The First Man in Rome

By - McCullough, Colleen

Floor - Floor 3

Published - Morrow, New York, 1990

ISBN 10 - 0061582417

ISBN 13 - 9780061582417

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Rome (Empire)

Shelf No - 7

Call Number - 823 MCC

Physical Description - 896 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Notes - Includes Index

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With extraordinary narrative power, New York Times bestselling author Colleen McCullough sweeps the reader into a whirlpool of pageantry and passion, bringing to vivid life the most glorious epoch in human history. When the world cowered before the legions of Rome, two extraordinary men dreamed of personal glory: the military genius and wealthy rural "upstart" Marius, and Sulla, penniless and debauched but of aristocratic birth. Men of exceptional vision, courage, cunning, and ruthless ambition, separately they faced the insurmountable opposition of powerful, vindictive foes. Yet allied they could answer the treachery of rivals, lovers, enemy generals, and senatorial vipers with intricate and merciless machinations of their own—to achieve in the end a bloody and splendid foretold destiny . . . and win the most coveted honor the Republic could bestow.

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