Introduction

This week i'm going to recommend picking up the spartacus war by berry strauss, a new take on the old slave revolt that made pompey famous and made crassus mad. The anxiety that surrounded trajan's day to day health was palpable. Compounding everyone's fears was the fact that trajan had paid almost no attention to the issue of succession cly. Another round of civil wars just might be how we determine who the eventual ruler, who will inevitably be worse than trajan, will be.