Book recs plz. Need books. Gib roman history primacy plz.

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Will post David for recs

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picked this up yesterday, hope its as good as claimed.

>>1915155
It's good, but Imperium and Lustrum were better.
Granted, it would have been hard to make a better book out of Cicero's old age compared to his political prime, so it's not a slight on the author, who actually wrote a fairly excellent trilogy. Mind you, all three books are strongly biased in favour of Cicero, since he's the main character.

>>1914737
Rubicon. It's pretty good.

https://www.amazon.com/Rubicon-Last-Years-Roman-Republic/dp/1400078970

>>1915213
just now discovered its a trilogy, do you recommend starting with the first? because i have the third at hand now.

>>1915213
is it strongly biased against caesar?

>>1915286
>do you recommend starting with the first?
Well yes. I mean it's not like you're gonna get spoilers, aside from a few characters shifting allegiances (and even then you might know almost all of them, there's really only a couple obscure ones), but still it's nicer to read trilogies in chronological order. Grab them off Library Genesis, they've got good versions.

>>1915289
It really is. Reading through it you'd think he was just a smarter (and even more wicked) Clodius. But then all characters are like this: depraved and corrupt monsters when they're Cicero's opponents, and then suddendly much more honourable when Cicero changes sides and find himself pitted against even worse monsters. But it's not really something you should criticize, since it's meant to be history by the point of view of Cicero's most loyal follower after all. It's not like it's a history book, it's a novel.

OP, there is only so many books available from that time, and likely more than half are lost -- never to be read again.

What we know is what we know. Everything else is conjecture. Go read something else.

Sage.