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Since: Dec, 1969
2nd Oct, 2011 08:57:12 PM
Maybe you're thinking of the stories of Gordianus the Finder, by Steven Saylor?
loracarol
Since: Sep, 2009
2nd Oct, 2011 09:38:05 PM
Nope, but looking at the wikipedia page for Gordianus got me to Marcus Cicero, and from there to the book I was thinking- Imperium, but Robert Harris, so this actually helped me quite a bit, thank you!
This was a book about an ancient Roman (or ancient Greek, but I'm pretty sure it was Roman) man who was a lawyer, solved some mystery of some sort, and ultimately became a senator- I think.
I know for sure that it was an adult book about ancient Rome/Greece, not shying away from any details, and about a man who started as a lawyer. And I don't think it was anyone famous- or as we think of "famous", i.e. not Julius Ceaser.