Goldsworthy's Caesar-focused biography and Robert Harris's Cicero-focused fiction trilogy cover the same late-Republican years but illuminate them from opposing vantage points. Pairing a single-volume authoritative non-fiction with a dramatized interior view from a rival figure turns a one-perspective history into a stereo one. The same decade looks fundamentally different depending on who you make protagonist.
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