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The snowballing story, impossibly interesting heroes and villains, mindboggling victories, twists, and betrayals, and the unstoppable roll to the death of the Roman Republic from Marius/Sulla through to Augustus vs. Antony and Cleopatra is better than any fictional narrative ever written. That it actually happened and it was just people doing (albeit often grand) stuff day to day and making decisions, reacting, planning, in Caesar's case sometimes gambling, and generally just trying to get by in
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Easy to read. Chronological, but also enticing. I would have liked a little more information on the Punic Wars, but I understand it's not wholly important to this particular slice of history. The timeline in the back of the book is super helpful to orient yourself when you get lost.
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