Cicero Trilogy · Book 2
Lustrum
- Published
- 8 October 2009
- Pages
- 464
- ISBN-13
- 9780091801007
- Type
- novel
About this book
At 464 pages, Lustrum (2009) is the longest of the three books -- published in the US under the alternate title Conspirata -- covering Cicero's consulship and the Catiline conspiracy three years after Imperium.
Its place in Cicero Trilogy
Lustrum is book 2 in the Cicero Trilogy series. It follows Imperium. It is followed by Dictator. 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 9780091801007