THE FIRST MAN IN ROME
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1990. First Edition. Cloth and boards. Thick 8vo (9.50" x 5.80" x 1.80"), red quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over boards, nine maps and 14 illustrations by the author, Mylar-protected pictorial dust wrapper (unclipped) painted by Honi Werner, map endpapers, 896 pages. Very Fine / Very Fine. Item #1201
ISBN: 068809368X
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Dr. McCullough is one of the finest historians of ancient Rome. She is also said to have had the largest library on ancient Rome in private hands. Her series on ancient Roman leaders and their political fights is not only historical fiction, because of her depths of insight, they qualify as serious, marvellous history.
This volume is McCullough's first book in her series on the life of Julius Caesar. It covers Rome (110-100 BC) and the political struggles of general Gaius Marius (c.155-86 BC)--Caesar's uncle by marriage--and their rival, Lucius Sulla (c.138-78 BC), who tried to destroy both men. Theirs was a period devastated by intrigues, rivalries, assassinations, wars, and upheaval.
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