num_pages: 1032
description: With extraordinary narrative power, New York Times bestselling author Colleen McCullough sweeps the reader into a whirlpool of pageantry and passion, bringing to vivid life the most glorious epoch in human history. When the world cowered before the legions of Rome, two extraordinary men dreamed of personal the military genius and wealthy rural "upstart" Marius, and Sulla, penniless and debauched but of aristocratic birth. Men of exceptional vision, courage, cunning, and ruthless ambition, separately they faced the insurmountable opposition of powerful, vindictive foes. Yet allied they could answer the treachery of rivals, lovers, enemy generals, and senatorial vipers with intricate and merciless machinations of their own—to achieve in the end a bloody and splendid foretold destiny . . . and win the most coveted honor the Republic could bestow.
language: English
title: The First Man in Rome
titlecomplete: The First Man in Rome (Masters of Rome, #1)
characters: Gaius Marius, Lucius Cornelius Sulla
genres: Epic, Historical, Roman, Ancient History, Italy, Novels, War, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Politics
ratings_count: 22511
places: Rome
series: Gospodari Rima, Masters of Rome
publisher: Centuary