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From your bestselling author of Pompeii comes the first volume in an exciting new trilogy occur ancient Rome — an imaginary biography of Cicero, Rome’s first and greatest politician.
Of all the great figures of Roman times, none was more fascinating or attractive than Marcus Cicero. An excellent legal professional and orator, a famous wit and philosopher, he launched himself at the age of twenty-seven into the violent, treacherous world of Roman politics. Cicero was determined to realize imperium, the supreme power in the state of hawaii. Beside him at all times in his battle to reach the very best — the office of Consul — was his confidential secretary, Tiro. An accomplished man, Tiro was the inventor of shorthand and the author of numerous books, including a famous life of Cicero, sadly lost at night Ages.
In Imperium, Robert Harris recreates Tiro’s vanished masterpiece, recounting in vivid detail the story of Cicero’s rise to power, from radical young legal professional to first citizen of Rome, competing with men such as Pompey, Caesar, Crassus and Cato.
Harris’s Cicero can be an immensely sympathetic figure. In his introduction to this imaginary memoir, Taro states: “Cicero was unique in the annals of the Roman republic for the reason that he pursued supreme power with no resources to help him aside from his own talent... All he previously was his voice, and by sheer effort of will, he turned it into the most well-known voice on the planet.”
From the Hardcover edition.
