s see…

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_Turkey

        The name for the country Turkey is derived (via Old French Turquie) from the Medieval Latin Turchia, Turquia, from Medieval Greek Τουρκία, itself being Τούρκος (borrowed into Latin as Turcus, ‘A Turk, Turkish’). It is first recorded in Middle English (as Turkye, Torke, later Turkie, Turky), attested in Chaucer, c. 1369.

        I guess Chaucer? Or the Latins/Greeks?

        The local Turkish group were labelled ‘Frenchies.’

        I guess this is just a meme from the turks. Their friendgroup probably understands why… unless it took a different word for foreigners (ecnebi, yabancı or el) and turned it into “french”

        I’m just drowning in admiration upon Anatolia, the Ancient World, History Artifacts and the ways that demonstrate that I’m a complete idiot, haha.

        There are lots of ruins all over turkey, thanks to the civilizations that came before us, and some stuff from the ottoman era. Hittites, Ancient Greeks, Byzantines, and even modern Turks left their ruins there. There’s some that just gets stamped over however.

        • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialOPMEnglish
          2·
          8 days ago

          I guess this is just a meme from the turks. Their friendgroup probably understands why… unless it took a different word for foreigners (ecnebi, yabancı or el) and turned it into “french

          Oh no, all of us really did speak French in that group! It really was quite unexpected… one of the leading groups in the game, run locally by a Turkish bloke, who somehow corralled a bunch of us French-speakers in to the hooked-in Android game, lol.

          To me it was like-- fluff, yeah! A chance to test out my substandard French upon actual speakers. :D

          There are lots of ruins all over turkey, thanks to the civilizations that came before us, and some stuff from the ottoman era. Hittites, Ancient Greeks, Byzantines, and even modern Turks left their ruins there. There’s some that just gets stamped over however.

          Huh!
          Okay, do you, do you know if some of the Turkish ruins & culture have been represented well across BD?

          Me, I would like to take a look, if possible!

            • SkullgridEnglish
              2·
              8 days ago

              Huh? I’m just busy and can’t think of a good reply.

              No offence was had

              • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialOPMEnglish
                1·
                8 days ago

                I guess this is just a meme from the turks. Their friend-group probably understands why… unless it took a different word for foreigners (ecnebi, yabancı or el) and turned it into “french”

                I don’t know. Those were the kinds of Turkish words that were said in-game, but I had no way to relate to them / decode them. Is this what most Euros feels? Because it was fairly frustrating IMO.

                I mean, if you give me something in the Latin / Germanic tree, I can get a sense of things? Turkish is just… damn.

                Haha, back in the day, we used to have a song:
                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt6r-k9Bk6o

                • SkullgridEnglish
                  2·
                  7 days ago

                  Oh no, all of us really did speak French in that group! It really was quite unexpected… one of the leading groups in the game, run locally by a Turkish bloke, who somehow corralled a bunch of us French-speakers in to the hooked-in Android game, lol.

                  Well, that explains why they called you French… if you speak french, you’ll be seen as a french speaker :D

                  I don’t know. Those were the kinds of Turkish words that were said in-game, but I had no way to relate to them / decode them. Is this what most Euros feels? Because it was fairly frustrating IMO.

                  Not really, unless they go to places with lots of turks. I had fun in holland when I was trying to do a train changeover and wanted to figure out how to get to a platform. Somehow I overheard some turkish people and asked them where the platform I needed was.

                  Us Turks are like rats, our asses are everywhere. (todo : clip of Mr Ford saying “my ass is everywhere”)

                  Okay, do you, do you know if some of the Turkish ruins & culture have been represented well across BD?

                  I’m neither the BD, ruins, nor Turkish expert. Sorry :(

                  I mean, if you give me something in the Latin / Germanic tree, I can get a sense of things? Turkish is just… damn.

                  Yeah, it’s a non-Indo-European language, so a lot of it is unfamiliar. Our complex loanwords also come from arabic/farsi instead of latin/greek , and a lot of our foreign loanwords came from french. There are some overlaps with latin and english loanwords, but my Eng/Esp wife has problems adjusting.

                  • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialOPMEnglish
                    1·
                    6 days ago

                    Fascinating. And wow, I wish I was one of those gifted polyglots. (kinda like the song I was lightly referencing above) I struggle for my life trying to hold down three languages after years of practice, but some people just have that ‘language gene.’ I have nothing but jealousy for them, lol.

                    Ach… it would be so cool & interesting to take a proper dive in to Turkish language history. Indeed, the country is unbelievably fascinating. Ottoman Empire, the many civilisations of Troy, etc etc.