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Through tiro ciceros slave he tells the story of cicero a story told many times in other novels and biographies but he gives it just the right amount of color that allows the reader to enter effortlessly into the life and politics of ancient rome as the republic nears its end and to follow cicero to his climactic end as inevitable as was the end of the republic

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This novel by robert harris the last in a trilogy about ancient rome explains roman politics and the end of the republic

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His cicero is a tragic deeply flawed figure in a brutal age

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Caesar is a dangerous man who indulges cicero – to a point

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The orator however doesn’t know when to shut up even after being warned by caesar’s generals

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A thousand silly old names

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Then rome made an illusion of liberty linger for 500 until the events of this trilogy swept it all away until the coming of thomas jefferson

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Robert harris never fails to entertain and inform