Imperium
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Of all the great figures of Rome, none was more fascinating than Marcus Cicero. Brilliant lawyer and orator, famous wit and philosopher, he launched himself, at twenty-seven, into the treacherous world of Roman politics, determined to attain imperium, the supreme power in the state.
Beside him in his struggle to reach the office of Consul was his confidential secretary, Tiro: the inventor of shorthand, author of numerous books, including a famous life of Cicero, which vanished in the Dark Ages.
Robert Harris has recreated Tiro's lost masterpiece, to tell in vivid detail the story of Cicero's rise to power, from radical young lawyer to first citizen of Rome, competing with men such as Pompey, Caesar, Crassus and Cato.
This is a world exotically different, and yet very similar, to ours; a world of Senate intrigue, electoral corruption, special prosecutors, political hostesses, in which free speech and liberty are being threatened by military adventures abroad.
Harris's Cicero is an outsider; ambitious, vulnerable, highly intelligent, compassionate, frequently devious but always human - the world's first professional politician.
Beside him in his struggle to reach the office of Consul was his confidential secretary, Tiro: the inventor of shorthand, author of numerous books, including a famous life of Cicero, which vanished in the Dark Ages.
Robert Harris has recreated Tiro's lost masterpiece, to tell in vivid detail the story of Cicero's rise to power, from radical young lawyer to first citizen of Rome, competing with men such as Pompey, Caesar, Crassus and Cato.
This is a world exotically different, and yet very similar, to ours; a world of Senate intrigue, electoral corruption, special prosecutors, political hostesses, in which free speech and liberty are being threatened by military adventures abroad.
Harris's Cicero is an outsider; ambitious, vulnerable, highly intelligent, compassionate, frequently devious but always human - the world's first professional politician.