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Building an Empire from Stone and Shadow: Robert Harris’s Agrippa and the Limits of Historical Fiction

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Executive Overview Renowned historical novelist Robert Harris has returned to the blood-soaked marble corridors of antiquity with his latest release, Agrippa. Structured as a fictional autobiography, the novel purports to be the lost personal testimony of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa—the indispensable right-hand man, military genius, and political architect to the Emperor Augustus. Written from the perspective … Read more

British Culture & Arts

Building an Empire: Robert Harris Returns to Ancient Rome with Agrippa

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Executive Overview Bestselling historical fiction author Robert Harris has once again trained his literary lens on the marble-paved streets, blood-soaked battlefields, and insidious backrooms of the ancient Roman Republic and early Empire. His latest novel, Agrippa, presents a fictionalized autobiography of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa—the indispensable right-hand man, military genius, and trusted confidant of Emperor Augustus. … Read more

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