She begins her investigative journey as a classic subordinate aristocratic Roman woman, relying for safety and information on the power and patronage of men with familial connections. After Ovid’s banishment early in the narrative, the remainder of the novel describes the life and travails of Pinaria, his second wife, who is abandoned in Rome, confused, and determined to seek the causes of her beloved’s puzzling exile. The plot takes as its starting point Ovid’s exile from Rome due to the mysterious carmen et error that has long been the subject of scholarly dispute. It is highly readable, effectively broaching historically disputed issues within the parameters of its storyline.
Also like its predecessors, the book is easily accessible to the general reader, while providing nuggets of scholarship that will please classicists. Like its predecessors, Betray the night is concerned with fleshing out the cultural and political worlds of historical figures whom the reader may know only through the extant literature. This latest volume revolves around Publius Ovidius Naso, better known simply as Ovid.
This novel is the fourth in a loose series of historical fiction following Jaro’s trilogy The Key, The Lock, and The Door in the Wall which build stories around the lives of Catullus, Cicero, and Marcus Caelius Rufus, respectively.
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