Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO), December 14th, 2007
Byline: Joan Hinkemeyer, Special to the Rocky
Fiction.
By Colleen McCullough. Simon & Schuster, $28.
Grade: A-
Plot in a nutshell: The seventh installment in McCullough's sprawling "Masters of Rome" series features legendary lovers Antony and Cleopatra surrounded by a rich cast of their Roman contemporaries, such as Caesar Augustus, Herod, Agrippa, Nero and the politically savvy Livia Drusilla.
As with her earlier works in this series, McCullough fills copious pages with accounts of wars. The sheer number of combatants is staggering, with 50,000 here, 20,000 there and routine demands fo...
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