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Bit of a tangent but if this period interests you, Robert Harris has a trilogy of excellent and entertaining novels starting with Imperium that trace the rise a
by gnfisher 8y ago
Bit of a tangent but if this period interests you, Robert Harris has a trilogy of excellent and entertaining novels starting with Imperium that trace the rise and fall of Cicero's life, a peer of Crassus and Caesar. Highly recommended!
- btilly 8y agoI am currently reading the trilogy and second the recommend. It is told from the point of view of Tiro, slave of Cicero and inventor of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tironian_notes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tironian_notes. The conceit of the series is that it is actually a biography of Cicero that in really was written by Tiro but has unfortunately been lost to history since. (We know about it by references to it from other ancient works.)