Book Review: Under Another Sky
/Part history, part travel guide, part novel - a wonderful new book takes readers on a tour of Roman Britain
Read MoreBook Review: Brothers in Blood
/In the latest Roman historical novel from old pro Simon Scarrow, two heroic legionaries are chasing an infamous local warlord in Britannia - and facing treachery from within their own ranks
Read MoreBook Review: Rome's Revolution
/The epic change in ancient Rome from a Republic to an Empire hinged on one man: Julius Caesar. A new history tells the familiar story.
Read MoreBook Review: The War at the Edge of the World
/A decorated Roman soldier accompanies a dangerous mission into barbarian territory in 4th century Britain
Read MoreBook Review: Taken at the Flood
/Poe's neat pairing of "the glory that was Greece" and "the grandeur that was Rome" belies the complexity of Republican Rome's rapid expansion into the greater Mediterranean world and Asia Minor, the fascinating subject of Robin Waterfield's new book
Read MoreIn Paperback: Dark Omens
/Dauntless mosaic-layer Libertus returns for another side-job of crime-solving in Rosemary Rowe's latest gripping murder mystery set in Roman Britain
Read MoreBook Review: The Twelve Caesars
/The ancient Roman historian Suetonius wrote such a rollicking, gossipy book about the first twelve emperors that historians have been re-writing his book ever since
Read MoreBook Review: Horace and Me
/A columnist for the Financial Times looks at what the Roman poet Horace has meant to him over the years
Read MoreBook Review: The Ides of April
/Fans of Lindsey Davis' long-running mystery series starring ancient Roman P. I. Falco now get the first volume in a new series featuring his intrepid daughter following in his footsteps
Read MoreBook Review: The Murder of Cleopatra
/When examining the death of Cleopatra, it's inevitable: sooner or later, you're going to have to deal with asp-holes
Read MoreBook Review: A Jew Among Romans
/A new - and forgiving? - look at the ancient Jewish historian whose very name has been hated for two thousand years.
Read MoreBook Review: Legions of Rome
/A comprehensive - and visually stunning - overview of the mighty Roman legions and the world they helped to shape.
Read MoreBook Review: Master and God
/An ambitious historical novel about the dark days of the emperor Domitian by the popular mystery author Lindsey Davis.
Read MoreNow in Paperback: Hadrian
/A lavishly illustrated biography of the Roman emperor Hadrian - now in bookstores in paperback - takes readers inside the world of an empire (and its ruler) undergoing one long identity crisis
Read MoreBook Review: The Frontiers of Imperial Rome
/The frontiers of ancient Rome - the limits by which it defined both itself and its enemies - stretched from the Tigris and Euphrates to the Irish Sea. In this muscular new study, those frontiers take center stage.
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