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"Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in. ―Isaac Asimov"

💐🌸🪷🪻- Beautiful. So true!

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Good to hear from you my friend! Hope everything is good for you and your family 💚 🥃

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Thanks for the shout out Liberty! I also recommend people check out Robert Harris' Imperium series.

Alongside McCullough's great work it's also impeccably researched - focuses on the story from the perspective of Cicero the great Roman orator (a character in the Pompey series)

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Thanks! Adding it to the list!

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Apr 10·edited Apr 10Liked by Liberty

The 75 years leading up to the fall of the Republic is so insanely cinematic, I've always been amazed that there aren't more films, TV shows etc about it.

If you like the TV show you may love Colleen McCullogh's Masters of Rome series - one of my fave book series of all time - it's a fictional account of the Sullan-Marian wars, Mithridatic & civil wars, rise of the triumverate, fall of Caesar, rise of Octavius etc etc. Although its fictional, the author held herself to an insanely high standard of research meaning it seems sufficiently grounded to be an educational read as well as an entertaining one.

https://www.penguin.co.uk/series/MASOROM/masters-of-rome

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Thanks for the rec, I haven't read those, but I did enjoy Steven Pressfield's 'Gates of Fires', which is a fictionalized version real events, so if it's anything like that, I can see the appeal!

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Have you watched shogun? Very good. Might satisfy your tv desires for an epic story.

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I haven't yet, but I've heard enough good things from people whose taste I trust that it's on the list! Thanks for the rec 👍

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