How long does it take to read The House of the Vestals?
The House of the Vestals by Steven Saylor takes about 5 hours 3 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 6 of Roma Sub Rosa
Previous: A Murder on the Appian Way Next: Rubicon
About 5 hours 3 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1997. 275 pages, about 75,625 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 24 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 3 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 9 minutes |
The page count is the median across 13 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Nine crime stories featuring Gordianus the Finder, a detective in ancient Rome who marries his slave. Part mystery, part a social history of the period from the end of Sulla's dictatorship to the Spartacan slave revolt.
Subjects: Fiction, History, Rome, Fiction, historical, general, Rome, fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general
