Imperium
Book #1 in The Cicero Trilogy. Historical fiction about the legal and political intrigues of the Roman statesman, Cicero, as told by his slave and secretary, Tiro.
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- The Cicero Trilogy by Robert Harris: Imperium, Titan, Dictator
Fascinating pageturner that also provide some real insight what life was like in ancient rome.
- If you have the time the Cicero trilogy(Imperium/Lustrum/Dictator) by Robert Harris are a great read.
- A smattering from my audible listening list which I particularly remember liking (this might actually be a 'less read books' list sorry ;-) ): Michael Palin - Erebus ; Alan Moore - Jerusalem ; Graeme Green - Travel with my Aunt ; Karen Maitland - A Company of Liars ; Louis de Bernieres - Captain Correlli's Mandolin ; Umberto Eco - The Name of the Rose ; Nikolai Gogol - Dead Souls ; Robert Harris - Imperium trilogy ...
I'd second for Master & Margarita and almost anything by Dostoyevsky
- I thoroughly recommend the Cicero trilogy (Imperium, Lustrum, Dictator) by Robert Harris (https://www.amazon.com/Cicero-Trilogy-Robert-Harris-Collecti...) for a fictionalized, but thoroughly researched, story of his life and career.
- Reading the classics often make me feel we achieved very little improving our base instincts in the last 2000 years.
Robert Harris has a number of pretty cool historical fiction books about Cicero (Imperium, Pompeii, Conspirata) that are a good read also and put much of the goneby times in context.
- I found the Cicero Trilogy (Imperium, Lustrum, Dictator) by Robert Harris very enjoyable. They are novels, not 'history books', but well researched and told.
