Cicero Trilogy · Book 3
Dictator
- Published
- 8 October 2015
- Pages
- 417
- ISBN-13
- 9781410488565
- Type
- novel
About this book
Dictator closes the trilogy in 2015 at 417 pages, arriving six years after Lustrum to trace Cicero's slow fall from power under Julius Caesar and the triumvirs.
Its place in Cicero Trilogy
Dictator is book 3 in the Cicero Trilogy series. It follows Lustrum. See the full Cicero Trilogy reading order.
Narrated throughout by Tiro, Cicero's real-life slave and secretary (and the historical inventor of an early Latin shorthand system), the Cicero Trilogy dramatizes the Roman statesman's entire public career: his rise from provincial outsider to Consul of Rome in Imperium, his consulship and the Catiline conspiracy in Lustrum, and his slow fall from power under Julius Caesar and the triumvirs that follow in Dictator. Harris treats Cicero's political maneuvering -- alliances, bribery, courtroom rhetoric, backroom…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781410488565