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Originally Posted by hildea
If you like Roman history, have you read Maureen McCollough's First Man in Rome series? I think it went downhill when Gaius Julius Caesar (grandson of the Gaius Julius Caesar we met in the opening scene of the first book) grew up. He became so over-the-top competent in everything -- that might be historically plausible, but I found him annoying. I stopped halfway through the last book, but I've gone back to reread favourite parts of the first books more than once.
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I think you mean Colleen McCollough. I'd also recommend her Song of Troy, her retelling of The Iliad.