The Cicero Trilogy: Robert Harris

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Highly intelligent, astute, wily, witty, cunning, kind, vain, wrong-headed, loyal, and ultimately a man of uncompromising principle. By the end, Cicero's soaring oratory is the only force left against those powers moving to snuff out Roman freedom for ever.

Personally, I think that it might have been far more interesting to have only the historical background of the struggle of the Republic with Catilina and more depth of character.

loved the relationship between tiro and cicero, especially in terms of what it examined about slavery in this time. Rome is in a panic with the burning of Ostia by the pirates and when the Latin Festival finishes, Gabinius mounts the rostra to demand a supreme commander. At Books2Door, we believe that reading is a fundamental skill that every child should have to help improve their vocabulary, grammar, and critical thinking skills. Originally published as three separate books (Imperium, Lustrum and Dictator) over a period of several years, and fascinatingly narrated by his long-suffering secretary (and slave) Tiro, the trilogy sets out Cicero's rise to the political pinnacle of Consul of Rome, achieved significantly by a successful prosecution of the corrupt Sicilian Governor Verres.

The depictions of well-known Roman figures such as Caesar, Marc Antony, and Octavian are similarly very well depicted. Felt as if I were witnessing the triumphs and vagaries of a nobler, more spirited form of democracy in action.

They are suspicious of the veracity of the meeting's notes but Tiro convinces them by recording their own conversation using his shorthand script and in the early hours of the morning a deal is struck between the 'new man' and the aristocrats. Weaving everything into a mesmerising page-turner is the product of true genius; making this book into one of my top ten books of all time. Back in the extortion court he wins his case against the Gauls but is saddened by the death of his cousin, Lucius, who Tiro knows commited suicide, as well as the death of his father. By the time I realised it wasn’t going to be a good book, I told myself to finish it anyway as I’d abandoned Lustrum a few years ago and had to re-read it recently to get to this book, so I didn’t want to have to re-read half of this book again in a few years if I end up wondering whether it somehow turned out to be good in the end.

Robert Harris beschrijft een verrassend georganiseerde en gejuridiseerde samenleving, waar intriges, misbruik, belangenvermenging, . His work has been translated into forty languages and nine of his books have been adapted for cinema and television. Cicero is forced to borrow money from Terentia to support his case and leaves Rome on the Ides of January to seek evidence against Verres in Sicily. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.As I neared the end of the trilogy I realised that I had whisked through more than 900 pages of Roman history – no mean feat on its own on RH’s part. From what I read in other sources, Harris tries to be as true to actual historical events as possible. To fund his case and also his aedile election campaign, Cicero is obliged once more to borrow money from Terentia.