Book Review: Legible Religion
/How do you manage to have religion without scripture? As a fascinating new book demonstrates, inn this as in so many other seemingly impossible paradoxes, the ancient Romans found a way.
Read MoreKeeping Up With the Romans - Hits and Myths
/Two thousand years ago, the Roman historian Suetonius wrote about the lives and loves of the founding rulers of the Roman Empire. Historian Tom Holland takes up the familiar story in his new book Dynasty.
Read MoreBook 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: Lady of the Eternal City
/Sabina, the wife of the enigmatic Roman emperor Hadrian, is beset by enemies in Rome - and safeguards a secret they'd all kill to know ...
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 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 MoreSupping with Glaucus: A Tour of Roman Historical Fiction
/Steve Donoghue takes the emperor’s box to thumbs-up or thumbs-down an array of Roman historical novels, as “A Year with the Romans” continues.
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.
Read MoreKeeping Up with the Romans: The Phenomenon of Her
/She's one of the most famous names in history, and the only figure in antiquity to rival Julius Caesar's renown--but what do we really know about Cleopatra? Stacy Schiff's biography takes us behind the legend.
Read MoreKeeping Up with the Romans: The Senator Investigates
/He toadied to a succession of emperors and trembled at the mere thought of being mugged -- on the surface, it looks odd to cast Pliny the Younger as a detective. A new mystery novel takes that chance.
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