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Caesar’s Women
Colleen McCullough, signed by author
$30.00

“Senator and debtor, general and seducer, orator and would-be world conqueror, Julius Caesar, as depicted in this fourth installment (after Fortune’s Favorites) in McCullough’s epic re-creation of ancient Rome, is both a force of nature and something of a momma’s boy. He worships his sophisticated mother Aurelia, “a fount of experience and a mine of common sense,” while dismissing as “not important” his “expensive, idle, and monumentally silly” second wife, Pompeia. Its title notwithstanding, this marvelously researched and detailed novel focuses on traditional male pursuits-political intrigue, war, conquest-in the corruption-riddled late Roman republic even as it elucidates the behind-the-scenes influence of women in a repressively patriarchal society. Caesar, though tenderly loving and protective toward his daughter, Julia, pledges her as a child to the adolescent Brutus, with whose mother-the cruel, scheming Servilia-the future dictator of Rome has a purely sexual affair. Years later, Caesar cancels the betrothal in order to use his blossoming daughter as bait to forge a political alliance…”

Publisher:
William Morrow and Compan7
Publish Date:
1996, NYC
Pages:
704
Format:
hardcover
ISBN:
0688093711X
Price:
$30.00

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