The Flame of Hercules: The Story of a Fugitive Galley Slave is a 1955 novel by Richard Llewellyn.

[1] He falls in love with the daughter of a prominent citizen of Herculaneum, a Vestal.

They become a part of a conflict between the devotees of Christ and of Diana.

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