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The October Horse: A Novel of Caesar and Cleopatra (Masters of Rome #6)

Colleen McCullough

Paperback | Pages: 1110 pages

Rating: 4.29 | 5140 Users | 174 Reviews

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Title	:	The October Horse: A Novel of Caesar and Cleopatra (Masters of Rome #6)
Author	:	Colleen McCullough
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 1110 pages
Published	:	October 28th 2003 by Pocket Books (first published November 26th 2002)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction

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A SWEEPING EPIC OF ANCIENT ROME FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE THORN BIRDSWith her renowned storytelling gifts in full force, Colleen McCullough delivers a breathtaking novel that is both grand in scope and vivid in detail -- and proves once again why she is the top historical novelist of our time.

In the last days of the Roman Republic, Gaius Julius Caesar is both adored and despised -- but his rule is unshakable. Forced by civil war to leave his beguiling mistress Cleopatra, Caesar turns his eye to the future: who is to inherit the throne of Roman power? But in the shadows of the empire, the talk is of murder. Who among his associates has the cunning and skill to fell the fierce leader -- and brave the dangerous consequences of that cataclysmic act?

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Original Title:	The October Horse: A Novel of Caesar and Cleopatra
ISBN:	0671024205 (ISBN13: 9780671024208)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Masters of Rome #6
Characters:	Gaius Cassius Longinus, Brutus, Cleopatra, Marcus Agrippa, Marcus Antonius, Augustus, Julius Caesar, Marcus Tullius Cicero
Setting:	Alexandria(Egypt) Rome(Italy)

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The penultimate novel of the series focuses on Caesar's relationship with Cleopatra, the famous assassination on 15 March 44 BC, and the subsequent events. My favorite part of the novel was definitely Gaius Octavius (later knows as Augustus). I loved his cold-blooded approach and his determination to punish every one of Caesar's assassins. His intelligence and innate talent to play the political games quickly turned him into my absolute favorite character of the series.In fact, I had a similar

Historical fiction can inform of critical past events while entertaining the reader, but it risks the error of focusing ones view on the illusion raised by the author. In this case, Romes greatest citizen, Gaius Julius Caesar, is presented as an ambiguous and complex human being, whose moods inexplicably run the spectrum from everymans advocate to divine dictator.In a tangle of dialog that undertakes the task of attributing motive and reason to the cohorts and events of Caesars last days,

The October Horse is an engaging read filled with Roman politics, warfare, treason and plotting (against Julius Caesar). Though its part of a series, I highly enjoyed it as it was and its remarkable how Collen McCullough made Ancient Rome and the famous city of Alexandria come back to life.If you love Ancient history, give this book or the entire series a try. I will definitely read more of it.

My feelings ran rampant as I read this book. I started this chunkster on January 1 and I finally ended it today. I loved the action parts - it is set during a Roman Civil War - which were very violent. This heavily-researched tome with multiple Roman names became overwhelming at times. There were moments when I found myself not looking forward to reading because the characters were numerous, but factual, and that is not like me. I think instead of a series of six; it should consist of twelve

This historical fiction series is worth reading- stick with it. The reader gets the non-fiction, the real characters set in the author's personal creative landscape where she recreates the characters and invents a few fictional ones in a setting that could make this a compelling read. You will meet the young Octavian who changes dramatically into this new person after his adoptive father's (Julius Caesar) death. Octavian grows and rises into the Emperor Augustus Caesar.The story of Julius Caesar

McCullough is a masterful storyteller and her love and mastery of Roman history shines brightly in her Roman fiction. This book in her Masters of Rome series gives us the story of Julius Caesar in his prime, the beginnings of discontent within a faction of the Patricians in Rome, the plot and execution thereof to kill him, the rivalry between Octavius and Mark Anthony following his death and the ultimate rise of Octavian, who would eventually become known as Augustus Caesar, Julius Caesar's

Not quite as good as the rest of the series, yet still excellent.