![]() Trust me, even if you know your Roman history well, this is a book that you should not read when you’re tired. Yet allied they could answer the treachery of rivals, lovers, enemy generals, and senatorial vipers with intricate and merciless machinations of their own-to achieve in the end a bloody and splendid foretold destiny…and win the most coveted honor the Republic could bestow.Īfter reading so many Young Adult books of late, reading something as heavy as The First Man in Rome was a refreshing challenge. Men of exceptional vision, courage, cunning, and ruthless ambition, separately they faced the insurmountable opposition of powerful, vindictive foes. When the world cowered before the legions of Rome, two extraordinary men dreamed of personal glory: the military genius and wealthy rural “upstart” Marius, and Sulla, penniless and debauched but of aristocratic birth. ![]() (Cover picture courtesy of Avon Romance.) ![]()
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