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Cicero Trilogy · Book 1

Imperium

by Robert Harris
Published
4 September 2006
Pages
384
ISBN-13
9780743555159
Type
novel
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Cover of Imperium

About this book

Imperium (2006) opens the Cicero Trilogy at 384 pages, narrated by Cicero's secretary Tiro as he traces the statesman's rise from provincial outsider to Consul of Rome.

Key facts about Imperium

Robert Harris wrote Imperium, a novel on our list. It has been out since 4 September 2006. The book has 384 pages.

We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780743555159 to find the main one.

Imperium is book 1 of 3 in the Cicero Trilogy series. The series has 3 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with. Dictator is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 8 October 2015.

That series sits on our historical fiction shelf. Meanwhile, Agrippa is the latest published Robert Harris book on file, from 27 August 2026.

About Robert Harris

Robert Harris is a British author and former journalist and BBC television reporter who turned to fiction with Fatherland (1992), an alternate-history thriller imagining a world in which Nazi Germany won the Second World War, which became an international bestseller and established the meticulously researched, politically literate style that has defined his career since. See every Robert Harris book in order.

Its place in Cicero Trilogy

Imperium is book 1 in the Cicero Trilogy series. It is followed by 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…

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