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Who has read Colleen McCullough's Rome series? Rebekah Send a noteboard - 10/01/2016 08:43:03 PM

I'm about halfway through First Man of Rome (hard to tell on a Kindle, mind you) and I'm wondering how historically accurate it is.

It's a good few years since I read Robin Lane Fox's excellent book The Classical World: An Epic History from Homer to Hadrian and I've forgotten a lot.

I might also need recommendations for a good factual book on that time period - possibly from 200BC to AD100 or something like that. Any suggestions?

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Who has read Colleen McCullough's Rome series? - 10/01/2016 08:43:03 PM 1009 Views
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