I have never read a better series of historical novels than Colleen McCullough's "Masters of Rome." As both an enthusiastic fiction reader and a doctoral student in history, I stand in awe. To recreate a historical period in the kind of living detail McCullough provides is a daunting task; to do it and to make it riveting is little short of miraculous. I discovered these books recently and out of order, and immediately had to buy all five; when "Caesar" ended after the battle of Pharsalus, I promptly got online to find out when the next book was coming out, and was very relieved to discover that I have only two months to wait. It seems a very long time. All… Read more
