Christos Leontios
The Lion of Amphipolis above the CL monogram

Author

Christos Leontios

Historical thrillers set in the Roman world of Late Antiquity, when the Empire still held the Mediterranean and nobody had yet called it anything but Roman.

The series

The Silver Meridian: a modern negotiator walks through a Sicilian sea-cave into the spring of AD 599, with a year to save the Roman Empire from the mutiny that will destroy it.

Volume I, The Smallest Coin, is out on Kindle on 15 January 2027. Pre-order on Amazon UK, Amazon US or Amazon DE.

If you know the difference between a solidus and a siliqua, or have ever wished the Romans of Constantinople were given their proper name, you are in the right place. Start with the world of 600, a reader's companion to the series, or the notes.

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