![]() ![]() Still thinking her a eunuch, Athanaric has her appointed chief physician at a remote army outpost in Thrace. In turn, Athanaric saves Charis after Athanasius dies, when all his associates are in the gravest of danger. ![]() ![]() She meets Imperial agent Athanaric and saves his life. However, she is enmeshed in the riotous religious politics of the time when she becomes private physician to Archbishop Athanasius. She has already read Galen and Hippocrates, and becomes the assistant to a Jewish doctor, while continuing her medical studies at the renowned schools of Alexandria. This signalled the beginning of the fall of the Roman Empire.Ĭharis, the daughter of a wealthy noble in Ephesus, is helped by her brother to escape a hateful marriage. There Valens, Emperor of the Eastern half of the Roman Empire, was killed along with most of his field armies by a barbarian horde of Goths, Visigoths and Huns. It takes place in Thrace in the years just prior to 378 A.D., the date of the battle of Hadrianopolis. T he Beacon at Alexandria is the first novel Bradshaw wrote after her very successful Arthurian trilogy. The Beacon at Alexandria by Gillian Bradshaw ![]()
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