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In The Ides of April, Falco seems to have given up his work as informer. The post was later abolished ( The Accusers).

He has written satires, some odes, some epigrams, and the play The Spook Who Spoke, meant to be understood as a precursor of Hamlet.ДЇalco was awarded the post of 'Procurator of the Sacred Geese' of the Temple of Juno Moneta, a sinecure given him by Vespasian in lieu of decent payment for his services. The quote seems to indicate that Falco, at the time he is writing this particular memoir, knows that Hadrian became emperor-and so evidently Falco was still alive in August 117 AD, at the age of 76, now definitely one of those who lived to be old men.ДЇalco, besides being a private investigator, is an amateur poet. The allusion is to the Emperor Hadrian, probably born in Italica in 76 AD, who succeeded Trajan in 117 AD. In A Dying Light in Corduba (p.В 279, mass paperback edition), Falco narrates the following with reference to the city of Italica (in the Roman province of Baetica, Hispania): Those who lived to be old men would know this dot in the provinces as the birthplace of an emperor. When Trajan took over Falco would have been 57, probably an 'old man' by contemporary standards. The reference is to the emperor Trajan (Traianus), who ruled 98-117 AD. 'Who's your governor in Syria?' 'Ulpius Traianus.' It meant nothing much then, though those of us who lived to be old men would see his son's craggy mush on the currency. In Last Act in Palmyra (p.В 367), set in 72 AD, Falco is talking to the Roman garrison commander in Palmyra and asks this question: Ode to a Banker suggests that Falco managed to survive as late as 94 AD (narrating events in 74 AD but apparently recounted twenty years later). While Falco does not actually appear as a character, he is alluded to at several points. The first Flavia Albia novel, The Ides of April, is set in 89 AD. Several novels suggest that Falco survived quite a few years after the cliffhanger ending of Nemesis, in 77 AD. In the sequel, Enemies at Home, Albia reveals the identity of her deceased husband, who is none other than Lentullus, an ex-legionary formerly under the leadership of her uncle Quintus when he was tribune.

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At the age of 28, in AD 89, she is a widowed informer and the central character of Davis's book The Ides of April, in the series Falco: The New Generation. As a result of circumstances narrated in Nemesis, Falco retires from investigating and takes over his late father's auctioneering business.ДЇalco and Helena adopted Flavia Albia, a British child, whom they rescued in London in The Jupiter Myth.

At his father's wake Falco discovers that he is to become a brother yet again when Thalia, an old friend he met in Venus in Copper, Last Act in Palmyra and Alexandria, reveals that she is expecting a childВ вЂ“ she claims by Geminus. Tragically the baby, Marcus Didius Justinianus, dies shortly after birth on the day that Geminus, Falco's father, also dies. In Nemesis, it is revealed that Helena Justina has been pregnant once again. After a series of successful missions for the emperor, Falco rose to a certain level of respectabilityВ вЂ“ he achieved equestrian rank ( One Virgin Too Many)В вЂ“ and he and Helena then lived together with their two daughters, in an arrangement acceptable to his in-laws. Festus had served in the legio XV Apollinaris and was posthumously awarded the mural crown after he was killed in 68 AD on active service during the First Jewish-Roman War in Judaea.ДЇalco and his father are forced to an uneasy accommodation in the course of Poseidon's Gold and see one another on occasions thereafter, but Falco's sympathies remain with his mother.ДЇalco met his wife, Helena Justina, the divorced and patrician daughter of a senator, while on an investigation in Britannia ( The Silver Pigs), but their very different circumstances made their relationship difficult. Some time after that he manages to get himself 'invalided out' with a relatively minor wound in AD 66. When Falco's elder brother Festus is killed, Falco becomes head of the family and in the position of responsibility his father has abdicated.ДЇalco joins the Roman Army and serves in the Second Augusta legion in Britain during the Boudiccan Revolt. While Falco is still young, his father leaves his mother and the family home to live with another woman, changing his agnomen (a form of nickname) from Favonius to 'Geminus'. His father is a somewhat shady auctioneer, and his family is of Plebeian rank, but Falco himself eventually achieves Equestrian rank.

5 Books featuring other Didii family membersДЇalco was born on 20 or 21 March 41 AD to Marcus Didius Favonius and Junilla Tacita.

3 Books in the Marcus Didius Falco Series.