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Old 01-05-2008, 07:03 PM   #15
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Originally Posted by Liviu_5 View Post
I do not understand this remark; October Horse ends with Phillippi, and Antony and Cleopatra picks up from there and goes to the final showdown between Caesar Octavian and Antony, and a little beyond when Caesar Octavian becomes Augustus in 27 B.C. Considering that Augustus went on to be the Princeps until his death in A.D. 14, so another 40+ years, there is a lot of material to cover if she wants to go there.

Both this book and October Horse are available legally as e-books, the others are not, but since the series is popular I would bet a lot they are available on the darknet

And regarding the series timeline, well

The First Man in Rome - rise of Marius and Sulla, war with Jugurtha and with the germans (~115-99 BC)
Grass Crown - the Italian war and then the split and conflict between Marius and Sulla (~99-86 BC)
Fortune's Favorites - the first civil war, the rise of Pompeius, Crassus and the young Caesar, war with Spartacus in Italy and Sertorius in Spain (~83 BC - 70 BC)
Caesar's Women - final pirate and Asian wars, Caesar's ascension in politics and his alliance with Pompeius and Crassus (~70 BC - 58 BC)
Caesar - The war in Gaul and the split with Pompeius leading to civil war and Pharsalus (~54BC - 48BC)
October Horse - Egypt and the rest of the civil war (Africa, Spain), the triumph and assasination of Caesar, the war between his followers led by Antony and Octavian, and the republicans led by Cassius and Brutus ending at Phillippi (48BC -42BC)
Antony and Cleopatra - the split between Caesar Octavian and Antony and their final showdown (42BC - 27BC)

So quite a unitary series.
My memory was wrong and I took the heading on the October Horse to mean the series was completed with it "The long awaited conclusion to the acclaimed masters of rome series"....thanks for that I stand completely corrected.

I actually had checked it out at a bookstore and found it full of their love story - must have been just the pages I had looked at and I drew a totally wrong conclusion as a result. Because of you I now have another book to read, thanks and apologies for the misinformation.
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