How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable? The characters were so fascinating and alive! What a wonderful study of their culture. To read it made me feel as though I were living in Roman times. The abriged version has ruined this creative work-made it unoriginal and boring in presentation- like hearing Cliff Notes! I bought and read this book years ago. Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
Rich with unforgettable characters and unerring historical accuracy, The First Man in Rome is a vivid tale of power, treachery, and a great Republic hurtling toward civil war. Together the two men will shape history as they are thrust into a raging storm - engaging in deadly political contests and waging far-off wars for a state battling to hold on to its enormous power. Sulla, a pleasure-seeking aristocrat without money of his own, is transformed by his ambitions into a fierce and daring warrior. Marius, a heroic man of strength and means, lacks the noble blood to contend for the First Man, but overcomes his common status when he marries into the patrician house of Caesar. at the height of the Roman Republic, two men set their sights on becoming the First Man - the Roman more respected than any other. To be the First Man in Rome was something far better than kingship." A beauty he had never been, never would be."The First Man in Rome was not the best man: he was the First among other men who were his equals. His hair was getting a bit thin on top, but he still had enough dark brown curls to brush forward into a respectable coiffure.
Nothing to be ashamed of about his physique! No matter how ostensibly inert his days might be, he got in a fair amount of exercise, worked with the dumbbells and the closhes, swam if he could several times across the Tiber in the reach called the Trigarium, then ran all the way back from the far perimeter of the Campus Martius to his house on the flanks of the Capitoline Arx. Mind you, at forty-seven he was still a fine figure of a man. Many men in Marius's position would have lain back in the bath water and demanded that they be scrubbed, scraped, and massaged by slaves, but Gaius Marius preferred to do his own dirty work, even now. “I think I'll wear the Chian outfit,' he said to his body servant standing waiting for orders.
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