"Dictator" is the final volume in Robert Harris' trilogy about the life of Cicero, the Roman statesman and philosopher, whose political theories and prose style remained influential until at least ...

Opinion 'Dictator' by Robert Harris - a novel about ancient Rome, but a reflection of our own politics: John L. Micek. Updated: ; Jan. 17, 2016, 3:00 p.m. | Published ...

Julius has increased a bit from its 1994 low point. That’s probably because the similar Julian has boomed. Perhaps in another ...

Dictator, the final installment in the "Cicero trilogy", finds the great lawyer exiled from Rome. By Daisy Dunn If ever a Roman was lucky enough to win a great military victory without losing too many ...

Accounts, embellished by William Shakespeare, tell how the Roman dictator was stabbed to death by a group of aggrieved senators on the Ides of March - March 15 - in 44 BC. Sign up here.

Dictator is Robert Harris' final book in his fictional trilogy on Marcus Tullius Cicero, which began with Imperium (2006), centring on Cicero's prosecution of Sicily's Roman governor, Verres, then ...

In this case, though, the drama isn't about the plot, which was written some 400 years ago, but about the way Julius Caesar, an ancient Roman dictator, is depicted: in a business suit with an ...