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A series of historical fiction novels by author Colleen McCullough:
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While there are hundreds if not thousands of named characters in these books, broadly speaking several major if unrelated story arcs stand out. The first two books are dominated by the friendship and later rivalry between brilliant general [[Self-Made Man|Gauis Marius]] and the icy but brilliant aristocratic [[Impoverished Patrician|Lucius Cornelius Sulla]] while most of the later works focus on the careers and lives of Pompey, Crassus, Cicero, Cato, Octavian and Mark Antony and above all [[Gaius Julius Caesar]] whose pivotal life makes him the central character of the whole story.
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* [[All Men Are Perverts]]/[[All Women Are Prudes]]: Fascinatingly inverted with Brutus and his mother Servilia; one of the (many) reasons Servilia has difficulty comprehending her son is that she has a very strong sex drive while Brutus is naturally prudish and much more sentimental than lustful.
* [[Army of Thieves and Whores]] (Marius' legion)
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* [[Broken Bird]] (Cato is a rare male - and very masculine at that - version.)
* [[Bus Crash]] (The end of Mithridates VI of Pontus is a little disappointing considering his importance and big role in ''The Grass Crown'' - not so much his actual death, which is a matter of historical record, but the way we hear about it in a letter).
* [[Death
* [[Deliberate Values Dissonance]] (Selling your daughter for political pull and cash, murder, crucifixtion, slavery, murder, adultery, murder, arson for profit and of course murder)
* [[Depraved Bisexual]] (Sulla will have sex with anything)
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* [[Even the Guys Want Him]] (Both Sulla and Caesar are so [[Bishonen|beautiful]] as youths that more than a few male characters openly lust after them)
* [[Evil Albino]] (Sulla has very, very pale skin and very pale eyes)
* [[Evil Matriarch]] (If you thought Servilia was warped on ''[[Rome]]'' wait till you see the
* [[Evil Redhead]] (Sulla. Cato is also a redhead but while he has an antagonistic role you can't real call him evil.)
* [[Face Heel Turn]] (Marius after his stroke, Pompey after Julia dies)
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* [[Two Lines, No Waiting]] (Due to [[Loads and Loads of Characters]] and [[Doorstopper|Loads And Loads Of Pages]] all the books have multiple interweaving storylines)
* [[Villain Protagonist]] (Sulla)
* [[Villain
** ("Beloved" because Octavian was using his adopted father's good publicity to promote his own political career in the eyes of the Romans. Anything that would slander Caesar would slander Octavian, as the latter tried to rub himselt with as much Caesarian clout he could think of. Including deifying Caesar and having people call him Divi Filius - [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|Son of God]]).
* [[Wild Card]] (The oily, yet strangely likable Lucius Marcius Philippus, Rome's most honestly corrupt politician - that is to say anyone can buy him but he stays bought.)
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