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Kirkus Reviews says the book is "a rousing and richly satisfying take on some of history's real beings. Gaius Marius, brilliant military leader and six-term Roman consul, heads the cast of a hefty historical novel replete with politics, social infighting, bloody battles and domestic drama. He is an aristocrat from the far provinces, a man of wealth but little social standing in a society that values ancestry highly.

2003, UK, Arrow Books ( ISBN 0-09-928052-3), Pub date 7 August 2003, paperback Gaius Marius is the primary character of The First Man in Rome.

2003, USA, Pocket Books ( ISBN 0-5), Pub date ? November 2003, paperback.

2002, UK, Century Press ( ISBN 0-7126-8056-X), Pub date 7 November 2002, hardback (First edition).

Lucius Marcius Philippus, stepfather of Octavius.

Julius Caesar, figuratively the best war horse in Rome, represents the October Horse in this novel.

Then two teams, one from the Subura and the other from the Via Sacra, competed for the Horse's head. The title of the book comes from a peculiar chariot race in Rome on the Ides of October, after which the right-hand horse of the winning team was sacrificed to the Roman gods.