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July 04, 2008

'cicero the patriot' – review by n.s. gill

in association with amazon.com N.S. Gill writes:

Cicero the Patriot, by Rose Williams, is an amusing anecdotal look at the life of one of Rome's most versatile late Republican figures, Marcus Tullius Cicero.

In the same humorous vein as her The Labors of Aeneas - What a Pain It Was to Found the Roman Race, Rose Williams puts the great Roman statesman firmly in his place, beginning with an introductory quotation from Seneca about Cicero, which Williams translates for the reader as, "He praised his own achievements not without cause but without end."  Full Review

(note postscript below)

I do have The Labors of Aeneas and have thoroughly enjoyed it.

Cicero The Patriot & The Labors of Aeneas: What a Pain It Was to Found the Roman Race by Rose Williams

just discovered:  Once Upon the Tiber

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