Book · 2011 · History
Rubicon
The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic
Why people recommend it
Who recommended it
- Steve Levitt Discussed
- Tom Holland Discussed
Steve Levitt — 3 mentions
Discussed
“Tom Holland wrote a book called Rubicon that tackles the downfall of Rome's democracy.”
Discussed
“So, you've written a book Rubicon, which is about the end of the Roman Republic and Julius Caesar is the central player in that.”
Discussed
“Now reading Rubicon, if I understand correctly, one of the reasons that Caesar brought the troops to Rome and essentially started civil war was because he was facing criminal charges in Rome”
Tom Holland — 2 mentions
Discussed
“I always remember when I was researching Rubicon, reading the letters of Cicero, this great corpus of correspondence from Rome's greatest orator of his day, a contemporary of Julius Caesar.”
Discussed
“When I was writing Rubicon, in my head, I had my best friend from school who literally knew nothing about history.”
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Other mentions (3: passing, ad reads, own books)
Own book
“And so I wrote Rubicon because Rome was what I had particularly loved as a child and going through my teens.”
Own book
“and I remember when I was writing my first book Rubicon which is about the collapse of the Roman Republic the great kind of the Warlords of the late Republic”
Own book
“so the first Rubicon was about the fall of the Roman Republic mentioned that the second dynasty was Dynasty”