The Roman Traitor (Annotated)

The Roman Traitor is a vigorous historical romance set amid the Catilinarian conspiracy of 63 BCE, when republican Rome trembled between civic virtue and aristocratic ambition. Herbert reconstructs the world of Cicero, Cato, Catiline, and their contemporaries with a taste for oratorical grandeur, political intrigue, and moral contrast. Written in the nineteenth-century tradition of classical histo...