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''The bloodstained drama of the last decades of the Roman republic... is told afresh with tremendous wit, narrative verve and insight''

''I owe a debt of gratitude to Tom Holland not just for reminding me of the great figures who bestrode the Roman world - Pompey and Crassus, Cato, Cicero and Caesar - but for explaining what it was that made Rome the greatest superpower the world has known, why it ...