Dear and Glorious Physician

Taylor Caldwell's Dear and Glorious Physician. Her insights into Rome and her regression from republic to empire and its parallel to our own current plight is so insightful as to be prophetic. Thus far I have to say that the beauty of language, the depiction of decadent orgiastic Rome, the nobility of some of the few resisters to the riotous life, Lucanus and his goodness and his misguided enmity toward God is so well drawn that I wouldn't hesitate in predicting it to be a masterpiece not to be missed and a manual to guide even our own times.