Caesar's Women (Masters of Rome Series)

New York Times bestselling author Colleen McCullough re-creates an extraordinary epoch before the mighty Republic belonged to Julius Caesarwhen Rome's noblewomen were his greatest conquest. His victories were legendin battle and bedchamber alike. Love was a political weapon he wielded cunningly and ruthlessly in his private war against enemies in the forum. Genius, general, patrician, Gaius Julius Caesar was history. His wives bought him influence. He sacrificed his beloved daughter on the altar of ambition. He burned for the cold-hearted mistress he could never dare trust. Caesar's women all knewand fearedhis power. He adored them, used them, destroyed them on his irresistible rise to prominence. And one of them would seal his fate. The story of Julius Caesar on the theme that behind every man there stands a woman. In this case there were several, among them his strong-willed mother, his formidable mistress and his beautiful daughter, whom he married to Pompey in order to cement an alliance. The story is told against the background of everyday life in ancient Rome, detailing the mores and manners of the day. By the author of The First Man in Rome After achieving many victories on the battlefields, Caesar undertakes his greatest challenge in his quest to conquer the Roman Forum and the many Roman noblewomen who fall victim to his charismatic charms and forceful passions The fourth novel of the Masters of Rome series focuses on the women in the life of the Roman emperor Gaius Julius Caesar at the height of his power The story of Julius Caesar and his rise to fame in Rome_ "Brutus, I don't like the look of your skin.