Title: The Decay of Marius
Product review: Following The First Man in Rome, McCullough has returned with a seductive sequel, detailing the falling out of Marius and Sulla, the slow rise of Mithridates and the final collapse of Marius' sanity and his reign of terror leading to his short-lived seventh consulship. Young Pompey arrives on the scene as the precocious youth that he is, along with Cicero as a fellow cadet. We can begin to detect some of Yong Caesar's drive as well, but at the end of the book, Sulla continues his war in the east and Rome is ruled by Cinna, glad to be free of Gaius Marius' army of freedmen and slaves. The current voice of reason in Rome is Quintus Sertorius, recipient of the grass crown and the leader of the massacre of Marius' slave army. I cannot wait for the rise of the younger generation amid Sulla's reforms: Cicero, Pompey, Crassus and Young Caesar.
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