The Cicero Trilogy
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______________________________'One of the great triumphs of contemporary historical literature. ' The Times______________________________WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR'Laws are silent in times ...
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______________________________'One of the great triumphs of contemporary historical literature. ' The Times______________________________WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR'Laws are silent in times of war. ' CiceroOne of the great epics of political and historical fiction, The Cicero Trilogy charts the career of the Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero from his mid-twenties as an ambitious young lawyer to his dramatic death more than thirty years later, pursued by an assassination squad on a cliff-top path. The extraordinary life that unfolds between these two episodes is recounted by Cicero's private secretary, Tiro: the law cases and the speeches that made his master's name; the elections and conspiracies he fought; the rivals who contended for power around him - Pompey, Crassus, Cato, Clodius, Catalina, and, most menacingly, Caesar; and, at the heart of it all, the complex personality of Cicero himself - brilliant, cunning, duplicitous, anxious, brave, and always intensely humane. More than ten years in the writing, and now published in a single volume for the first time, The Cicero Trilogy brings the world of the Roman republic vividly to life. Here is its grandeur, ambition and corruption; and here is its tumultuous collapse into dictatorship and anarchy - a story of the fragility of democratic institutions that holds a warning for our own time.
Detaljer
Forlag
Hutchinson
ISBN
9781786332929
Sprog
Engelsk
Sider
992
Udgivelsesdato
16-09-2021
Format
Hardback
Varenr.
3140293
EAN nr.
9781786332929
Varegruppe
Fiction
Højde/Dybde (mm)
242
Bredde (mm)
163
Længde (mm)
66
Vægt (g)
1226