Empire

The first volume of a trilogy covering the last forty years of the Roman Republic, before the formation of the great Empire, arrives in Portugal. Imperium follows the lives and careers of several men who fought to dominate and govern Rome, among them Crassus, Pompey, Caesar, but especially Cicero. It is through the eyes of Tiro, Cicero's personal secretary for 36 years, that we discover the violent and perverse Roman political world, and especially how a man who does not descend from an aristocratic family, who possesses neither wealth nor military support, manages to conquer Rome with the power of his own voice. An engaging work that fascinatingly recounts the timeless struggle for power.