Lawless Republic

''A vivid, visceral and crucial read for our times'' BETTANY HUGHES

''Wonderful and insightful'' ADRIAN GOLDSWORTHY

The collapse of law and order in the last years of the Roman Republic told through the rise and fall of its most famous lawyer, Cicero.

In its final decades, the Roman Republic was engulfed by crime. Cases of extortion, murder and insurrection gave an ambitious young lawyer named Cicero...