The history, wars, society, and political life of ancient Rome and its vast empire and how it remains with us today.

During the tumultuous reign of Nero, Vinicius, a pagan, and Ligia, a Christian, fall in love.

An illustrated survey of the history, people, and everyday life in ancient Rome.

Explores ancient Rome and its cities, including what Romans learned from the Greeks and Etruscans and the features of modern cities we owe to the ingenuity of the Romans.

Traces the history of ancient Rome, from the beginnings of the Republic through the rise and fall of the Empire, and includes information on Roman culture, art and architecture, religion, and daily life.

"In 22 BC, amid a series of natural disasters and political and economic crises, a mob locked Rome's senators into the Senate House and threatened to burn them alive if they did not make Augustus dictator. Why did Rome--to this day one of the world's longest-lived republics--exchange freedom for autocracy? Mortal Republic is a new history of the fall of the Roman Republic that explains why Rome made this trade. Prizewinning historian Edward J. Watts...

Explore the life and career of Julius Caesar.

Sharing a ewer of Spanish red with his old friend and new partner Petronius Longus, Marcus Didius Falco is on the spot when a man cleaning the local fountain makes a gruesome discovery: a human hand that suggests its owner met a terrifying fate. Naturally, Falco and Petro, formerly of the Vigiles, want to seize on it as their first big case. The officials of Rome, however, prefer to hush up the incident, since a population that riots at the drop

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