Cicero Trilogy
______ '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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- Anyone interested in getting a great overview of the late republic should read the Cicero trilogy by Robert Harris
- I just finished the Cicero Trilogy by Robert Harris. Probably easier to digest than the works of the man himself and a very good read too.
- The Cicero Trilogy by Robert Harris: Imperium, Titan, Dictator
Fascinating pageturner that also provide some real insight what life was like in ancient rome.
- It's fascinating to see him through the eyes of Cicero's slave Marcus Tullius Tiro in Robert Harris's Cicero Trilogy.
- I read the guidelines and am worried this is too...small to be a post. Mr 'dang', please remove this if it's too silly of a post and accept my humble apologies.
Hope this isn't too much a digression but first off This forum is immensely valuable, thank you all for allowing this silly layman (dropped out of stem for law, maths too hard) reddit refugee.
the recs I've found here from ancient beat for anthropology to the cicero trilogy to the medieval origins of law to youtubers to courses to tools like kagi and perplexity and phid and llama tooling have all brought me immense intellectual joy and productive use. thank you again.
I'm hoping to indulge you lovely people further by asking for recs for:
a) an ios hn client/app, (using octal at the moment, and besides some weird behavior when commenting I'm mostly content with it and am using the paid version)
b)an app I could use to learn and play go in my spare time. I love lichess for chess. and am using crazyStone (paid) for go but not a ton of people in online play.
c)Also while you're here I would deeply appreciate book recommendations for someone who loved and devoured the Cicero Trilogy by robert harris. rome and the byzantines are awesome.
d) Any books on Synthetic/computational Biology would be great too. Suleyman's "The coming wave" has left me eager to learn more there. I am making some slow progress in to "Synthetic Biology - New Interdisciplinary Science".
e)Also, any books in general that tell history in those fictional first hand accounts I would love. Older the better. Working on Byzantine and Chinese history now podcast wise so in that domain if possible.
f)Books on greek and islamic history would also be appreciated. Haven't got to the ornament of the world but it's high on the list.
g)Any cosmology books for the cosmological-ly curious who never made it deeper than kurezergat videos would be great too.
Thanks again and I hope one day to absorb enough to be giving recommendations rather than taking!
- If you have the time the Cicero trilogy(Imperium/Lustrum/Dictator) by Robert Harris are a great read.
