Imperium: From the Sunday Times bestselling author (Cicero Trilogy, 4)

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Nonetheless, this is an entertaining attempt with a provoking figure as the main focus to visit Ancient Republican Rome. At the embezzlement court, chaired by Glabrio, Cicero submits his postulates, an application to prosecute. If you are a scholar of ancient Rome and looking for insight and exposition on the details of ancient Rome, this is not where you will find them.

He’d invented a version of shorthand and thus was able to document, verbatim, words spoken by his master and others he came into contact with. The second round of the aedile elections takes place on the Field of Mars Marcus Cicero is victorious against all the odds. The result is that although the Cicero story and setting are fascinating (to me the main interest of the book), one suspects that the real pursuit of the book is contemporary (UK’s? Robert Harris has been replaced by an alien doppelganger, probably the same alien who wrote Iron and Rust, pretending to be Harry Sidebottom. Votes were for sale; in fact, there were bribery merchants and it took a great deal of money to gain and remain in power, “voters never forgave a cheapskate.The first arc of Cicero’s story as told by Harris is about the famous corruption case of Verres, and the thorny process of election that brought him to the Senate – as well as the coming together of the First Triumvirate. The level of detail in his descriptions of the Roman Senate, the Forum, and daily life in ancient Rome is astounding, providing a vivid backdrop against which the drama unfolds. Robert Harris has Tiro, Cicero's scribe/clerk, writing the linear in time progressions of his younger "coming up" to power years. Knowing that the aristocrats will baulk at this concentration of power, Cicero persuades Pompey not to put his name anywhere on the bill setting up the supreme command and to leave it to the people to vote for him.

And as a legacy of those days I’ve retained an interest in events that formed the world in which we live. This series is a must-read for anyone interested in history, politics, or simply a masterfully crafted story that transcends the ages. Cicero is summoned to the house of Metellus Pius, pontifex maximus, and requested to prosecute Catilina over his extortion as governor in Africa.However, the two men intensely dislike each other and Cicero refuses to support Crassus's request for a triumph. Robert Harris presents a lively fresco that brings the classical Rome back to life, giving voice not just to the grandiose speeches of the Senate but also to the shrewd manoeuvres that happen between the scenes.

His big chance comes when he's approached by a Sicilian notable for help in prosecuting the island province's powerful but corrupt governor Gaius Verres, a case that initially Cicero is doubtful about but finally accepts once he realises the lawsuit's potential to push his stalled career forward. Para lograr convertirse en el gran abogado del pueblo de Roma es capaz de llevar a juicio a un gobernador por corrupción en uno de los casos más importantes de su tiempo, que es lo que ocupa el primer tercio de la novela.I read a reasonable amount of non-fiction to fill the gaping holes in my knowledge but once in a while I like to pick up a book by someone like Robert Harris who is able to mix history with a little imagination. Esta, en concreto, se divide en dos partes, la primera hasta su elección como edil, y la segunda hasta su nombramiento como cónsul. Rather oddly, Harris mixes up contemporary with historical so, for example, he talks about Cicero's 'drawing room', his 'valet', and describes men with 'pomaded hair' in the Forum! While making a comment about hagiography, Tiro says simply it is the “distorting light of the future on the shadows of the past.