Summary Of Rubicon By Tom Holland

Rubicon by Tom Holland traces the events and characters that sealed the fate of the five hundred-year old Republican government. Rubicon surveys the decades of the Roman Republic, from the civil war, with Rome’s Italian allies to the reign of Augustus Caesar. It starts with Julius Caesar crossing the Rubicon, which ultimately leads to the Republic collapsing.

Holland takes you on a trip through the last decades of the Roman Republic in the last century B.C. He tells the stories of the main players in detail from the dictator Sulla to the first emperor, Augustus Caesar. Along the way we meet Cato, the war hero Pompey the Great, Cicero, Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, etc., some of history’s most important men and women. We start to understand what