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Rufus, who dislikes Crassus intensely, agrees to hide Tiro in a secret alcove behind a tapestry so he can transcribe an important meeting.
During this time, the Roman Republic starts to succumb to the rot within the ranks of the aristocracy and others in power. I found this to be a pretty effective plot device for showing the supposed "accuracy" of the narrative.
Todo ello narrado por Tirón, su secretario personal, que fue esclavo y luego manumitido por su dueño. What is to follow is an intriguing and wonderful reconstruction of Cicero as a clever and devious individual, lawyer and orator, and this all told through the voice of Tiro, but it will show us also that the Roman world in this period of history is full with men longing for power and they will do everything they can to obtain it, be it by force, treachery, revenge and/or ultimately death.
Since I was originally seduced into my passion for learning about the Roman Empire by Colleen McCullough and her "Masters of Rome" series of novels, I naturally began this investigation of the life of Cicero with misgivings since Cicero is less than heroic in McCullough's books that tend to present Julius Caesar as the more admirable character.
Robert Harris, with his Cicero Trilogy - "Imperium," "Lustrum" (published as "Conspirata" in the US), and "Dictator" - has achieved something remarkable in historical fiction.
Harris's writing isn't always the most graceful - he's better on plot than style - but he's not incompetent.Another surprise was the villainous portrayal of Catalina as a violent, brute of a man who had openly murdered people who stood in his way. It’s gripping stuff and, to me, it felt like a mix of a Grisham courtroom drama combined with the political double-dealing of an episode of House of Cards. Anyway, the story is a fictional biography centering on the legendary orator, Cicero, as told by his private secretary, Tiro.
And as a legacy of those days I’ve retained an interest in events that formed the world in which we live. Despite being set in antiquity it reads like a contemporary legal thriller such as you might expect from John Grisham, and the book really takes off. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.Cicero is shrewd and not entirely clean himself, in the sense that, as a politician, he often has to do business with people he finds detestable.
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