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Odin2005

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5. I read McCullough's Rome books last summer, loved them.

Reply to pscot (Original post)

Mon Jan 23, 2012, 09:23 PM

Jan 2012

I love the interesting educated guesses she did to flesh out the historical figures (like portraying Octavian as a asthmatic, Antony as a sociopath, Pompey as a narcissist, Marius losing his sanity before his death, Cato as a puritanical asshole with autistic tendencies, and Sulla having major entitlement issues).

I love her portrayal of Caesar as the human being he was, albeit a extremely brilliant one.

The similarity between then and now is scary. The reactionary "Boni" faction reminds me of the Teabaggers, especially Cato and Bibulus.

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