the first man in rome by colleen mccullough

Cecrow: Plutarchs biographies of six key figures, including Marius and Sulla. A beauty he had never been, never would be. McCulloughs epic tale of ancient Rome explores the power struggle between an ambitious military man and a man who lost his fortune to pleasure.

Colleen McCullough (Author) Visit Amazons Colleen McCullough page. Marius is born from a non-noble family and cannot hope to get to the upper echelons of the Roman political ladder, despite being able to buy and sell half the. His hair was getting a bit thin on top, but he still had enough dark brown curls to brush forward into a respectable coiffure. The First Man in Rome Mass Market Paperback Aug. 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. The first book in the epic Masters of Rome series. 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.

The first man in rome by colleen mccullough