EAN: 9781786332929

Bilder-Quelle: averdo

______________________________ '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.' Cicero One 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.

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