If the makers of Gladiator had picked up this book, that would have been a real movie. Brilliant! - WILLIAM PRICE FOX
Most of us are familiar with the Caesar of Shakespeare and Shaw. We know him primarily as the manipulative warlord and statesman.
But what about the Caesar of Plutarch and Suetonius-historians who also dealt with Caesar the younger man?
Here, in this stunning first novel, written with all the excitement and eloquence of an epic poem, we find Caesar at the age of twenty-five captured by pirates as he sails to the Is-land of Rhodes to study rhetoric with the renowned Apollonias Molon.
In an odd sort of way, Caesar finds, in the encounter with Cut-ter-the clever, bloodthirsty pirate and his band of assassins a new strength of purpose, an unexpected vehicle for him to hone his tactical skills, something he must develop if he is to equal or surpass his contemporaries. After all, weren't Crassus and Pompey the Great already famous generals in their twenties?
In eloquent and burnished prose, Vincent Panella has Caesar tell the�