TY  - BOOK
AU  - McCullough,Colleen
TI  - The first man in Rome
SN  - 0380710811 :
AV  - PR9619.3.M32 F57 1991x
U1  - fic 
PY  - 1991///, c1990
CY  - New York
PB  - Avon Books
KW  - Rome
KW  - History
KW  - Republic, 265-30 B.C
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - gsafd
N2  - A story tracing the creation of Republican Rome presents those who founded an empire, including Marius and Sulla, each determined to become the First Man of Rome. When the world cowered before the legions of Rome, two extraordinary men dreamed of personal glory: 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
UR  - http://www.archive.org/details/firstmaninromemccu00mccu
UR  - http://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL24207169M
ER  -