Fortune's Favorites (Masters of Rome #3) by Colleen McCullough

They were blessed by the gods at birth with wealth and privilege. In atime of cataclysmic upheaval, a bold new generation of Romans vied forgreatness amid the disintegrating remnants of their beloved Republic. But there was one who towered above them all -- a brilliant and beautiful boy whose ambition was unequaled, whose love was legend and whose glory was Rome's. A boy they would one day call "Caesar."