Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    Pilate's Wife: A Novel of the Roman Empire
    Unavailable
    Pilate's Wife: A Novel of the Roman Empire
    Unavailable
    Pilate's Wife: A Novel of the Roman Empire
    Ebook493 pages7 hours

    Pilate's Wife: A Novel of the Roman Empire

    By Antoinette May

    3.5/5

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this ebook

    A daughter of privilege in the most powerful empire the world has ever known, Claudia has a unique and disturbing "gift": her dreams have an uncanny way of coming true. As a rebellious child seated beside the tyrannical Roman Emperor Tiberius, she first spies the powerful gladiator who will ultimately be her one true passion. Yet it is the ambitious magistrate Pontius Pilate who intrigues the impressionable young woman she becomes, and Claudia finds her way into his arms by means of a mysterious ancient magic. Pilate is her grand destiny, leading her to Judaea and plunging her into a seething cauldron of open rebellion. But following her friend Miriam of Magdala's confession of her ecstatic love for a charismatic religious radical, Claudia begins to experience terrifying visions—horrific premonitions of war, injustice, untold devastation and damnation . . . and the crucifixion of a divine martyr whom she must do everything in her power to save.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 13, 2009
    ISBN9780061870743
    Unavailable
    Pilate's Wife: A Novel of the Roman Empire
    Author

    Antoinette May

    Antoinette May is the author of Pilate's Wife and coauthor of the New York Times bestseller Adventures of a Psychic. An award-winning travel writer specializing in Mexico, May divides her time between Palo Alto and a home in the Sierra foothills.

    Related to Pilate's Wife

    Related ebooks

    Historical Romance For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Ghost Girl, Banana

      Aug 21, 2023

      By the time I was 25, there were only two things I remembered about Mumma. The first was that she smelled of watermelons, the second was that we were happy. We’d taken our father’s name of course, but a name is only half a story. The other half exist

      6 min read

    • Article

      I, Spy

      Aug 7, 2018

      Many things happened to me for the first time on a night in April 1944. I rode in a Black Maria; I jumped from a bomber with a tangled parachute; and I began my mission in wartime France as a British secret agent. We drove in the Black Maria from Int

      17 min read

    • Article

      How Jackie O Helped Bring ‘Sally Hemings’ to Life

      Oct 4, 2022

      Barbara Chase-Riboud remembers Jacqueline Kennedy's role in publishing her groundbreaking debut novel. The post How Jackie O Helped Bring ‘Sally Hemings’ to Life appeared first on The Millions.

      8 min read

    • Article

      Two Poems by Phillip B. Williams

      Dec 15, 2017

      The masters are yet dead. Wanting to be human,I tried to rewrite The Waste Land. The canon’s reachcasts ruinous light. The masters’ pens breachthis page where, above, my own hand spectates. Babylonrisen, exorcism in reverse, whose nature upended now?

      6 min read

    • Article

      Flood The World With Beauty

      Nov 1, 2019

      A big literary conference is probably not the best place for a poet dealing with a mental breakdown. But there I was at AWP, skittishly perusing tables at the book fair, under the garish lights of the Minneapolis Convention Center. For two years, par

      8 min read

    • Article

      Nick Laird

      Dec 15, 2017

      I was trying to write like an adult.I had children.I was at the end of something. As I waited at my table by the window for the coffee,I saw that the sirocco had depositeda scrim of dust on the sill overnight,and it was the dark red of powdered blood

      3 min read

    • Article

      What We Loved This Week

      Aug 24, 2018

      What We Loved This Week
      5 min read

    • Article

      Universal Truths

      Jun 20, 2021

      Universal Truths
      2 min read

    • Article

      The Corridor Stories

      Sep 1, 2022

      The Corridor Stories
      5 min read

    • Article

      La Otra Historia

      Jun 30, 2022

      La Otra Historia
      14 min read

    • Article

      Hey, Necromancer!

      Sep 18, 2018

      Hey, Necromancer!
      8 min read

    • Article

      A Year in Reading: Il’ja Rákoš

      Dec 14, 2019

      I, like you, definitely don’t need to be made more susceptible to the predations of the truly sinister agents of corruption that are at work all around us. The post A Year in Reading: Il’ja Rákoš appeared first on The Millions.

      5 min read

    • Article

      Four Poems

      Mar 1, 2024

      I was trying to look a little less like myselfand more like other humans, humans who belonged, so I put on a skort.Purchased in another life, when I had a husband and wrote thank-you notes and held dinner parties,the skort even had its own little poc

      6 min read

    • Article

      Perfect Prose II

      May 15, 2020

      Perfect Prose II
      4 min read

    • Article

      A Path Through the Woods

      May 30, 2023

      A Path Through the Woods
      3 min read

    • Article

      Dinner with Martin Amis

      Oct 3, 2019

      Dinner with Martin Amis
      9 min read

    Reviews for Pilate's Wife

    3.5/5

    75 ratings5 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 4/5
      Pilate's Wife has some real promise. I was intrigued by Claudia's character and her "visions" which predicted Jesus' death. Her life was extremely interesting and tragic. I might have scored it 4 1/2 or 5 stars if she hadn't taken liberties by writing that Miriam (Mary Magdalene) and Jesus got married. Otherwise an interesting book when kept me reading.
    • 4/5
      Claudia, a young woman from a wealthy family in Ancient Rome, grows up amidst the swirling politics of the Emperor Tiberius, to whom she is distantly related. From a young age, she possesses a second sight, in which she sees and dreams of things that have not yet happened - sometimes tiny inconsequential details, other times things that will have a profound impact on her life, the lives of others, and on history itself. She is eventually married to a handsome man named Pontius Pilate, with whom she shares a complex relationship of separation and closeness. Eventually, she befriends a courtesan named Mary Magdalene, who has fallen in love with a radical Jewish man. I enjoyed this vivid book very much, and Claudia was a heroine and narrator that I grew to love. Her visions were interesting, though never taking up too much of the story to let it begin veering into the historical fantasy genre. I love Ancient Rome, and this book gives the reader a wonderful feeling for the time period and the setting. Claudia's father is in the ever-traveling army, and after she marries Pilate, the couple move around quite a bit, so we get to see not only Rome itself but a great deal of the vast Roman Empire. The integration of the biblical story of Jesus was an interesting one, and a curious (if not new) twist on the subject. Mary Magdalene actually had a character, unlike some other books I have read where she is nothing but a hollow 'that woman from the Bible' shell. Jesus, who is here called Yeshua, was not mentioned all that much, but he and Mary and apparently in love, and engaged to be married.At times, I felt that the whole Jesus plot felt a bit out of place, however. After all, it only becomes part of the story much later in the book, and the weight that May seems to want to write into it didn't entirely come through for me, as if the author was trying to introduce a brand new, but extremely significant, plot line right at the end of the book.Claudia sees visions about Yeshua being a king, and being holy, but the author avoids depicting him as God or a human man, rather letting the reader interpret for themselves whatever they wish. Claudia's relationship with Holtan, a gladiator whom she prophesied about as a younger girl, annoyed me. I could feel no sympathy for the couple, rather siding with Pilate, and wishing that Claudia would only try to work on her bond with her husband instead. Overall, this was a very good book, especially in the beginning. Toward the end, what with the Mary Magdalene / Yeshua story abruptly being shoved forward, and Holtan, I cannot say that I enjoyed it quite so much, but this is still a book I would recommend.
    • 5/5
      A fascinating account of Mary Magdalene, her relationship with Jesus and the control of the Roman Empire.
    • 4/5
      Exellent book about the corruption of the Roman Empire, a girl that would do anything for the man she desires and the man that made the decision that he know in the world about. It is a fictional historical book that is rivating and shows Pilate as a man that would do anything to rise himself in a corrupt worls.
    • 4/5
      I love historical ancient Rome novels. I particularly enjoyed this book's reinterpretation of the Christian version of Jesus's death and the distortion throughout the centuries of the Bible and history. I was obsessed with Dan Brown's The DaVinci Codes and went into a buying mode of every book I could get my hands on about his theory.