Series: Masters Of Rome
by Author Colleen McCullough
Fortune's Favorites (1994)
The third book in Colleen McCullough's "Masters of Rome" series, after "The First Man in Rome" and "The Grass Crown", begins just a few years after the latter. Sulla gets back to Rome, the beauty of his early days giving way to a toothless self with a hideous wig and an addiction to wine, and tru...
The Grass Crown (1992)
I used to think this book was greater than The First Man in Rome, but now that I've re-read it again, I have to say that it's not exactly as good as I thought it was. First Man rose in my estimation on a re-read, this was slightly lowered, so now I think they're pretty much even.The elements that...
The First Man in Rome (1991)
If I could have sex with this book, I would.Nothing I write can really do justice to why I love this book so much. I've just finished it for at least the 4th time (most likely the 5th), and the series will probably serve as my comfort read whenever I'm in a book slump. They're great and awesome a...
The October Horse: A Novel of Caesar and Cleopatra (2003)
I had read the final book in the series - "Antony and Cleopatra" -earlier, so this turned out to be the last book I'd have to read in the 'Masters of Rome'. That turned out be a good thing because while I liked the entire series, this would be among my top two. An excellent choice of title - borr...
Caesar's Women (1997)
Ambitious attempt to explain the ways of the Romans to modern readers. Caesar belongs to one of the oldest patrician families in Rome, the Julians, who are directly descended from the goddess Venus, and this curtails a certain dignitas that he must live up to as he aspires to become the greatest ...
Caesar (2003)
In Let the Dice FlyMcCullough compellingly manages Julius Caesar's transformation from master politician and Pontifex Maximus into autocratic general. She begins the story five years after the last book in her Masters of Rome series, Caesar's Women, not long into his second term as governor of fo...