Volume 3 of Harris's fictional biography of Cicero is, if possible, even better than the others. Narrated by Tiro - his secretary, one-time slave now a free Roman - based on Cicero's speeches and writings and Tiro's own work, this thrilling epic of the tumultuous events following the Republic's fall is also an intimate portrait of the brilliant orator, a hero for his time and ours. Harris surpasses himself and does great credit to the historian he really is.
(Kathie Somerwil Ayrton - bwl 79 Winter 2016 ) |
