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EuSei
Apr 22, 2012EuSei rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Good enough to read the whole book... although Mrs. McCullough took lots of license with historical information. (Read Appius and Plutarch and you will know what I mean.) For instance, I wonder where she got the idea that Marius and Rutilius were friends and maintained correspondence. Also, why would she conclude Sulla had sexual relations (at the same time) with both his step-mother and Nicopolis? The only thing, for example, I could find was a mention in Plutarch, that he inherited money from "a step-mother who loved him as her own son." Also that "he made court to a common but rich lady, Nicopolis" and that "she rather than he was the lover, and that at her death she bequeathed him her whole property." And where did she get the idea that there were no chickens in Rome?! Not only they had and ate them, but also used them for oracles. I guess during her “meticulous research” she did not come across Columella, Cato, Varro, or Pliny…