Imperium: From the Sunday Times bestselling author (Cicero Trilogy, 4)

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Harris's portrayal of Cicero's last years is not just a recounting of events; it's a deep, introspective look at the ideals of democracy and the nature of power.

This is the tale of Cicero’s political machinations, as he juggles various parties, in a valiant but impossible task of keeping them all happy.I was not expecting it and when Part One tied up and Part Two began I found myself feeling like I was starting a new book.

A pretty decent novel about Roman politician and arguably greatest orator Marcus Tullius Cicero, that I understand is the start of a trilogy. When I was in university, I had the immense privilege and joy of taking a course in classical rhetoric. The book was serialised as the Book at Bedtime on BBC Radio 4 from 4 to 15 September 2006, read by Douglas Hodge. He learns from his close friend, Atticus, that Crassus is attempting to hijack the election through bribery. He has been a television correspondent with the BBC and a newspaper columnist for the London Sunday Times and The Daily Telegraph.Harris does a good job differentiating between the different classes by means of things like dialogue, and that can be tough to do in historical fiction so far removed from our time and language. At the embezzlement court, chaired by Glabrio, Cicero submits his postulates, an application to prosecute.

The novel delves into the darker corners of Roman politics, where conspiracy and ambition lead to a tumultuous and dangerous landscape.En efecto, Robert Harris no es precisamente un esteta; mejor dicho, hay muchos pasajes en los que el estilo es directamente desagradable, no pretendidamente desagradable, sino simple, limitado, carente de sustancia y, lo que es peor, cargado de anacronismos. Cicero is summoned to the house of Metellus Pius, pontifex maximus, and requested to prosecute Catilina over his extortion as governor in Africa. Told in hindsight by his former slave and secretary, Tiro, Imperium is about Cicero’s rise to political power: first aedile, then praetor, and finally consul of Rome. Crassus turns up at Cicero's house and suggests a joint supreme command, offering to support Cicero for consul if he conveys the offer to Pompey, but Cicero rejects the proposal, despite being threatened by Crassus with suffering the same fate as Tiberius Gracchus.