Volume I of Legends and Legacies: A History of Europe from the Fall of the Roman Republic to the Fourth Crusade in Seven Volumes 

A Slow and Secret Poison is the story of the dramatic collapse of the Roman Republic, told in straightforward prose that engages the past on its own terms. Here you will find the voices of Livy, Tacitus, Pliny, and Suetonius, blended into a narrative of the most dramatic century in all of Roman history.