{"product_id":"cicero-trilogy","title":"Cicero Trilogy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e______________________________\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''One of the great triumphs of contemporary historical literature.'' \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e______________________________\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Laws are silent in times of war.'' Cicero\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of the great epics of political and historical fiction, \u003ci\u003eThe Cicero Trilogy \u003c\/i\u003echarts the career of the Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero from his mid-twenties as an ambitious young lawyer to his dramatic death more than thirty years later, pursued by an assassination squad on a cliff-top path.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe extraordinary life that unfolds between these two episodes is recounted by Cicero''s private secretary, Tiro: the law cases and the speeches that made his master''s name; the elections and conspiracies he fought; the rivals who contended for power around him - Pompey, Crassus, Cato, Clodius, Catalina, and, most menacingly, Caesar; and, at the heart of it all, the complex personality of Cicero himself - brilliant, cunning, duplicitous, anxious, brave, and always intensely humane.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMore than ten years in the writing, and now published in a single volume for the first time, \u003ci\u003eThe Cicero Trilogy \u003c\/i\u003ebrings the world of the Roman republic vividly to life. Here is its grandeur, ambition and corruption; and here is its tumultuous collapse into dictatorship and anarchy - a story of the fragility of democratic institutions that holds a warning for our own time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57314496020862,"sku":"NW9781786332929","price":29.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/cicero-trilogy","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}