Temnye vody Tibra - Popov M.

The first century before Christmas. The Roman Republic is rapidly expanding its borders, the appetites of patricians are growing, and with them - ambition, greed and permissiveness. Because of the arbitrariness of Rome erupts the first civil war, in which yesterday's allies with incredible cruelty began to exterminate each other. In this war, the young pretor Lucius Cornelius Sulla, who received the post of consul as a reward, distinguished himself. But just two years later, during the war with Mithridat, he was declared a traitor, and his supporters in the Senate destroyed. However, Sulla returned to Italy with a huge army and became the master of Rome - the dictator ...