The Grass Crown

by Colleen McCullough
read Oct 13, 1996
reviewed October 16, 2007
****

Second book of McCullough’s Masters of Rome series which covers the end of the republic from Marius to Antony, 110 BC to the Battle of Actium in 31 and Octavian’s assumption of the title Augustus in 27.

McCullough has managed to paint the sociopathic Sulla with a sympathetic brush.

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