Masters of Rome · Book 6

The October Horse

by Colleen McCullough

Published
26 November 2002
Pages
1120
ISBN-13
9780743528177
Type
novel

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About this book

The October Horse arrived on November 26, 2002, five years after Caesar, and at 1,120 pages is the longest book in the entire series. It brings the central Caesar arc to its climax with his assassination.

Its place in Masters of Rome

The October Horse is book 6 in the Masters of Rome series. It follows Caesar. It is followed by Antony and Cleopatra. See the full Masters of Rome reading order.

Colleen McCullough's Masters of Rome novels are a seven-book chronicle of the last decades of the Roman Republic, from the rise of Gaius Marius in 110 BC to the aftermath of Antony and Cleopatra's defeat in 27 BC — the century in which the Republic tore itself apart and Rome became an empire in all but name. Beginning with The First Man in Rome , the series tracks an enormous cast of real historical figures — Marius, Sulla, Pompey, Crassus, Cato the Younger, and eventually Julius Caesar himself — through civil…

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