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[Anthony Everitt's] achievement is to have replaced the austere classroom effigy with an altogether rounder more awkward and human person. -- Financial Times ' Not just an excellent biography, but also a fine history of Rome in the first century BC' -- Andrew Roberts, Sunday Telegraph ' Unobtrusively crammed with fascinating information about Roman life and customs, splendidly clear and coherent in it narrative and altogether convincing in its portraiture' -- Anthony Cronin, Sunday Independent An engrossing book ... Everitt brings [Cicero] alive, making him a credible as well as a remarkable figure. -- Literary Review

Anthony Everitt was Deputy Secretary-General of the Arts Council from 1985 to 1990 and Secretary-General until 1994. As well as THE FIRST EMPEROR, he is the author of the acclaimed biography CICERO: A TURBULENT LIFE, also published by John Murray.

The Ides of March; Always be the Best - the Bravest; the sacred space; a new man as consul; pretty-boy's revenge; fall and decline; the ideal constitution; Cilician interlude; A Strange Madness; winner takes all; Cedant arma togae; Why, this is violence; Caesar's heir; first man in Rome; death at the seaside; judgement.