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Anthony Everitt
Anthony Everitt, visiting professor in the visual and performing arts at Nottingham Trent University, has written extensively on European culture, and is the author of Cicero and Augustus. He has served as secretary general of the Arts Council of Great Britain. Everitt lives near Colchester,... show more

Anthony Everitt, visiting professor in the visual and performing arts at Nottingham Trent University, has written extensively on European culture, and is the author of Cicero and Augustus. He has served as secretary general of the Arts Council of Great Britain. Everitt lives near Colchester, England's first recorded town, founded by the Romans.
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Elentarri's Book Blog
Elentarri's Book Blog rated it 10 years ago
A well-written, often amusing, biography of Cicero and his world.
Cassandra Reads
Cassandra Reads rated it 11 years ago
I don't have that much to say about this book. A lot of it I already knew (see that Ancient Rome class in college was good for something). There were points of the book that made me think I was really reading a book about Ceasar, since his life and that of Cicero's overlap so much at some points. ...
SF Fan Man
SF Fan Man rated it 12 years ago
Ancient history is made up of bits of information from dated manuscripts and the plausible conjectures of historians. Reading this book, I would add that the personal biases of history writers fill in the information gaps which are especially large the farther back in time we go. The end result is...
The Book High
The Book High rated it 13 years ago
This was definitely an interesting book, for more reasons that the author likely intended. This was the first biography I've read in which the opinions of the author were so unabashedly evident. Julius Caesar is discussed in tones of honor sometimes bordering on worship. Antony is vilified and vi...
Kalliope Muse speaks to me
Kalliope Muse speaks to me rated it 13 years ago
I am not sure it was a good idea to read Cicero’s biography, by a historian, right after reading a fictionalized account by a reporter and novelist (especially if the fictionalized account is not yet complete –only two volumes of the trilogy have been published – [a:Robert Harris|575|Robert Harris|h...
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