Rome, 63 BC. In a city on the brink of acquiring a vast empire, seven men are struggling for power. Cicero is consul, Caesar his ruthless young rival, Pompey the republic's greatest general, Crassus its richest man, Cato a political fanatic, Catilina a psychopath, Clodius an ambitious playboy. The stories of these real historical figures - their alliances and betrayals, their cruelties and seductions, their brilliance and their crimes - are all interleaved to form this epic novel. Its narrator is Tiro, a slave who serves as ...
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Rome, 63 BC. In a city on the brink of acquiring a vast empire, seven men are struggling for power. Cicero is consul, Caesar his ruthless young rival, Pompey the republic's greatest general, Crassus its richest man, Cato a political fanatic, Catilina a psychopath, Clodius an ambitious playboy. The stories of these real historical figures - their alliances and betrayals, their cruelties and seductions, their brilliance and their crimes - are all interleaved to form this epic novel. Its narrator is Tiro, a slave who serves as confidential secretary to the wily, humane, complex Cicero. He knows all his master's secrets - a dangerous position to be in. From the discovery of a child's mutilated body, through judicial execution and a scandalous trial, to the brutal unleashing of the Roman mob, Lustrum is a study in the timeless enticements and horrors of power.
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Very good reading. Excellent series dealing with life of Cicero. Hated for it to end.
Auldphart
Mar 14, 2013
Another hit for Harris
This is the second novel dealing with Marcus Tullius Cicero's rise to power in the Roman senate and society in the first century BCE. Done in the same style as the first novel, as a memoir of Cicreo's personal secretary, a slave named Tiro, it covers the events leading up to the famous Catalinian Conspiracy. Filled with all the political intrigue, corruption, and, of course, adultery for which Rome, on the cusp of slipping from republic to dictatorial empire, is well-known, he has made the people real, while maintaining consistancy with known historical facts.
N. B.:
Conspirata is the American title of this book, Lustrum is the British title. I didn't realize, until I bought both, that they were identical. Quae cum ita sint, nolite Conspirata et Lustrum emere.
