[elli1]

I'm reading Colleen McCullough's The First Man In Rome. Good book. Anyway, she has quite a lot of detail about family life among the patricians of Rome in the first century BC. Good balance w/ the political & military intrigue. I'd highly recommend the book to anyone interested in ancient Rome. It's the first book in a series.

[Snuffington]

I'm reading Colleen McCullough's The First Man In Rome. Good book.

An understatement. It's an amazing book. And astonishingly faithful to history (allowing for the fact that a lot of the action takes place in areas where we have no direct historical ecords). Every time I thought I found a historical error in it, I went back to historical sources and found she was right and my own recollection was faulty.

Read the whole series.