Cicero Trilogy · Book 1
Imperium
- Published
- 4 September 2006
- Pages
- 384
- ISBN-13
- 9780743555159
- Type
- novel
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.
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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780743555159