Anyone interested in getting a great overview of the late republic should read the Cicero trilogy by Robert Harris

Ha, I just read about the Bathhouses in Baiae yesterday in “Rubicon: triumph and tragedy of the Roman Empire”.

Sadly link seems broken :(

I think we broke it. Even archive.ph is just the error page :)

"...Is there singing in the Void? Dancing...? Surely the Dread Lord will at least allow poor Cicero to caper..."