Under the tyranny of Nero, Christians are persecuted as a Roman patrician falls in love with a devout hostage. Sienkiewicz's epic of the early Church.
Books mentioned in Quo Vadis (6)
Iliad by Homer: “AEschylus would not have written his Prometheus had there been no fire, just as Homer would not have written the Iliad had there been no Trojan war.”
Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus: “Æschylus would not have written his Prometheus had there been no fire, just as Homer would not have written the Iliad had there been no Trojan war.”
Eclogues by Virgil: “I am looking also for Persius, and a certain edition of the Eclogues of Vergilius, which I do not possess.”
Idylls by Theocritus: “During the meal a lector read to them the Idyls of Theocritus.”
Troica (The Burning of Troy) by Nero: “He would appear in the Olympic games, as a poet, with his ‘Burning of Troy’; as a charioteer, as a musician, as an athlete”
Books that mention Quo Vadis (1)
The Art of Fiction by Ayn Rand: “On the other hand, I consider Quo Vadis, technically, one of the best-constructed novels ever written, yet I do not agree with its message...”