TY  - BOOK
AU  - Colleen McCullough
TI  - The First Man in Rome
SN  - 9780380710812
AV  - PR9619.3.M32 
U1  - 823 
PB  - Avon
KW  - Historical Fiction
N2  - When the world cowered before the legions of Rome, two extraordinary men dreamed of personal glory: the military genius and wealthy rural "upstart" Marius, and Sulla, penniless and debauched but of aristocratic birth. Men of exceptional vision, courage, cunning, and ruthless ambition, separately they faced the insurmountable opposition of powerful, vindictive foes. Yet allied they could answer the treachery of rivals, lovers, enemy generals, and senatorial vipers with intricate and merciless machinations of their own -- to achieve in the end a bloody and splendid foretold destiny ... and win the most coveted honor the Republic could bestow
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