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A Time Travellers Guide to Ancient Rome - by one of the best historians of the ancient world
Living in ancient Rome was superbly and vividly ...
In the middle of the second century AD, Rome was at its prosperous and powerful apex. The emperor Marcus Aurelius reigned over a vast territory ...
The story of Rome's richest man, who died a humiliating desert death in search of military glory
"A perfectly paced biography."-Tom Holland, Times ...
The tragic life of Julian, the last non-Christian emperor of Rome, by award-winning author Philip Freeman
Flavius Claudius Julianus, or Julian the Apostate, ruled Rome ...
Cruel control freaks, diligent workaholics or extravagant teenagers? What were the emperors of Rome really like?
In her international best-seller SPQR, Mary Beard told the ...
Ancient Rome matters.
Its history of empire, conquest, cruelty and excess is something against which we still judge ourselves. Its myths and stories - from Romulus ...
The story of Messalina - third wife of Emperor Claudius and one of the most notorious women to have inhabited the Roman world.
The lubricious image ...
Between 27 BCE and 476 CE a series of men became Roman Emperor, ruling a domain that stretched across Europe, North Africa and the Near ...
A revised edition of Robert Graves' classic translation (9780140449211), with completely fresh editorial material
As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, the scholar Suetonius had ...
Here's how the history of the Roman Empire usually goes...
We start with Romulus, go on to Brutus overthrowing Tarquin, bounce through an appallingly ...
A definitive history of ancient Rome that tells the story of its dramatic rise and fall in rich visual detail
Immerse yourself in the history ...
'Fascinating ... illuminating ... Stephenson examines ordinary life, painting a vivid and intriguing picture.' - The Times
Long before Rome fell to the Ostrogoths in AD 476, a ...
The Roman army was the greatest fighting machine the ancient world produced. The Roman Empire depended on soldiers not just to win its wars, defend ...
A portrait of one of the ancient world's first political celebrities, who veered from failure to success and back again
"This colorful biography of ...
'Buy the book; it's very entertaining.' David Aaronovitch, The Times
A Financial Times, BBC History and Spectator Book of the Year
On 8 June ...