The Cicero Trilogy: Robert Harris

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The book was serialised as the Book at Bedtime on BBC Radio 4 from 4 to 15 September 2006, read by Douglas Hodge. Je moet je hoofd er echt bijhouden want door de vele personages, gebeurtenissen en politiek gekronkel raakte ik de draad soms even kwijt. This series is jam-packed with details about everyday life in ancient Rome, to the backstabbing joy of being a politician in the ancient world.

This book had been written as a Historic Roman but in great detail and with some fill ins of what ‘possibly’ has been said. In IMPERIUM, we are thrown into the violent, wheeling-and-dealing, and backstabbing world of Roman politics, in which Cicero uses his wits and skills as an orator and lawyer against the entrenched patrician class to reach for the consulship. Cicero Trilogy Robert Harris Collection 3 Books Collection box Set includes titles in this collection :- Imperium: (Cicero Trilogy 1), Lustrum: (Cicero Trilogy 2), Dictator: (Cicero Trilogy 3). Cicero is consul, Caesar his ruthless young rival, Pompey the republic's greatest general, Crus its richest man, Cato a political fanatic, Catilina a psychopath, Clodius an ambitious playboy. At the same time it does give some insight into the politics in and of Rome, how they could have been.Cicero's plan is to have Gabinius summon Pompey to the rostra the next day, asking him to serve as supreme commander, and to have Pompey reject it and then the people would demand he take it. However, I'm happy to report that I not only finished this series, but that I've done so a few times. Still, I have mixed feelings about the blurb claim on the front cover, that it is ”one of the great triumphs of contemporary historical literature”: if you open it believing that you’ll probably be disappointed.

He has been a television correspondent with the BBC and a newspaper columnist for the London Sunday Times and The Daily Telegraph. We finally get a nice hardback book with all three of Harris' books in the Cicero trilogy ( Imperium, Lustrum and Dictator). We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Our team is made up of book lovers who are dedicated to sourcing and providing the best books for kids.of famed Roman orator and consul, Marcus Tullius Cicero as told from the perspective of Cicero's slave/scribe/secretary Tiro. Except I really want to read Dictator, the final book in Robert Harris’ Cicero trilogy, which I’m hoping will be awesome, and I’ve been on a Harris kick lately, so I powered through Lustrum – and I was right the first time because unfortunately it ain’t all that and a bag of potatoes! At a meeting in the Senate Pompey's arrival is greeted with boos and jeering and Piso and the other aristocrats attack him for wanting to be a second Romulus in their determination to vote down the lex Gabinia. Sthenius, who has been ignored for some time, turns up at the house one morning, accompanied by Heraclius and Epicrates who have also been swindled out of their estates by Verres.

I suppose the best credit that could be given to the book is that it has made me want to read some Cicero. Our politicians have long way to go, in terms of cynicism, greed, nastiness, incompetence, arrogance, treachery, and intriguing. Imperium focuses on Cicero’s steady rise to the top of the Republic’s political system, fired by via his canny legal work and speechifying. At the age of forty-two, the youngest age permitted to achieve the supreme imperium of the Roman consulship, the 'new man' has achieved his ultimate ambition.

The plot develops when the senator and lawyer is visited some months later by Sthenius of Thermae, who has fled Sicily after being threatened by governor Gaius Verres. Crassus and Pompey are evenly matched against one another, with each having enough supporters to veto the bill if required. stars—Harris has the rare gift of using a compelling fictional narrative to breathe new life into the well-trodden history of the final days of the Roman Republic. He barely puts a foot wrong throughout, to the point that you wind up wishing he would, just to show he was human. At the first round of the elections, Cicero learns that Verres is bribing the voters with his immense wealth; Marcus Metellus also draws the election court as praetor.

The second round of the aedile elections takes place on the Field of Mars Marcus Cicero is victorious against all the odds. It is not only Cicero who contributes our knowledge of the period but Tiro, his slave, who has so much to offer, particularly his shorthand, much of which is still used.

I recently finished the Cicero trilogy by Robert Harris and was awed by the imaginative and fully realized rendering of ancient Rome during the fall of the republic, as well as Harris’s brilliant writing style. Cato’s fate was similarly engrossing and it was nice to see Tiro, our narrator, have some good things happen to him. On a visit to the stone quarries, they encounter crews of merchant ships imprisoned there that should have been captured pirates whom Verres had ransomed. His energies renewed, Cicero brings all this Sicilian witnesses to the extortion court, on 5 August in the consulship of Gnaeus Pompey Magnus and Marcus Licinius Crassus, and the trial of Gaius Verres begins. It is a fictional biography of Cicero, told through the first-person narrator of his secretary Tiro, beginning with the prosecution of Gaius Verres.