Pros: Great characterizations, detail, trivia, action, continuity Cons: Not many in this series
Caesar’s rise to power - 68 -58 BC A century before Christ, Rome rocked the world with the fall of its republican form of government, devolving to a dictatorship and thence to an empire. There were giants in those days, Gaius Marius, ...
Pros: Fascinating look at ancient history, and some intriguing looks at our modern world. Cons: Very wordy, a very large cast of characters, and it takes some getting used to.
I have a guilty secret -- this is one of my favorite novels to read. Continuing on with her saga of the fall of the Roman Republic, and the rise of Julius Caesar, author Colleen McCullough gives us a tale that is staggering in scope and content. The ...
Pros: Beautifully written and intelligent without sacrificing one whit of pure reading pleasure. Cons: Unless you've read the first books, the complexities will confuse you.
Colleen McCullough has created a masterwork in her series on the Rome of Caesar's time. Historically accurate, yet brimming with life and a sense of who these people really were. Her depiction of historic figures leap to life on the page, fully ...
Pros: Involving, detailed, well researched Cons: None (other than it's length)
This is the fourth book in a series of novels chronicling the fall of the Roman Republic, and the rise of the Emperors. In the first three we have followed Marius and Sulla, people best known only to classical scholars, but now we reach Caeser, whose...
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