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Robert Harris:
If you could have been present at any event during the Roman Empire, what would it have been?
Robert Harris
A strange choice, I know, but I would have loved to have been at the final dinner that Cicero gave for Julius Caesar in December 45 BC, three months before Caesar’s assassination. It is described in Dictator. Caesar turned up with a bodyguard of 1,000 men, and afterwards Cicero wrote to Atticus that although it had been an enjoyable occasion “he is not the kind of man to whom one says, ‘do drop by the next time you are in the neighbourhood.’�
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Malia
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Robert Harris:
I'm a huge fan of your historical fiction - the Cicero series and An Officer and a Spy in particular - (and have converted both my parents as well;-) I'm wondering, how you decide on the subjects and historical focus of your novels? Do your decisions stem from a prior fascination with a figure or are they the development of a historical tidbit you heard of and wanted to explore further?
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