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Marcus Tullius Cicero - Roman politician, writer and orator
Cicero had the misfortune to be ambitious during the time of Pompey the Great and Julius Caesar. His attempts to preserve the Roman republic were unsuccessful. He was not a conspirator in Caesar's death, but Marcus Antonius had him killed because they had been opponents for years.
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Robert Harris is working on a very good trilogy about Cicero that begins with Imperium. It's a refreshing change from pro-Julius Caesar fiction. Too much focus on Legendary Women of History led us to realize we'd been neglecting the men, so we began this page. Nancy
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John Maddox Roberts has written a good mystery series, SPQR, set in Cicero's Rome where the great man is a minor player along with Mithradates and many names you will know. Good stuff. Begin with The King's Gambit.
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Kings of Israel
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Like most people, I had only heard of Herod the Great as the king of the Jews who ordered the Biblical slaughter of innocents as well as the murders of his favorite wife and three of his kids. But in Kings of the Jews, by Norman Gelb, I read about his impressive balancing act with Rome, his massive building projects, and his honorary life presidency of the greek Olympics. Gelb's informative book begins with King Saul and runs through all the royals who led the Jewish people, including two women. It's a must read for ancient history buffs.
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Julian the Apostate is the Roman emperor Christians love to hate because he was raised as a Christian, but tried to turn the empire back to its pagan roots. Other than that, he was a great ruler.
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There are several good novels about Julian. I recommend Michael Curtis Ford's Gods and Legions, the first of several books about the fall of the Roman Empire, and Gore Vidal's classic, Julian the Apostate.
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Mithradates the Great, King of Pontus, King of Kings
Mithradates had it all, but Rome was expanding when he came to power and he couldn't beat the Roman war machine. Along the way, he won battles, hearts and minds, but he also ordered the slaughter of every Roman in the eastern Mediterranean (maybe 80,000, maybe many more), murdered a number of family members before they killed him, and killed other family members because they deserved it (like the son he had executed because the mother made an alliance with Pompey the Great of Rome).
In an alternate universe, Mithradates could have devoted himself to being a good ruler and the study of poisons - oh wait, he did those things to the point where his body rejected the poison he used to attempt suicide.
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Adrienne Mayor was already a favorite author of mine before I read The Poison King. Her biography of Mithradates is interesting, informative and an enjoyable read. I had no idea the man was a mythic hero, the world's first great expert on toxins, the perfect (except for those pesky murdered family members) hero, Rome's deadliest enemy, and number 8 on Aelian's Top 11 List of Gluttons of the Ancient World.
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Usually, biography is not as entertaining as fiction, but Michael Curtis Ford's The Last King did not measure sp to The Poison King.
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