The Grass Crown

Blurb

The Grass Crown is the second historical novel in Colleen McCullough's Masters of Rome series, published in 1991.
The novel opens shortly after the action of The First Man in Rome. Gaius Marius and Lucius Cornelius Sulla eat dinner together with their wives, and discuss the threat presented by Mithridates VI of Pontus and Tigranes II of Armenia.