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# Books About Rome (Ancient Rome, Fiction, etc)

By [@BookEnthusiasts](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts)

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Published 8 December 2022 · Updated 25 April 2023

Category: books & literature / non-fiction

This collection of books about Rome offers an interesting mix of both fiction and non-fiction titles. For those who are interested in learning more about the history and culture of the city, there are books like A History of Rome, Rome: A Cultural and Literary Companion, and The Roman World. For readers interested in a more immersive experience, there are titles like Rubicon, I, Claudius, and A Day In The Life of Ancient Rome. Whether you want to learn more about the city or just enjoy a good story, this list of books about Rome has something for everyone.

## Items

### 1. [I, Claudius](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/77954/books-about-rome-ancient-rome-fiction-etc/4/i-claudius)

Item ID: `4`

- Author: Robert Graves
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/a0dzdm3d7p0oimkakoyg.jpg)
- Category: Fiction, Ancient Rome
- Published in: 1934
- Pages: 468
- Available in: Ebook, Audiobook, Hardcover, Paperback
- Synopsis: Once a rather bookish young man with a limp and a stammer, a man who spent most of his time trying to stay away from the danger and risk of the line of ascension, Claudius seemed an unlikely candidate for emperor. Yet, on the death of Caligula, Claudius finds himself next in line for the throne, and must stay alive as well as keep control. Drawing on the histories of Plutarch, Suetonius, and Tacitus, noted historian and classicist Robert Graves tells the story of the much-maligned Emperor Claudius with both skill and compassion. Weaving important themes throughout about the nature of freedom and safety possible in a monarchy, Graves’s Claudius is both more effective and more tragic than history typically remembers him. A bestselling novel and one of Graves’ most successful, I, Claudius has been adapted to television, film, theatre, and audio.
- Link to buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Claudius-Autobiography-Tiberius-Murdered-International/dp/067972477X/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1670016341&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Claudius-Autobiography-Tiberius-Murdered-International/dp/067972477X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1670016341&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read?: false
- Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
- Notes: -

### 2. [SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/77954/books-about-rome-ancient-rome-fiction-etc/5/spqr-a-history-of-ancient-rome)

Item ID: `5`

- Author: Mary Beard
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/b6rj3cve50xfyvzsporr.jpg)
- Category: Nonfiction, Ancient Rome
- Published in: 2015
- Pages: 608
- Available in: Ebook, Audiobook, Hardcover, Paperback, CD
- Synopsis:
  > Ancient Rome was an imposing city even by modern standards, a sprawling imperial metropolis of more than a million inhabitants, a "mixture of luxury and filth, liberty and exploitation, civic pride and murderous civil war" that served as the seat of power for an empire that spanned from Spain to Syria. Yet how did all this emerge from what was once an insignificant village in central Italy? In S.P.Q.R., world-renowned classicist Mary Beard narrates the unprecedented rise of a civilization that even two thousand years later still shapes many of our most fundamental assumptions about power, citizenship, responsibility, political violence, empire, luxury, and beauty.
  > 
  > From the foundational myth of Romulus and Remus to 212 ce―nearly a thousand years later―when the emperor Caracalla gave Roman citizenship to every free inhabitant of the empire, S.P.Q.R. (the abbreviation of "The Senate and People of Rome") examines not just how we think of ancient Rome but challenges the comfortable historical perspectives that have existed for centuries by exploring how the Romans thought of themselves: how they challenged the idea of imperial rule, how they responded to terrorism and revolution, and how they invented a new idea of citizenship and nation.
  > 
  > Opening the book in 63 bce with the famous clash between the populist aristocrat Catiline and Cicero, the renowned politician and orator, Beard animates this “terrorist conspiracy,” which was aimed at the very heart of the Republic, demonstrating how this singular event would presage the struggle between democracy and autocracy that would come to define much of Rome’s subsequent history. Illustrating how a classical democracy yielded to a self-confident and self-critical empire, S.P.Q.R. reintroduces us, though in a wholly different way, to famous and familiar characters―Hannibal, Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, Augustus, and Nero, among others―while expanding the historical aperture to include those overlooked in traditional histories: the women, the slaves and ex-slaves, conspirators, and those on the losing side of Rome’s glorious conquests.
  > 
  > Like the best detectives, Beard sifts fact from fiction, myth and propaganda from historical record, refusing either simple admiration or blanket condemnation. Far from being frozen in marble, Roman history, she shows, is constantly being revised and rewritten as our knowledge expands. Indeed, our perceptions of ancient Rome have changed dramatically over the last fifty years, and S.P.Q.R., with its nuanced attention to class inequality, democratic struggles, and the lives of entire groups of people omitted from the historical narrative for centuries, promises to shape our view of Roman history for decades to come.
- Link to buy: [https://www.amazon.com/SPQR-History-Ancient-Mary-Beard/dp/0871404230/ref=tmm\_hrd\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1670017107&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/SPQR-History-Ancient-Mary-Beard/dp/0871404230/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1670017107&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read?: false
- Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
- Notes: -

### 3. [The Twelve Caesars](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/77954/books-about-rome-ancient-rome-fiction-etc/6/the-twelve-caesars)

Item ID: `6`

- Author: Suetonius
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/gbv0ipxywdk6y1eg9ejp.jpg)
- Category: Nonfiction, Ancient Rome
- Published in: 121 AD
- Pages: 464
- Available in: Ebook, Audiobook, Hardcover, Paperback
- Synopsis: As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, the scholar Suetonius had access to the imperial archives and used them (along with eyewitness accounts) to produce one of the most colourful biographical works in history. The Twelve Caesars chronicles the public careers and private lives of the men who wielded absolute power over Rome, from the foundation of the empire under Julius Caesar and Augustus, to the decline into depravity and civil war under Nero and the recovery that came with his successors. A masterpiece of observation, anecdote and detailed physical description, The Twelve Caesars presents us with a gallery of vividly drawn—and all too human—individuals.
- Link to buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Twelve-Caesars-Suetonius/dp/0140455167/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=9IOKKH12YKV0&keywords=The+Twelve+Caesars&qid=1670017332&sprefix=the+twelve+caesars%2Caps%2C215&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Twelve-Caesars-Suetonius/dp/0140455167/ref=sr_1_1?crid=9IOKKH12YKV0&keywords=The+Twelve+Caesars&qid=1670017332&sprefix=the+twelve+caesars%2Caps%2C215&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read?: false
- Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
- Notes: -

### 4. [Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/77954/books-about-rome-ancient-rome-fiction-etc/7/rubicon-the-last-years-of-the-roman-republic)

Item ID: `7`

- Author: Tom Holland
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/xap6nne1xx0tcmotumad.jpg)
- Category: Nonfiction, Ancient Rome
- Published in: 2003
- Pages: 464
- Available in: Ebook, Audiobook, Hardcover, Paperback, CD
- Synopsis: A vivid historical account of the social world of Rome as it moved from republic to empire. In 49 B.C., the seven hundred fifth year since the founding of Rome, Julius Caesar crossed a small border river called the Rubicon and plunged Rome into cataclysmic civil war. Tom Holland’s enthralling account tells the story of Caesar’s generation, witness to the twilight of the Republic and its bloody transformation into an empire. From Cicero, Spartacus, and Brutus, to Cleopatra, Virgil, and Augustus, here are some of the most legendary figures in history brought thrillingly to life. Combining verve and freshness with scrupulous scholarship, Rubicon is not only an engrossing history of this pivotal era but a uniquely resonant portrait of a great civilization in all its extremes of self-sacrifice and rivalry, decadence and catastrophe, intrigue, war, and world-shaking ambition.
- Link to buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Rubicon-Tom-Holland/dp/1400078970/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1670017654&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Rubicon-Tom-Holland/dp/1400078970/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1670017654&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read?: false
- Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
- Notes: -

### 5. [Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/77954/books-about-rome-ancient-rome-fiction-etc/49/dynasty-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-house-of-caesar)

Item ID: `49`

- Author: Tom Holland
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/y8nxtjtq7mocndu0ogjj.jpg)
- Category: Nonfiction, Ancient Rome
- Published in: 2015
- Pages: 512
- Available in: Ebook, Audiobook, Hardcover, Paperback, CD
- Synopsis: Dynasty continues Rubicon's story, opening where that book ended: with the murder of Julius Caesar. This is the period of the first and perhaps greatest Roman Emperors and it's a colorful story of rule and ruination, running from the rise of Augustus through to the death of Nero. Holland's expansive history also has distinct shades of I Claudius, with five wonderfully vivid (and in three cases, thoroughly depraved) Emperors—Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero—featured, along with numerous fascinating secondary characters. Intrigue, murder, naked ambition and treachery, greed, gluttony, lust, incest, pageantry, decadence—the tale of these five Caesars continues to cast a mesmerizing spell across the millennia.
- Link to buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Dynasty-Rise-Fall-House-Caesar/dp/0385537840/ref=tmm\_hrd\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1670420802&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Dynasty-Rise-Fall-House-Caesar/dp/0385537840/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1670420802&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read?: false
- Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
- Notes: -

### 6. [Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/77954/books-about-rome-ancient-rome-fiction-etc/8/imperium-a-novel-of-ancient-rome)

Item ID: `8`

- Author: Robert Harris
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/aaggob8ybboiun7nfzqc.jpg)
- Category: Fiction, Ancient Rome
- Published in: 2006
- Pages: 305
- Available in: Ebook, Audiobook, Hardcover, Paperback
- Synopsis: On a cold November morning, Tiro opens the door to find a terrified, bedraggled stranger begging for help. Once a Sicilian aristocrat, the man was robbed by the corrupt Roman governor, Verres, who is now trying to convict him under false pretenses and sentence him to a violent death. The man claims that only the great senator Marcus Cicero, one of Rome’s most ambitious lawyers and spellbinding orators, can bring him justice in a crooked society manipulated by the villainous governor. But for Cicero, it is a chance to prove himself worthy of absolute power. What follows is one of the most gripping courtroom dramas in history, and the beginning of a quest for political glory by a man who fought his way to the top using only his voice—defeating the most daunting figures in Roman history.
- Link to buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Imperium-Novel-Ancient-Robert-Harris/dp/0743498666/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1670017917&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Imperium-Novel-Ancient-Robert-Harris/dp/0743498666/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1670017917&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read?: false
- Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
- Notes: -

### 7. [The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/77954/books-about-rome-ancient-rome-fiction-etc/9/the-storm-before-the-storm-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-roman-republic)

Item ID: `9`

- Author: Mike Duncan
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/ifheqhjititlf6hc6izc.jpg)
- Category: Nonfiction, Ancient Rome
- Published in: 2017
- Pages: 352
- Available in: Ebook, Audiobook, Hardcover, Paperback, CD
- Synopsis: The Roman Republic was one of the most remarkable achievements in the history of civilization. Beginning as a small city-state in central Italy, Rome gradually expanded into a wider world filled with petty tyrants, barbarian chieftains, and despotic kings. Through the centuries, Rome's model of cooperative and participatory government remained remarkably durable and unmatched in the history of the ancient world.In 146 BC, Rome finally emerged as the strongest power in the Mediterranean. But the very success of the Republic proved to be its undoing. The republican system was unable to cope with the vast empire Rome now ruled: rising economic inequality disrupted traditional ways of life, endemic social and ethnic prejudice led to clashes over citizenship and voting rights, and rampant corruption and ruthless ambition sparked violent political clashes that cracked the once indestructible foundations of the Republic.Chronicling the years 146-78 BC, The Storm Before the Storm dives headlong into the first generation to face this treacherous new political environment. Abandoning the ancient principles of their forbearers, men like Marius, Sulla, and the Gracchi brothers set dangerous new precedents that would start the Republic on the road to destruction and provide a stark warning about what can happen to a civilization that has lost its way.
- Link to buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Storm-Before-Beginning-Roman-Republic/dp/1541724038/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=DJDYG1L909UG&keywords=the+storm+before+the+storm+by+mike+duncan&qid=1670018220&sprefix=The+Storm+Before+the+Storm%2Caps%2C216&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Storm-Before-Beginning-Roman-Republic/dp/1541724038/ref=sr_1_1?crid=DJDYG1L909UG&keywords=the+storm+before+the+storm+by+mike+duncan&qid=1670018220&sprefix=The+Storm+Before+the+Storm%2Caps%2C216&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read?: false
- Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
- Notes: -

### 8. [The Roman Revolution](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/77954/books-about-rome-ancient-rome-fiction-etc/10/the-roman-revolution)

Item ID: `10`

- Author: Ronald Syme
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/ubcap8vwchzuuzggaghq.jpg)
- Category: Nonfiction, Ancient Rome
- Published in: 1939
- Pages: 592
- Available in: Ebook, Hardcover, Paperback
- Synopsis: The Roman Revolution is a profound and unconventional treatment of a great theme - the fall of the Republic and the decline of freedom in Rome between 60 BC and AD 14, and the rise to power of the greatest of the Roman Emperors, Augustus. The transformation of state and society, the violent transference of power and property, and the establishment of Augustus' rule are presented in an unconventional narrative, which quotes from ancient evidence, refers seldomly to modern authorities, and states controversial opinions quite openly. The result is a book which is both fresh and compelling.
- Link to buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Roman-Revolution-Ronald-Syme/dp/0192803204/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=1001HDFZHCWA4&keywords=the+roman+revolution+by+ronald+syme&qid=1670018467&sprefix=The+Roman+Revolution%2Caps%2C215&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Roman-Revolution-Ronald-Syme/dp/0192803204/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1001HDFZHCWA4&keywords=the+roman+revolution+by+ronald+syme&qid=1670018467&sprefix=The+Roman+Revolution%2Caps%2C215&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read?: false
- Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
- Notes: -

### 9. [Roman Diary: The Journal of Iliona, A Young Slave](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/77954/books-about-rome-ancient-rome-fiction-etc/11/roman-diary-the-journal-of-iliona-a-young-slave)

Item ID: `11`

- Author: Richard Platt
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/lpr2ctowjfw5xse95f1j.jpg)
- Category: Nonfiction, Ancient Rome, Children
- Published in: 2009
- Pages: 128
- Available in: Ebook, Paperback
- Synopsis: Iliona never imagined that her sea voyage from Greece to Egypt would lead to Rome, but when she is captured by pirates and auctioned off as a slave, that’s where she lands. Readers are invited to view the wonders of Rome through Iliona’s eyes—the luxury, the excess, and the politics.Back matter includes notes for the reader, a glossary, an index, and sources.
- Link to buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Roman-Diary-Journal-Historical-Diaries/dp/0763670537/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=3Q126A0ZIA6D2&keywords=roman+diary+richard+platt&qid=1670018594&sprefix=Roman+Diary%2Caps%2C209&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Roman-Diary-Journal-Historical-Diaries/dp/0763670537/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3Q126A0ZIA6D2&keywords=roman+diary+richard+platt&qid=1670018594&sprefix=Roman+Diary%2Caps%2C209&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read?: false
- Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
- Notes: -

### 10. [Pagans and Christians](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/77954/books-about-rome-ancient-rome-fiction-etc/12/pagans-and-christians)

Item ID: `12`

- Author: Robin Lane Fox
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/rj95xsen90e3svcyn2it.jpg)
- Category: Nonfiction, Ancient Rome
- Published in: 1986
- Pages: 800
- Available in: Hardcover, Paperback
- Synopsis: From the second century AD to the conversion of the first Christian emperor, Constantine, Robin Lane Fox's Pagans and Christians in the Mediterranean World gives a fascinating new perspective on an extraordinary era.The transition from pagan to Christian in the ancient Mediterranean world was a process whose effects we still live with today. How did this monumental conversion come about? How did Christianity compare and compete with the pagan gods in the Roman Empire? This scholarly work, from award-winning historian Robin Lane Fox, places Christians and pagans side by side in the context of civic life and contrasts their religious experiences, visions, cults and oracles.Leading up to the time of the first Christian emperor, Constantine, the book aims to enlarge and confirm the value of contemporary evidence, some of which has only recently been discovered.
- Link to buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Pagans-Christians-Robin-Lane-Fox/dp/0141022957/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=1DOXY2ANTTWOF&keywords=pagans+and+christians+robin+lane+fox&qid=1670018911&sprefix=Pagans+and+Christians%2Caps%2C221&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Pagans-Christians-Robin-Lane-Fox/dp/0141022957/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1DOXY2ANTTWOF&keywords=pagans+and+christians+robin+lane+fox&qid=1670018911&sprefix=Pagans+and+Christians%2Caps%2C221&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read?: false
- Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
- Notes: -

### 11. [The First Man in Rome](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/77954/books-about-rome-ancient-rome-fiction-etc/13/the-first-man-in-rome)

Item ID: `13`

- Author: Colleen McCullough
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/unjjlngdwm9lyvwpzxiy.jpg)
- Category: Fiction, Ancient Rome
- Published in: 1990
- Pages: 1123
- Available in: Ebook, Audiobook, Hardcover, Paperback
- Synopsis: When the world cowered before the legions of Rome, two extraordinary men dreamed of personal glory: the military genius and wealthy rural "upstart" Marius, and Sulla, penniless and debauched but of aristocratic birth. Men of exceptional vision, courage, cunning, and ruthless ambition, separately they faced the insurmountable opposition of powerful, vindictive foes. Yet allied they could answer the treachery of rivals, lovers, enemy generals, and senatorial vipers with intricate and merciless machinations of their own—to achieve in the end a bloody and splendid foretold destiny . . . and win the most coveted honor the Republic could bestow.
- Link to buy: [https://www.amazon.com/First-Man-Rome-Masters/dp/0061582417/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1670025010&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/First-Man-Rome-Masters/dp/0061582417/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1670025010&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read?: false
- Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
- Notes: -

### 12. [City: A Story of Roman Planning and Construction](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/77954/books-about-rome-ancient-rome-fiction-etc/14/city-a-story-of-roman-planning-and-construction)

Item ID: `14`

- Author: David Macaulay
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/rswnzwbtdwekcwp0md7a.jpg)
- Category: Nonfiction, Ancient Rome
- Published in: 1974
- Pages: 112
- Available in: Ebook, Hardcover, Paperback
- Synopsis: In City, David Macaulay introduces readers to the fascinating world of Ancient Roman architecture and engineering, combining straightforward text and black and white illustrations to tell the story of a city’s creation. While the Roman city of Verbonia is imaginary, its planning and construction are based on those of the hundreds of Roman cities founded between 300 B.C. and 150 A.D. From the process of selecting the ideal site on which to build, Macaulay moves through each phase of the process. “Engineering, architectural and human details enliven a tour of the completed city—the water supply and drainage system, the forum and central market, the homes of a merchant and a craftsman, the theatre, the public baths” and much more are intricately imagined, illustrated, and explained (Kirkus).
- Link to buy: [https://www.amazon.com/City-Story-Roman-Planning-Construction/dp/0395349222/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1670354187&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/City-Story-Roman-Planning-Construction/dp/0395349222/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1670354187&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read?: false
- Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
- Notes: -

### 13. [Twice Freed](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/77954/books-about-rome-ancient-rome-fiction-etc/15/twice-freed)

Item ID: `15`

- Author: Patricia St John
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/vlhwusoaewdtse8tesro.jpg)
- Category: Fiction, Young Adult
- Published in: 1970
- Pages: 256
- Available in: Hardcover, Paperback
- Synopsis: Onesimus is a slave. Eirene is a rich merchant’s daughter. Onesimus longs to gain his freedom and Eirene’s love. However, he doesn’t realize where true freedom lies. He wants nothing to do with Jesus Christ. His master, Philemon, may follow the teachings of the Christ and his apostle Paul… but Onesimus has other plans.
- Link to buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Twice-Freed-Freestyle-Patricia-John/dp/1857924894/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1670354456&sr=8-2](https://www.amazon.com/Twice-Freed-Freestyle-Patricia-John/dp/1857924894/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1670354456&sr=8-2&tag=listium03-20)
- Read?: false
- Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
- Notes: -

### 14. [The Roman Triumph](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/77954/books-about-rome-ancient-rome-fiction-etc/16/the-roman-triumph)

Item ID: `16`

- Author: Mary Beard
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/o9htldvlxgheq86rrtr5.jpg)
- Category: Nonfiction, Ancient Rome
- Published in: 2007
- Pages: 448
- Available in: Hardcover, Paperback
- Synopsis: It followed every major military victory in ancient Rome: the successful general drove through the streets to the temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline Hill; behind him streamed his raucous soldiers; in front were his most glamorous prisoners, as well as the booty he’d captured, from enemy ships and precious statues to plants and animals from the conquered territory. Occasionally there was so much on display that the show lasted two or three days.A radical reexamination of this most extraordinary of ancient ceremonies, this book explores the magnificence of the Roman triumph, but also its darker side. What did it mean when the axle broke under Julius Caesar’s chariot? Or when Pompey’s elephants got stuck trying to squeeze through an arch? Or when exotic or pathetic prisoners stole the general’s show? And what are the implications of the Roman triumph, as a celebration of imperialism and military might, for questions about military power and “victory” in our own day? The triumph, Mary Beard contends, prompted the Romans to question as well as celebrate military glory.Her richly illustrated work is a testament to the profound importance of the triumph in Roman culture―and for monarchs, dynasts and generals ever since. But how can we re-create the ceremony as it was celebrated in Rome? How can we piece together its elusive traces in art and literature? Beard addresses these questions, opening a window on the intriguing process of sifting through and making sense of what constitutes “history.”
- Link to buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Roman-Triumph-Mary-Beard/dp/0674032187/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=2FPMXF6K1J0OH&keywords=the+roman+triumph&qid=1670354656&sprefix=The+Roman+Triumph%2Caps%2C208&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Roman-Triumph-Mary-Beard/dp/0674032187/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2FPMXF6K1J0OH&keywords=the+roman+triumph&qid=1670354656&sprefix=The+Roman+Triumph%2Caps%2C208&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read?: false
- Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
- Notes: -

### 15. [The Thieves of Ostia](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/77954/books-about-rome-ancient-rome-fiction-etc/17/the-thieves-of-ostia)

Item ID: `17`

- Author: Caroline Lawrence
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/c8gxrasf4n4hkhzdrapx.jpg)
- Category: Fiction, Children
- Published in: 2001
- Pages: 208
- Available in: Audiobook, Hardcover, Paperback
- Synopsis: Flavia Gemina is a natural at solving mysteries. The daughter of a ship's captain living in Ostia, the port of Rome, in AD79, she and her three friends, Jonathan, a Jewish boy (and secretly a Christian); Nubia, an African slave girl; and Lupus, a mute beggar boy, must work together to discover who is beheading the watchdogs that guard people's homes, and why.A talented storyteller, Caroline Lawrence has created a delightfully readable and accessible series that children will want to read time and time again.
- Link to buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Thieves-Ostia-Roman-Mysteries/dp/1842550209/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=UMCFJP1VN0DN&keywords=The+Thieves+of+Ostia&qid=1670354758&sprefix=the+thieves+of+ostia%2Caps%2C200&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Thieves-Ostia-Roman-Mysteries/dp/1842550209/ref=sr_1_1?crid=UMCFJP1VN0DN&keywords=The+Thieves+of+Ostia&qid=1670354758&sprefix=the+thieves+of+ostia%2Caps%2C200&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read?: false
- Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
- Notes: -

### 16. [Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/77954/books-about-rome-ancient-rome-fiction-etc/18/cicero-the-life-and-times-of-romes-greatest-politician)

Item ID: `18`

- Author: Anthony Everitt
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/tea60xdv1nd89j4v8rtx.jpg)
- Category: Nonfiction, Ancient Rome
- Published in: 2001
- Pages: 400
- Available in: Ebook, Audiobook, Hardcover, Paperback, CD
- Synopsis: He squared off against Caesar and was friends with young Brutus. He advised the legendary Pompey on his botched transition from military hero to politician. He lambasted Mark Antony and was master of the smear campaign, as feared for his wit as he was for his ruthless disputations. Brilliant, voluble, cranky, a genius of political manipulation but also a true patriot and idealist, Cicero was Rome’s most feared politician, one of the greatest lawyers and statesmen of all times. In this dynamic and engaging biography, Anthony Everitt plunges us into the fascinating, scandal-ridden world of ancient Rome in its most glorious heyday—when senators were endlessly filibustering legislation and exposing one another’s sexual escapades to discredit the opposition. Accessible to us through his legendary speeches but also through an unrivaled collection of unguarded letters to his close friend Atticus, Cicero comes to life as a witty and cunning political operator, the most eloquent and astute witness to the last days of Republican Rome.
- Link to buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Cicero-Times-Romes-Greatest-Politician/dp/037575895X/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1670355158&sr=8-3](https://www.amazon.com/Cicero-Times-Romes-Greatest-Politician/dp/037575895X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1670355158&sr=8-3&tag=listium03-20)
- Read?: false
- Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
- Notes: -

### 17. [Absolute Monarchs: A History of the Papacy](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/77954/books-about-rome-ancient-rome-fiction-etc/19/absolute-monarchs-a-history-of-the-papacy)

Item ID: `19`

- Author: John Julius Norwich
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/qsufasn34juobbqjymbn.jpg)
- Category: Nonfiction
- Published in: 2011
- Pages: 544
- Available in: Ebook, Audiobook, Hardcover, Paperback, CD
- Synopsis: In a chronicle that captures nearly two thousand years of inspiration and intrigue, John Julius Norwich recounts in riveting detail the histories of the most significant popes and what they meant politically, culturally, and socially to Rome and to the world. Norwich presents such popes as Innocent I, who in the fifth century successfully negotiated with Alaric the Goth, an invader civil authorities could not defeat; Leo I, who two decades later tamed (and perhaps paid off) Attila the Hun; the infamous “pornocracy”—the five libertines who were descendants or lovers of Marozia, debauched daughter of one of Rome’s most powerful families; Pope Paul III, “the greatest pontiff of the sixteenth century,” who reinterpreted the Church’s teaching and discipline; John XXIII, who in five short years starting in 1958 instituted reforms that led to Vatican II; and Benedict XVI, who is coping with today’s global priest sex scandal.
- Link to buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Absolute-Monarchs-John-Julius-Norwich/dp/0812978846/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=3HHKCVYWR7XB8&keywords=absolute+monarchs&qid=1670355325&sprefix=Absolute+Monarchs%2Caps%2C205&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Absolute-Monarchs-John-Julius-Norwich/dp/0812978846/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3HHKCVYWR7XB8&keywords=absolute+monarchs&qid=1670355325&sprefix=Absolute+Monarchs%2Caps%2C205&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read?: false
- Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
- Notes: -

### 18. [The Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/77954/books-about-rome-ancient-rome-fiction-etc/20/the-corrupting-sea-a-study-of-mediterranean-history)

Item ID: `20`

- Author: Peregrine Horden, Nicholas Purcell
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/vzmf6iyh4umspclxeifh.jpg)
- Category: Nonfiction
- Published in: 2000
- Pages: 784
- Available in: Paperback
- Synopsis: The Corrupting Sea is a history of the relationship between people and their environments in the Mediterranean region over some 3,000 years. It offers a novel analysis of this relationship in terms of microecologies and the often extensive networks to which they belong.
- Link to buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Corrupting-Sea-Study-Mediterranean-History/dp/0631218904/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=2DG81QKH138WH&keywords=The+Corrupting+Sea%3A+A+Study+of+Mediterranean+History&qid=1670356026&sprefix=the+corrupting+sea+a+study+of+mediterranean+history%2Caps%2C435&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Corrupting-Sea-Study-Mediterranean-History/dp/0631218904/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2DG81QKH138WH&keywords=The+Corrupting+Sea%3A+A+Study+of+Mediterranean+History&qid=1670356026&sprefix=the+corrupting+sea+a+study+of+mediterranean+history%2Caps%2C435&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read?: false
- Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
- Notes: -

### 19. [Rome: An Archaeological Guide](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/77954/books-about-rome-ancient-rome-fiction-etc/21/rome-an-archaeological-guide)

Item ID: `21`

- Author: Amanda Claridge, Judith Toms, Tony Cubberley
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/bslh44kzibyvppn8feom.jpg)
- Category: Nonfiction
- Published in: 1998
- Pages: 480
- Available in: Ebook, Paperback
- Synopsis: Capital and showcase of the Roman Empire and the center of Christian Europe, the city of Rome is the largest archaeological site in the world. Here, Amanda Claridge presents an indispensable guide to all significant monuments in Rome dating from 800 BC to 600 AD. Included are such breathtaking structures as the Capitoline Hill, the Roman Forum, the Colosseum, the Mausoleums of Augustus and Hadrian, the Circus Maximus, and the Catacombs.Divided into twelve main archaeological areas in central Rome, and four in Greater Rome, this accessible guide provides a detailed overview of the sites, as well as historical reference tables listing archaeological periods, emperors, and principal surviving buildings. The introduction offers an assessment of Roman achievement along with its status as the capital of the Roman Empire, and explains Rome's survival as the world's most complex archaeological site.
- Link to buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Rome-Oxford-Archaeological-Guide-Guides/dp/0192880039/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=31LR7URZD96LG&keywords=rome+an+archaeological+guide&qid=1670356245&sprefix=Rome%3A+An+Archaeological+Guide%2Caps%2C210&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Rome-Oxford-Archaeological-Guide-Guides/dp/0192880039/ref=sr_1_1?crid=31LR7URZD96LG&keywords=rome+an+archaeological+guide&qid=1670356245&sprefix=Rome%3A+An+Archaeological+Guide%2Caps%2C210&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read?: false
- Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
- Notes: -

### 20. [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/77954/books-about-rome-ancient-rome-fiction-etc/22/the-history-of-the-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire)

Item ID: `22`

- Author: Edward Gibbon
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/p5qmuidsq2okjukhxe0d.jpg)
- Category: Nonfiction, Ancient Rome
- Published in: 1776
- Pages: 5069
- Available in: Ebook, Hardcover, CD
- Synopsis: ‘The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire’ is a book of history written by the English historian Edward Gibbon (1737-1794). It traces the trajectory of Western civilization (as well as the Islamic and Mongolian conquests) from the height of the Roman Empire to the fall of Byzantium. The work covers the history of the Roman Empire, Europe, and the Catholic Church from 98 to 1590 and discusses the decline of the Roman Empire in the East and West.Gibbon offers an explanation for the fall of the Roman Empire, a task made difficult by a lack of comprehensive written sources, though he was not the only historian to attempt the task. According to Gibbon, the Roman Empire succumbed to barbarian invasions in large part due to the gradual loss of civic virtue among its citizens. They had become weak, outsourcing their duty to defend their empire to barbarian mercenaries, who then became so numerous and ingrained that they were able to take over the Empire. Romans, he believed, were unwilling to live a tougher, military lifestyle.
- Link to buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Decline-Empire-Volumes-Everymans-Library/dp/0307700763/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=1BSFMX1JQOX2D&keywords=The+History+of+the+Decline+and+Fall+of+the+Roman+Empire&qid=1670356742&sprefix=rome+an+archaeological+guide%2Caps%2C772&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Decline-Empire-Volumes-Everymans-Library/dp/0307700763/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1BSFMX1JQOX2D&keywords=The+History+of+the+Decline+and+Fall+of+the+Roman+Empire&qid=1670356742&sprefix=rome+an+archaeological+guide%2Caps%2C772&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read?: false
- Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
- Notes: -

### 21. [Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/77954/books-about-rome-ancient-rome-fiction-etc/23/pompeii-the-life-of-a-roman-town)

Item ID: `23`

- Author: Mary Beard
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/doed9kxrhbazfcz2cs7q.jpg)
- Category: Nonfiction, Ancient Rome
- Published in: 2008
- Pages: 416
- Available in: Hardcover, Paperback
- Synopsis: The ruins of Pompeii, buried by an explosion of Vesuvius in 79 CE, offer the best evidence we have of everyday life in the Roman empire. This remarkable book rises to the challenge of making sense of those remains, as well as exploding many myths: the very date of the eruption, probably a few months later than usually thought; or the hygiene of the baths which must have been hotbeds of germs; or the legendary number of brothels, most likely only one; or the massive death count, maybe less than ten per cent of the population.
- Link to buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Pompeii-beard-mary/dp/1861975961/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=17T009NCNEU9W&keywords=pompeii+the+life+of+a+roman+town+by+mary+beard&qid=1670356971&sprefix=Pompeii%3A+The+Life+of+a+Roman+Town%2Caps%2C204&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Pompeii-beard-mary/dp/1861975961/ref=sr_1_1?crid=17T009NCNEU9W&keywords=pompeii+the+life+of+a+roman+town+by+mary+beard&qid=1670356971&sprefix=Pompeii%3A+The+Life+of+a+Roman+Town%2Caps%2C204&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read?: false
- Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
- Notes: -

### 22. [The Emperor in the Roman World](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/77954/books-about-rome-ancient-rome-fiction-etc/24/the-emperor-in-the-roman-world)

Item ID: `24`

- Author: Fergus Millar
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/vhmahziljvzmkkekgtdg.jpg)
- Category: Nonfiction, Ancient Rome
- Published in: 1977
- Pages: 656
- Available in: Paperback
- Synopsis: This book offers a large scale reassessment of the function of Roman emperor over three centuries (from Augustus to Constantine) and of the social realities of this exercise of power. Concentrating on the patterns of communication between the emperor and his subjects, the author shows that such communications were normally initiated by the subjects – whether grouped in cities or other associations, or individually and that the emperor fulfilled his role primarily by making responses to them or giving decisions or verdicts between them.
- Link to buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Emperor-Roman-World-Fergus-Millar/dp/0715617222/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=22QWOXHGMQDEM&keywords=the+emperor+in+the+roman+world+by+fergus+millar&qid=1670357251&sprefix=The+Emperor+in+the+Roman+World%2Caps%2C208&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Emperor-Roman-World-Fergus-Millar/dp/0715617222/ref=sr_1_1?crid=22QWOXHGMQDEM&keywords=the+emperor+in+the+roman+world+by+fergus+millar&qid=1670357251&sprefix=The+Emperor+in+the+Roman+World%2Caps%2C208&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read?: false
- Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
- Notes: -

### 23. [Shopping in Ancient Rome: The Retail Trade in the Late Republic and the Principate](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/77954/books-about-rome-ancient-rome-fiction-etc/25/shopping-in-ancient-rome-the-retail-trade-in-the-late-republic-and-the-principate)

Item ID: `25`

- Author: Claire Holleran
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/n4tuyrtjywbdoaff2ocu.jpg)
- Category: Nonfiction
- Published in: 2012
- Pages: 302
- Available in: Hardcover
- Synopsis: Shopping in Ancient Rome provides the first comprehensive account of the retail network of this ancient city, an area of commerce that has been largely neglected in previous studies. Given the remarkable concentration of consumers in ancient Rome, the vast majority of which were entirely reliant on the market for survival, a functioning retail trade was vital to the survival of Rome in the late Republic and the Principate.In this volume Holleran provides the first systematic account of Rome's retail sector through a comprehensive analysis of the literary, legal, epigraphic, and archaeological evidence together with wide-ranging and innovative comparative studies of the distributive trades. Investigating the diverse means by which goods were sold to consumers in the city, and the critical relationship between retail and broader environmental factors, Holleran places Roman retail trade firmly within the wider context of its urban economy. In considering the roles played by shops, workshops, markets, fairs, auctions, street sellers, and ambulant vendors in the distribution of goods to the inhabitants of the city, the volume sheds new light on the experience of living in the ancient city and explores the retail trade of Rome in its totality.
- Link to buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Shopping-Ancient-Rome-Republic-Principate/dp/019969821X/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=1ATOCF8RG8JQL&keywords=Shopping+in+Ancient+Rome%3A+The+Retail+Trade+in+the+Late+Republic+and+the+Principate&qid=1670357377&sprefix=shopping+in+ancient+rome+the+retail+trade+in+the+late+republic+and+the+principate%2Caps%2C194&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Shopping-Ancient-Rome-Republic-Principate/dp/019969821X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1ATOCF8RG8JQL&keywords=Shopping+in+Ancient+Rome%3A+The+Retail+Trade+in+the+Late+Republic+and+the+Principate&qid=1670357377&sprefix=shopping+in+ancient+rome+the+retail+trade+in+the+late+republic+and+the+principate%2Caps%2C194&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read?: false
- Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
- Notes: -

### 24. [The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/77954/books-about-rome-ancient-rome-fiction-etc/26/the-darkening-age-the-christian-destruction-of-the-classical-world)

Item ID: `26`

- Author: Catherine Nixey
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/tpyl4rrk89t1bmj3rs4i.jpg)
- Category: Nonfiction, Ancient Rome
- Published in: 2017
- Pages: 368
- Available in: Ebook, Hardcover, Paperback
- Synopsis: The Darkening Age is the largely unknown story of how a militant religion deliberately attacked and suppressed the teachings of the Classical world, ushering in centuries of unquestioning adherence to "one true faith."Despite the long-held notion that the early Christians were meek and mild, going to their martyrs' deaths singing hymns of love and praise, the truth, as Catherine Nixey reveals, is very different. Far from being meek and mild, they were violent, ruthless, and fundamentally intolerant. Unlike the polytheistic world, in which the addition of one new religion made no fundamental difference to the old ones, this new ideology stated not only that it was the way, the truth, and the light but that, by extension, every single other way was wrong and had to be destroyed. From the first century to the sixth, those who didn't fall into step with its beliefs were pursued in every possible way: social, legal, financial, and physical. Their altars were upturned and their temples demolished, their statues hacked to pieces, and their priests killed. It was an annihilation.
- Link to buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Darkening-Age-Christian-Destruction-Classical/dp/1328589285/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=1ZHZLD3GX5NZ0&keywords=The+Darkening+Age%3A+The+Christian+Destruction+of+the+Classical+World&qid=1670357506&sprefix=the+darkening+age+the+christian+destruction+of+the+classical+world%2Caps%2C197&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Darkening-Age-Christian-Destruction-Classical/dp/1328589285/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1ZHZLD3GX5NZ0&keywords=The+Darkening+Age%3A+The+Christian+Destruction+of+the+Classical+World&qid=1670357506&sprefix=the+darkening+age+the+christian+destruction+of+the+classical+world%2Caps%2C197&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read?: false
- Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
- Notes: -

### 25. [Perpetua's Journey: Faith, Gender and Power in the Roman Empire](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/77954/books-about-rome-ancient-rome-fiction-etc/27/perpetuas-journey-faith-gender-and-power-in-the-roman-empire)

Item ID: `27`

- Author: Jennifer A. Rea, Liz Clarke
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/buglhmh87zkhktl8xooe.jpg)
- Category: Graphic Novel, Nonfiction
- Published in: 2018
- Pages: 232
- Available in: Paperback
- Synopsis: The Passio Sanctarum Perpetuae et Felicitatis, also known as The Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity, is the first extant diary authored by a Christian woman. Vibia Perpetua was a young mother who lived in Roman Africa and, at the age of twenty-two, chose to publicly proclaim her Christian faith. She died as a result of her actions, though she did not die alone; she was part of a group of Christian martyrs, including several slaves, who were placed in prison and then executed in Carthage during the birthday celebrations of Emperor Septimius Severus's son in 203 CE. Perpetua's diary contains her account of the days leading up to her martyrdom.Perpetua's Journey occupies a space between the many works designed primarily for specialists and advanced scholars, who already know a great deal about Perpetua and the history of the Roman Empire, and lives of saints that are intended for general readers. Perpetua's Journey is unique because it combines both sequential art and historical and social commentary, and it places Perpetua's diary in the context of life in Roman North Africa in 203 CE.
- Link to buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Perpetuas-Journey-Gender-Graphic-History/dp/0190238712/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=3PCZHOKPD0KBO&keywords=Perpetua%27s+Journey%3A+Faith%2C+Gender+and+Power+in+the+Roman+Empire&qid=1670357645&sprefix=perpetua%27s+journey+faith%2C+gender+and+power+in+the+roman+empire%2Caps%2C202&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Perpetuas-Journey-Gender-Graphic-History/dp/0190238712/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3PCZHOKPD0KBO&keywords=Perpetua%27s+Journey%3A+Faith%2C+Gender+and+Power+in+the+Roman+Empire&qid=1670357645&sprefix=perpetua%27s+journey+faith%2C+gender+and+power+in+the+roman+empire%2Caps%2C202&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read?: false
- Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
- Notes: -

### 26. [Agrippina: The Most Extraordinary Woman of the Roman World](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/77954/books-about-rome-ancient-rome-fiction-etc/28/agrippina-the-most-extraordinary-woman-of-the-roman-world)

Item ID: `28`

- Author: Emma Southon
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/e55shmw5ipsofolcww0s.jpg)
- Category: Nonfiction, Ancient Rome
- Published in: 2018
- Pages: 352
- Available in: Ebook, Audiobook, Hardcover, Paperback, CD
- Synopsis: Sister of Caligula. Wife of Claudius. Mother of Nero. The story of Agrippina, at the center of imperial power for three generations, is the story of the Julio-Claudia dynasty—and of Rome itself, at its bloody, extravagant, chaotic, ruthless, and political zenith.In her own time, she was recognized as a woman of unparalleled power. Beautiful and intelligent, she was portrayed as alternately a ruthless murderer and helpless victim, the most loving mother and the most powerful woman of the Roman empire, using sex, motherhood, manipulation, and violence to get her way, and single-minded in her pursuit of power for herself and her son, Nero.This book follows Agrippina as a daughter, born in Cologne, to the expected heir to Augustus’s throne; as a sister to Caligula who raped his sisters and showered them with honors until they attempted rebellion against him and were exiled; as a seductive niece and then wife to Claudius who gave her access to near unlimited power; and then as a mother to Nero—who adored her until he had  her assassinated.Through senatorial political intrigue, assassination attempts, and exile to a small island, to the heights of imperial power, thrones, and golden cloaks and games and adoration, Agrippina scaled the absolute limits of female power in Rome. Her biography is also the story of the first Roman imperial family—the Julio-Claudians—and of the glory and corruption of the empire itself.
- Link to buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Agrippina-Extraordinary-Woman-Roman-World/dp/1643136100/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=2ETMBFYT8BFZ9&keywords=Agrippina%3A+The+Most+Extraordinary+Woman+of+the+Roman+World&qid=1670357776&sprefix=agrippina+the+most+extraordinary+woman+of+the+roman+world%2Caps%2C217&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Agrippina-Extraordinary-Woman-Roman-World/dp/1643136100/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2ETMBFYT8BFZ9&keywords=Agrippina%3A+The+Most+Extraordinary+Woman+of+the+Roman+World&qid=1670357776&sprefix=agrippina+the+most+extraordinary+woman+of+the+roman+world%2Caps%2C217&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read?: false
- Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
- Notes: -

### 27. [Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/77954/books-about-rome-ancient-rome-fiction-etc/29/ancient-rome-the-rise-and-fall-of-an-empire)

Item ID: `29`

- Author: Simon Baker
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/dl0ec0fxu6svzgjxutyk.jpg)
- Category: Nonfiction, Ancient Rome
- Published in: 2006
- Pages: 448
- Available in: Ebook, Audiobook, Hardcover, Paperback, CD
- Synopsis: Ancient Rome is the story of the greatest empire the world has ever known. Focusing on six turning points in Roman history, Simon Baker's absorbing narrative charts the rise and fall of a political machine unmatched in its brutality, genius, and lust for power. From the conquest of the Mediterranean in the 3rd century BC to the destruction of the empire at the hands of barbarian invaders 700 years later, we discover the pivotal episodes in Roman history. At the heart of this account are some of the most powerful rulers in history—men like Julius Caesar, Augustus, Nero, and Constantine. Putting flesh on the bones of these legendary figures, Baker looks beyond the dusty caricatures to explore their real motivations, ambitions, intrigues, and rivalries. The superb narrative, full of energy and imagination, is a brilliant distillation of the latest scholarship and a wonderfully evocative account of ancient Rome.
- Link to buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Ancient-Rome-Rise-Fall-Empire/dp/1846072840/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=2LQCQ6EOZ0ONT&keywords=Ancient+Rome%3A+The+Rise+and+Fall+of+an+Empire&qid=1670414329&sprefix=ancient+rome+the+rise+and+fall+of+an+empire%2Caps%2C456&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Ancient-Rome-Rise-Fall-Empire/dp/1846072840/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2LQCQ6EOZ0ONT&keywords=Ancient+Rome%3A+The+Rise+and+Fall+of+an+Empire&qid=1670414329&sprefix=ancient+rome+the+rise+and+fall+of+an+empire%2Caps%2C456&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read?: false
- Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
- Notes: -

### 28. [The Eternal City: Rome & the Origins of Catholic Christianity](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/77954/books-about-rome-ancient-rome-fiction-etc/30/the-eternal-city-rome--the-origins-of-catholic-christianity)

Item ID: `30`

- Author: Taylor R. Marshall
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/ayyux7pzybxxoyb3iwww.jpg)
- Category: Nonfiction
- Published in: 2012
- Pages: 234
- Available in: Ebook, Paperback
- Synopsis: Read this book if you have ever wondered why the Catholic Church specifically claims to be Roman? It would seem that the Church of Jesus Christ would be centered in Jerusalem, the capital of the Jews, since Christ died and rose again in Jerusalem. Catholic theologian Taylor Marshall, Ph.D. provides a layman's account of how Christ chose the Rome as an instrument of redemption for the nations. Beginning with the Old Testament prophets, Dr. Marshall explains how the Messiah would come and assume reign over the nations through the Roman Empire. This book provides an exciting and popular account establishing Rome as 'the Eternal City' of Christ the King.
- Link to buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Eternal-City-Origins-Catholic-Christianity/dp/0988442507/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=12OS3URD3PZPR&keywords=The+Eternal+City&qid=1670414748&sprefix=the+eternal+city%2Caps%2C237&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Eternal-City-Origins-Catholic-Christianity/dp/0988442507/ref=sr_1_1?crid=12OS3URD3PZPR&keywords=The+Eternal+City&qid=1670414748&sprefix=the+eternal+city%2Caps%2C237&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read?: false
- Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
- Notes: -

### 29. [Eating Rome: Living the Good Life in the Eternal City](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/77954/books-about-rome-ancient-rome-fiction-etc/31/eating-rome-living-the-good-life-in-the-eternal-city)

Item ID: `31`

- Author: Elizabeth Minchilli
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/peb4kozvcmqjwlwsxcxr.jpg)
- Category: Nonfiction
- Published in: 2015
- Pages: 256
- Available in: Ebook, Paperback
- Synopsis: Elizabeth Minchilli has been eating her way through Rome since she was 12 years old. Eating Rome, based on her popular blog Elizabeth Minchilli in Rome, is her homage to the city that feeds her, literally and figuratively. Her story is a personal, quirky and deliciously entertaining look at some of the city's monuments to food culture. Join her as she takes you on a stroll through her favorite open air markets; stop by the best gelato shops; order plates full of carbonara and finish the day with a brilliant red Negroni. Coffee, pizza, artichokes and grappa are starting points for mouth-watering stories about this ancient city. Illustrated with Minchilli's beautiful full-color photos and enriched with her favorite recipes for Roman classics like vignarola, carciofi alla romana and carbonara, Eating Rome is the book that you want if you are planning your first trip to Rome or if you have been to Rome a dozen times. And even if you just want to spend a few hours armchair traveling, Elizabeth Minchilli is the person you want by your side.
- Link to buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Eating-Rome-Living-Good-Eternal/dp/1250047684/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=UAT2IF4DL01W&keywords=Eating+Rome&qid=1670414879&sprefix=eating+rome%2Caps%2C205&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Eating-Rome-Living-Good-Eternal/dp/1250047684/ref=sr_1_1?crid=UAT2IF4DL01W&keywords=Eating+Rome&qid=1670414879&sprefix=eating+rome%2Caps%2C205&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read?: false
- Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
- Notes: -

### 30. [Rome Tales (City Tales)](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/77954/books-about-rome-ancient-rome-fiction-etc/32/rome-tales-city-tales)

Item ID: `32`

- Author: Helen Constantine
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/kzflzxwtpynnglibg09p.jpg)
- Category: Fiction, Short Stories
- Published in: 2011
- Pages: 284
- Available in: Ebook, Paperback
- Synopsis: In ways no guide book can achieve, these twenty absorbing tales by Italian authors ranging from Boccaccio in the Middle Ages to Giacomo Casanova in the eighteenth century, to Pier-Paolo Pasolini in the twentieth and contemporary new writers such as Melania Mazzucco and Igiaba Scego, offer the delight of discovering and exploring one of the world's most unique cities thorough a wide variety of individual lives and epochs. The tales span seven hundred years but ratherthan being ordered chronologically, old and new appear alongside one another, reflecting the dual identity of Rome - thriving, modern metropolis and ancient city centre that is one of the wonders of the world. The tales are wonderfully varied in style, tone, and subject matter. Casanova sets aboutseducing the hotelier's daughter only minutes after his arrival, a notorious Spanish prostitute in Renaissance Rome endures a public hiding without flinching, a Danish tourist in her sixties finds an unusual lover, Pope John Paul II uncovers a vast conspiracy against him, a medieval revolutionary demagogue suffers almost the same fate as Mussolini.Each story is illustrated with a black-and-white photograph and there is a map of Rome to help readers locate the important sites which feature in the text. A deep sense of timelessness, of separate destinies entwined across a gulf of centuries, is the cumulative effect of this vivid mosaic of dramatic, comic, and tragic stories set in the Eternal City.
- Link to buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Rome-Tales-City-Helen-Constantine-ebook/dp/B00A7LNMVG/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=YXJIEYWM4TAI&keywords=Rome+Tales&qid=1670414996&sprefix=rome+tales%2Caps%2C201&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Rome-Tales-City-Helen-Constantine-ebook/dp/B00A7LNMVG/ref=sr_1_1?crid=YXJIEYWM4TAI&keywords=Rome+Tales&qid=1670414996&sprefix=rome+tales%2Caps%2C201&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read?: false
- Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
- Notes: -

### 31. [A Day in the Life of Ancient Rome: Daily Life, Mysteries, and Curiosities](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/77954/books-about-rome-ancient-rome-fiction-etc/34/a-day-in-the-life-of-ancient-rome-daily-life-mysteries-and-curiosities)

Item ID: `34`

- Author: Alberto Angela
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/aqlhjs5dlgja5qunjuk3.jpg)
- Category: Nonfiction, Ancient Rome
- Published in: 2007
- Pages: 352
- Available in: Paperback
- Synopsis: The wondrous extravagance of banquets where flamingos are roasted whole and wine flows like rivers. The roar of frenzied spectators inside the Colosseum during a battle between gladiators. A crowd of onlookers gathered at a slave auction. The silent baths and the boisterous taverns...Many books have dealt with the history of ancient Rome, but none has been able to so engage its readers in the daily life of the Imperial capital.This extraordinary armchair tour, guided by Alberto Angela with the charm of a born storyteller, lasts twenty-four hours, beginning at dawn on an ordinary day in the year 115 CE, with Imperial Rome at the height of its power. The reader wakes in a rich patrician home and discovers frescoes, opulent furnishings and richly appointed boudoirs. Strolling though the splendors of the Roman Forum, one overhears both erudite opinions from learned orators and local ribaldry floating out from the public latrines. One meets the intense gazes of Roman matriarchs strolling the streets, looks on as a banquet is prepared, and is afforded a peek into the sexual habits and fetishes of Roman patricians and plebs. For all those who have ever dreamed of traveling back in time, Alberto Angela's narrative style will prove thoroughly satisfying. Rich in atmosphere and historical information, A Day in the Life of Ancient Rome is a voyage into a world both distant to us in time and surprisingly near in its habits, mores, and passions.
- Link to buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Day-Life-Ancient-Rome-Curiosities/dp/1933372710/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=2HV8CDZN0KPJL&keywords=A+Day+in+the+Life+of+Ancient+Rome&qid=1670415227&sprefix=a+day+in+the+life+of+ancient+rome%2Caps%2C205&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Day-Life-Ancient-Rome-Curiosities/dp/1933372710/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2HV8CDZN0KPJL&keywords=A+Day+in+the+Life+of+Ancient+Rome&qid=1670415227&sprefix=a+day+in+the+life+of+ancient+rome%2Caps%2C205&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read?: false
- Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
- Notes: -

### 32. [Roman Presences: Receptions of Rome in European Culture, 1789–1945](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/77954/books-about-rome-ancient-rome-fiction-etc/37/roman-presences-receptions-of-rome-in-european-culture-17891945)

Item ID: `37`

- Author: Catharine Edwards
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/lzy306wdgtmchhrayqvr.jpg)
- Category: Nonfiction, Ancient Rome
- Published in: 1999
- Pages: 308
- Available in: Hardcover, Paperback
- Synopsis: Exploring the significance of Rome from the late eighteenth century to 1945, scholars from several disciplines, including English literature and history of art as well as classics, discuss a wide range of images and texts, from statues of Napoleon to Freud's dream analysis. Rome's astonishing range of meanings has made it a fertile paradigm for making sense of--and also for problematizing--history, politics, identity, memory and desire.
- Link to buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Roman-Presences-Receptions-European-1789-1945/dp/052159197X/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=3BNAOI61K1PTQ&keywords=Roman+Presences&qid=1670416716&sprefix=roman+presences%2Caps%2C193&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Roman-Presences-Receptions-European-1789-1945/dp/052159197X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3BNAOI61K1PTQ&keywords=Roman+Presences&qid=1670416716&sprefix=roman+presences%2Caps%2C193&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read?: false
- Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
- Notes: -

### 33. [Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/77954/books-about-rome-ancient-rome-fiction-etc/38/byzantium-the-surprising-life-of-a-medieval-empire)

Item ID: `38`

- Author: Judith Herrin
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/uwebty5qpmivparjrs9r.jpg)
- Category: Nonfiction, Ancient Rome
- Published in: 2007
- Pages: 416
- Available in: Ebook, Hardcover, Paperback
- Synopsis: A captivating account of the legendary empire that made Western civilization possibleByzantium. The name evokes grandeur and exoticism―gold, cunning, and complexity. In this unique book, Judith Herrin unveils the riches of a quite different civilization. Avoiding a standard chronological account of the Byzantine Empire's millennium―long history, she identifies the fundamental questions about Byzantium―what it was, and what special significance it holds for us today.Bringing the latest scholarship to a general audience in accessible prose, Herrin focuses each short chapter around a representative theme, event, monument, or historical figure, and examines it within the full sweep of Byzantine history―from the foundation of Constantinople, the magnificent capital city built by Constantine the Great, to its capture by the Ottoman Turks.She argues that Byzantium's crucial role as the eastern defender of Christendom against Muslim expansion during the early Middle Ages made Europe―and the modern Western world―possible. Herrin captivates us with her discussions of all facets of Byzantine culture and society. She walks us through the complex ceremonies of the imperial court. She describes the transcendent beauty and power of the church of Hagia Sophia, as well as chariot races, monastic spirituality, diplomacy, and literature. She reveals the fascinating worlds of military usurpers and ascetics, eunuchs and courtesans, and artisans who fashioned the silks, icons, ivories, and mosaics so readily associated with Byzantine art.An innovative history written by one of our foremost scholars, Byzantium reveals this great civilization's rise to military and cultural supremacy, its spectacular destruction by the Fourth Crusade, and its revival and final conquest in 1453.
- Link to buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Byzantium-Surprising-Life-Medieval-Empire/dp/0691143692/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=M9TL434ZI7RM&keywords=Byzantium%3A+The+Surprising+Life+of+a+Mediaeval+Empire&qid=1670417082&sprefix=byzantium+the+surprising+life+of+a+mediaeval+empire%2Caps%2C653&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Byzantium-Surprising-Life-Medieval-Empire/dp/0691143692/ref=sr_1_1?crid=M9TL434ZI7RM&keywords=Byzantium%3A+The+Surprising+Life+of+a+Mediaeval+Empire&qid=1670417082&sprefix=byzantium+the+surprising+life+of+a+mediaeval+empire%2Caps%2C653&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read?: false
- Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
- Notes: -

### 34. [Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/77954/books-about-rome-ancient-rome-fiction-etc/40/michelangelo-and-the-popes-ceiling)

Item ID: `40`

- Author: Ross King
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/ufdqabkhwmmd8isyclzw.jpg)
- Category: Nonfiction
- Published in: 2002
- Pages: 385
- Available in: Ebook, Audiobook, Hardcover, Paperback, CD
- Synopsis: In 1508, despite strong advice to the contrary, the powerful Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo Buonarroti to paint the ceiling of the newly restored Sistine Chapel in Rome. Despite having completed his masterful statue David four years earlier, he had little experience as a painter, even less working in the delicate medium of fresco, and none with challenging curved surfaces such as the Sistine ceiling's vaults. The temperamental Michelangelo was himself reluctant: He stormed away from Rome, incurring Julius's wrath, before he was eventually persuaded to begin.Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling recounts the fascinating story of the four extraordinary years he spent laboring over the twelve thousand square feet of the vast ceiling, while war and the power politics and personal rivalries that abounded in Rome swirled around him. A panorama of illustrious figures intersected during this time-the brilliant young painter Raphael, with whom Michelangelo formed a rivalry; the fiery preacher Girolamo Savonarola and the great Dutch scholar Desiderius Erasmus; a youthful Martin Luther, who made his only trip to Rome at this time and was disgusted by the corruption all around him.Ross King blends these figures into a magnificent tapestry of day-to-day life on the ingenious Sistine scaffolding and outside in the upheaval of early-sixteenth-century Italy, while also offering uncommon insight into the connection between art and history.
- Link to buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Michelangelo-Popes-Ceiling-Ross-King-ebook/dp/B00N8LIIH0/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=38ARZDYJLPKHU&keywords=Michelangelo+and+the+Pope%27s+Ceiling&qid=1670417381&sprefix=michelangelo+and+the+pope%27s+ceiling%2Caps%2C208&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Michelangelo-Popes-Ceiling-Ross-King-ebook/dp/B00N8LIIH0/ref=sr_1_1?crid=38ARZDYJLPKHU&keywords=Michelangelo+and+the+Pope%27s+Ceiling&qid=1670417381&sprefix=michelangelo+and+the+pope%27s+ceiling%2Caps%2C208&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read?: false
- Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
- Notes: -

### 35. [Rome: A History in Seven Sackings](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/77954/books-about-rome-ancient-rome-fiction-etc/41/rome-a-history-in-seven-sackings)

Item ID: `41`

- Author: Matthew Kneale
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/o8ghpjmo9lspjzpcwiar.jpg)
- Category: Nonfiction, Ancient Rome
- Published in: 2017
- Pages: 432
- Available in: Ebook, Audiobook, Hardcover, Paperback, CD
- Synopsis: Rome, the Eternal City. It is a hugely popular tourist destination with a rich history, famed for such sites as the Colosseum, the Forum, the Pantheon, St. Peter’s, and the Vatican. In no other city is history as present as it is in Rome. Today visitors can stand on bridges that Julius Caesar and Cicero crossed; walk around temples in the footsteps of emperors; visit churches from the earliest days of Christianity.This is all the more remarkable considering what the city has endured over the centuries. It has been ravaged by fires, floods, earthquakes, and—most of all—by roving armies. These have invaded repeatedly, from ancient times to as recently as 1943. Many times Romans have shrugged off catastrophe and remade their city anew.
- Link to buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Rome-History-Sackings-Matthew-Kneale-ebook/dp/B078M1TL92/ref=tmm\_kin\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1670418623&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Rome-History-Sackings-Matthew-Kneale-ebook/dp/B078M1TL92/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1670418623&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read?: false
- Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
- Notes: -

### 36. [Rome and a Villa](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/77954/books-about-rome-ancient-rome-fiction-etc/42/rome-and-a-villa)

Item ID: `42`

- Author: Eleanor Clark
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/lco8cmpnzj1shwttibry.jpg)
- Category: Nonfiction
- Published in: 1950
- Pages: 416
- Available in: Ebook, Hardcover, Paperback
- Synopsis: In 1947 a young american woman named Eleanor Clark went to Rome on a Guggenheim fellowship to write a novel. But instead of a novel, Clark created a series of sketches of Roman life written mostly between 1948 and 1951. Wandering the streets of this legendary city, Eleanor fell under Rome's spell—its pace of life, the wry outlook of its men and women, its magnificent history and breathtaking contribution to world culture. Rome is life itself—a sensuous, hectic, chaotic, and utterly fascinating blend of the comic and the tragic. Clark highlights Roman art and architecture, including Hadrian's Villa—an enormous, unfinished palace—as a prism to view the city and its history, and offers a lovely portrait of the Cimitero acattolico—long known as the Protestant cemetery—where Keats, Shelley, and other foreign notables rest.
- Link to buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Rome-Villa-Paperback-Eleanor-Clark/dp/0062363409/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=2HRTEYDFKDYAF&keywords=rome+and+a+villa&qid=1670418753&sprefix=Rome+and+a+Villa%2Caps%2C200&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Rome-Villa-Paperback-Eleanor-Clark/dp/0062363409/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2HRTEYDFKDYAF&keywords=rome+and+a+villa&qid=1670418753&sprefix=Rome+and+a+Villa%2Caps%2C200&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read?: false
- Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
- Notes: -

### 37. [The Seasons of Rome: A Journal](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/77954/books-about-rome-ancient-rome-fiction-etc/43/the-seasons-of-rome-a-journal)

Item ID: `43`

- Author: Paul Hofmann
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/irjew5gpcjxrc5ra3gmf.jpg)
- Category: Nonfiction
- Published in: 1998
- Pages: 272
- Available in: Paperback
- Synopsis: Delving into the daily life of a city that is in so many ways larger than life, Paul Hofmann steers us beyond the tourist board, revealing a fetish for Vatican gossip, the idiosyncrasies of the gattare (cat women who care for the city's stray cats), and the vagaries of the ever-volatile Roman government. As he winds through Rome's ancient streets, we listen with him to the voices of the city, past and present, and we discover with him the intricacies and the beauty of Italy's finest city.
- Link to buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Seasons-Rome-Journal-Paul-Hofmann/dp/0805055975/ref=sr\_1\_2?crid=1BW20Y6S4WMT5&keywords=The+Seasons+of+Rome&qid=1670419295&sprefix=the+seasons+of+rome%2Caps%2C217&sr=8-2](https://www.amazon.com/Seasons-Rome-Journal-Paul-Hofmann/dp/0805055975/ref=sr_1_2?crid=1BW20Y6S4WMT5&keywords=The+Seasons+of+Rome&qid=1670419295&sprefix=the+seasons+of+rome%2Caps%2C217&sr=8-2&tag=listium03-20)
- Read?: false
- Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
- Notes: -

### 38. [Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/77954/books-about-rome-ancient-rome-fiction-etc/72/four-seasons-in-rome-on-twins-insomnia-and-the-biggest-funeral-in-the-history-of-the-world)

Item ID: `72`

- Author: Anthony Doerr
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/ns1hssrovjws1yocopwa.jpg)
- Category: Nonfiction
- Published in: 2007
- Pages: 224
- Available in: Ebook, Audiobook, Hardcover, Paperback, CD
- Synopsis: Exquisitely observed, Four Seasons in Rome describes Doerr's varied adventures in one of the most enchanting cities in the world. He reads Pliny, Dante, and Keats—the chroniclers of Rome who came before him—and visits the piazzas, temples, and ancient cisterns they describe. He attends the vigil of a dying Pope John Paul II and takes his twins to the Pantheon in December to wait for snow to fall through the oculus. He and his family are embraced by the butchers, grocers, and bakers of the neighborhood, whose clamor of stories and idiosyncratic child-rearing advice is as compelling as the city itself.This intimate and revelatory book is a celebration of Rome, a wondrous look at new parenthood, and a fascinating story of a writer's craft—the process by which he transforms what he sees and experiences into sentences.
- Link to buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Four-Seasons-Rome-Insomnia-Biggest/dp/141657316X/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1670419417&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Four-Seasons-Rome-Insomnia-Biggest/dp/141657316X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1670419417&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read?: false
- Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
- Notes: -

### 39. [The Secrets of Rome: Love and Death in the Eternal City](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/77954/books-about-rome-ancient-rome-fiction-etc/44/the-secrets-of-rome-love-and-death-in-the-eternal-city)

Item ID: `44`

- Author: Corrado Augias
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/xzuibmqt0sjjmq1sxgxl.jpg)
- Category: Nonfiction
- Published in: 2007
- Pages: 406
- Available in: Ebook, Hardcover, Paperback
- Synopsis: From Italy's popular author Corrado Augias comes the most intriguing exploration of Rome ever to be published. In the mold of his earlier histories of Paris, New York, and London, Augias moves perceptively through twenty-seven centuries of Roman life, shedding new light on a cast of famous, and infamous, historical figures and uncovering secrets and conspiracies that have shaped the city without our ever knowing it. From Rome's origins as Romulus's stomping ground to the dark atmosphere of the Middle Ages; from Caesar's unscrupulousness to Caravaggio's lurid genius; from the notorious Lucrezia Borgia to the seductive Anna Fallarino, the marchioness at the center of one of Rome's most heinous crimes of the post-war period, Augias creates a sweeping account of the passions that have shaped this complex city: at once both a metropolis and a village, where all human sentiment-bravery and cowardice, industriousness and sloth, enterprise and laxity-find their interpreters and stage. If the history of humankind is all passion and uproar, then, as the author notes, "for centuries Rome has been the mirror of this history, reflecting with excruciating accuracy every detail, even those that might cause you to avert your gaze."
- Link to buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Rome-Love-Death-Eternal/dp/0847842762/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=1M4IJHNN5NSV&keywords=The+Secrets+of+Rome%3A+Love+and+Death+in+the+Eternal+City&qid=1670419783&sprefix=the+secrets+of+rome+love+and+death+in+the+eternal+city%2Caps%2C201&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Rome-Love-Death-Eternal/dp/0847842762/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1M4IJHNN5NSV&keywords=The+Secrets+of+Rome%3A+Love+and+Death+in+the+Eternal+City&qid=1670419783&sprefix=the+secrets+of+rome+love+and+death+in+the+eternal+city%2Caps%2C201&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read?: false
- Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
- Notes: -

### 40. [When in Rome: A Journal of Life in Vatican City](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/77954/books-about-rome-ancient-rome-fiction-etc/45/when-in-rome-a-journal-of-life-in-vatican-city)

Item ID: `45`

- Author: Robert J. J. Hutchinson
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/dnebtnss7zyih6um3zmb.jpg)
- Category: Nonfiction
- Published in: 1998
- Pages: 289
- Available in: Paperback
- Synopsis: Lighthearted and altogether fascinating, When in Rome is a delightful backstairs tour of one of the world's most mysterious and eccentric cities. With his wife and three young sons, Robert Hutchinson moved to Rome shortly before his thirty-ninth birthday, intending to explore the Vatican in depth. He sought to capture "the personality of the place: the smells and the traffic, the rich delicacies of Roman food, the perils of the Italian language, the way Italian monsignori push their way to the front of the line, just like their lay countrymen." When in Rome is the extraordinary journal of his Roman sojourn.With playful good humor, Hutchinson introduces the varied and colorful individuals who live and work in the Vatican. In the process, he explores the mysterious orders of medieval knights, some dating back to the First Crusade, which still play a vital role in the Vatican; explains how bumbling Vatican archaeologists found, and then lost, the bones of St. Peter; probes the sex lives of the popes, from the "pornocracy" of Sergius III to the incestuous orgies of Rodrigo Borgia; experiences high fashion in the Holy See, including a visit to the pope's personal tailor; encounters the weird relics of Catholicism, such as the mummified body of St. Pius X and a museum made entirely out of human bones; recounts the true story behind the True Cross, now kept in a run-down church near the Colosseum; and much, much more.Humorous, irreverent, but ultimately respectful, When in Rome does for the Vatican what A Year in Provence did for the French countryside, in an unforgettable and unprecedented eyewitness account of one of the most fascinating places on Earth.
- Link to buy: [https://www.amazon.com/When-Rome-Journal-Life-Vatican/dp/0385486472/ref=sr\_1\_3?crid=R2F6XU7VNOB6&keywords=When+in+Rome&qid=1670419927&sprefix=when+in+rome%2Caps%2C212&sr=8-3](https://www.amazon.com/When-Rome-Journal-Life-Vatican/dp/0385486472/ref=sr_1_3?crid=R2F6XU7VNOB6&keywords=When+in+Rome&qid=1670419927&sprefix=when+in+rome%2Caps%2C212&sr=8-3&tag=listium03-20)
- Read?: false
- Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
- Notes: -

### 41. [Emperor: The Gates of Rome - A Novel of Julius Caesar](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/77954/books-about-rome-ancient-rome-fiction-etc/46/emperor-the-gates-of-rome-a-novel-of-julius-caesar)

Item ID: `46`

- Author: Conn Iggulden
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/nuzsmsgryqzbw4c2k1eq.jpg)
- Category: Fiction
- Published in: 2002
- Pages: 368
- Available in: Ebook, Audiobook, Hardcover, Paperback
- Synopsis: In a city of grandeur and decadence, beauty and bloodshed, two boys, best friends, dream of glory in service of the mightiest empire the world has ever known. One is the son of a senator. The other is a bastard child. As young Gaius and Marcus grow to manhood, they are trained in the art of combat—under the tutelage of one of Rome’s most fearsome gladiators. For Marcus, a bloody campaign in Greece will become a young soldier’s proving ground. For Gaius, the equally deadly infighting of the Roman Senate will be the battlefield where he hones his courage and skill. And for both, the love of an extraordinary slave girl will be an honor each will covet but only one will win. But as Rome is thrust into the grip of bitter conflict, as every Roman prepares to take sides in the coming battle, Gaius and Marcus’s friendship will be put to the ultimate test.…
- Link to buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Emperor-Gates-Novel-Julius-Caesar/dp/0385343019/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1670420114&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Emperor-Gates-Novel-Julius-Caesar/dp/0385343019/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1670420114&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read?: false
- Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
- Notes: -

### 42. [Caesar: Life of a Colossus](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/77954/books-about-rome-ancient-rome-fiction-etc/47/caesar-life-of-a-colossus)

Item ID: `47`

- Author: Adrian Goldsworthy
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/wofm2ltvhukykokrxv7q.jpg)
- Category: Nonfiction, Ancient Rome
- Published in: 2006
- Pages: 583
- Available in: Ebook, Audiobook, Hardcover, Paperback, CD
- Synopsis: Tracing the extraordinary trajectory of the great Roman emperor’s life, Goldsworthy covers not only the great Roman emperor’s accomplishments as charismatic orator, conquering general, and powerful dictator but also lesser-known chapters during which he was high priest of an exotic cult, captive of pirates, seducer not only of Cleopatra but also of the wives of his two main political rivals, and rebel condemned by his own country. Ultimately, Goldsworthy realizes the full complexity of Caesar’s character and shows why his political and military leadership continues to resonate some two thousand years later.In the introduction to his biography of the great Roman emperor, Adrian Goldsworthy writes, “Caesar was at times many things, including a fugitive, prisoner, rising politician, army leader, legal advocate, rebel, dictator . . . as well as husband, father, lover and adulterer.” In this landmark biography, Goldsworthy examines Caesar as military leader, all of these roles and places his subject firmly within the context of Roman society in the first century B.C.
- Link to buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Caesar-Life-Colossus-Adrian-Goldsworthy/dp/0300120486/ref=tmm\_hrd\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1670420443&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Caesar-Life-Colossus-Adrian-Goldsworthy/dp/0300120486/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1670420443&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read?: false
- Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
- Notes: -

### 43. [Under the Eagle: A Tale of Military Adventure and Reckless Heroism with the Roman Legions](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/77954/books-about-rome-ancient-rome-fiction-etc/48/under-the-eagle-a-tale-of-military-adventure-and-reckless-heroism-with-the-roman-legions)

Item ID: `48`

- Author: Simon Scarrow
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/xhkyyzjiwgmokuthrdxn.jpg)
- Category: Fiction
- Published in: 2000
- Pages: 256
- Available in: Ebook, Audiobook, Hardcover, Paperback
- Synopsis: It is the year 42 AD, and Centurion Macro, battle-scarred and fearless, is in the heart of Germany with the Second Legion, the toughest in the Roman army. Cato, a new recruit and the newly appointed second-in-command to Macro, will have more to prove than most. In a bloody skirmish with local tribes, Cato gets his first chance to prove that he's more than a callow, privileged youth. As their next campaign takes them to a land of unparalleled barbarity - Britain - a special mission unfolds, thrusting Cato and Macro headlong into a conspiracy that threatens to topple the Emperor himself.
- Link to buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Under-Eagle-Military-Adventure-Reckless/dp/0312278705/ref=tmm\_hrd\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1670420616&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Under-Eagle-Military-Adventure-Reckless/dp/0312278705/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1670420616&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read?: false
- Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
- Notes: -

### 44. [The Forgotten Legion](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/77954/books-about-rome-ancient-rome-fiction-etc/50/the-forgotten-legion)

Item ID: `50`

- Author: Ben Kane
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/ozxikt3d6boeg8z9eiyd.jpg)
- Category: Fiction
- Published in: 2002
- Pages: 544
- Available in: Ebook, Hardcover, Paperback
- Synopsis: Romulus and Fabiola are twins, born into slavery, and then later sold: Romulus to gladiator school, and Fabiola into prostitution, where she will catch the eye of one of the most powerful men in Rome.Tarquinius is an Etruscan, a warrior, born enemy of Rome and trained by the last haruspex in the forgotten arts of divination. A runaway slave, then an AWOL Legionaire, he has a long foretold destiny that will take him to the ends of the known world.Brennus is a Gaul who lost his entire clain in a battle against the Roman Army. After being sold as a slave he rises to bcome one of the most famous and feared gladiators of his day.The lives of these four are interwoven in story that ranges from a Rome riven by corruption, violence and political enmities to ends of the empire, where Romulus, Brennus and Tarquinius find themselves fighting against the Parthians and overwhelming odds - members of The Forgotten Legion.
- Link to buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Forgotten-Legion-Chronicles/dp/0312601247/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1670421149&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Forgotten-Legion-Chronicles/dp/0312601247/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1670421149&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read?: false
- Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
- Notes: -

### 45. [The Course of Honour](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/77954/books-about-rome-ancient-rome-fiction-etc/51/the-course-of-honour)

Item ID: `51`

- Author: Lindsey Davis
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/wmrbjl15fggas1r05ayf.jpg)
- Category: Fiction
- Published in: 1997
- Pages: 341
- Available in: Ebook, Audiobook, Hardcover, Paperback, CD
- Synopsis: In ancient Rome, ambitious citizens who aspired to political power, to become one of the ruling elite―a senator, had to follow what was known as "The Course of Honor." This course had only one unbreakable rule: a senator is forbidden to marry a slave, even a freed slave. When the soldier Vespasian meets an interesting girl in the imperial palace, he doesn't know she is a slave in the household of the imperial family. But he is inexorably drawn in by her intelligence and charisma. Yet as Vespasian slowly rises from near-obscurity and as emperor after emperor plays out their own deadly, seductive games of lust and conquest, the future is something no one could imagine. No one could believe that a country-born army man might win the throne―no one, that is, except a slave girl who, with the future Emperor, begins a daring course of honor of her own.
- Link to buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Course-Honour-Lindsey-Davis/dp/0312556160/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1670421276&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Course-Honour-Lindsey-Davis/dp/0312556160/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1670421276&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read?: false
- Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
- Notes: -

### 46. [Escape from Pompeii](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/77954/books-about-rome-ancient-rome-fiction-etc/52/escape-from-pompeii)

Item ID: `52`

- Author: Christina Balit
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/huzpa0b99jutsy5ywlmv.jpg)
- Category: Nonfiction, Children, Ancient Rome
- Published in: 2003
- Pages: 32
- Available in: Hardcover, Paperback
- Synopsis: Join Tranio, the son of an actor, and his friend Livia, the baker's daughter, in witnessing the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD79. Tranio, like most Roman boys, likes to watch whatever is going on: tradesmen selling their goods, ships unloading their exotic cargoes, politicians making speeches in the forum. But one hot August day a very different scene unfolds. The ground begins to shake, the sky to darken. Heading for the harbor, Tranio and his friend Livia hide on a boat and witness one of the most terrifying moments in recorded history-the eruption of Mount Vesuvius and the destruction of their beloved city, Pompeii.
- Link to buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Escape-Pompeii-Christina-Balit/dp/1845070593/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=3JBT9SEGU8AHO&keywords=Escape+from+Pompeii&qid=1670421418&sprefix=escape+from+pompeii%2Caps%2C206&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Escape-Pompeii-Christina-Balit/dp/1845070593/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3JBT9SEGU8AHO&keywords=Escape+from+Pompeii&qid=1670421418&sprefix=escape+from+pompeii%2Caps%2C206&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read?: false
- Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
- Notes: -

### 47. [Pompeii... Buried Alive!](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/77954/books-about-rome-ancient-rome-fiction-etc/53/pompeii-buried-alive)

Item ID: `53`

- Author: Edith Kunhardt
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/herawp0jkov2z19ufgxr.jpg)
- Category: Nonfiction, Children, Ancient Rome
- Published in: 1987
- Pages: 48
- Available in: Ebook, Paperback
- Synopsis: Step 4 Readers use challenging vocabulary and short paragraphs to tell exciting stories. For newly independent readers who read simple sentences with confidence. With full-color illustrations.
- Link to buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Pompeii-Buried-Alive-Step-Reading/dp/0394888669/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=3NHD5C0LCFAHI&keywords=Pompeii...+Buried+Alive%21&qid=1670421548&sprefix=pompeii...+buried+alive+%2Caps%2C221&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Pompeii-Buried-Alive-Step-Reading/dp/0394888669/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3NHD5C0LCFAHI&keywords=Pompeii...+Buried+Alive%21&qid=1670421548&sprefix=pompeii...+buried+alive+%2Caps%2C221&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read?: false
- Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
- Notes: -

### 48. [The Eagle of the Ninth](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/77954/books-about-rome-ancient-rome-fiction-etc/54/the-eagle-of-the-ninth)

Item ID: `54`

- Author: Rosemary Sutcliff
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/w4zkyrm8opbijfjjtbbv.jpg)
- Category: Fiction, Young Adult
- Published in: 1954
- Pages: 210
- Available in: Ebook, Audiobook, Hardcover, Paperback
- Synopsis: The Ninth Legion marched into the mists of Northern Britain―and they were never seen again. Four thousand men disappeared and their eagle standard was lost. It's a mystery that's never been solved, until now . . .Marcus Aquila has to find out what happened to his father, who led the legion. So he sets out into the unknown, on a quest so dangerous that nobody expects him to return.
- Link to buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Eagle-Ninth-Roman-Britain-Trilogy/dp/0312644299/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=NOHGKBKZZTEE&keywords=The+Eagle+Rosemary+Sutcliff&qid=1670421704&sprefix=the+eagle+rosemary+sutcliff%2Caps%2C245&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Eagle-Ninth-Roman-Britain-Trilogy/dp/0312644299/ref=sr_1_1?crid=NOHGKBKZZTEE&keywords=The+Eagle+Rosemary+Sutcliff&qid=1670421704&sprefix=the+eagle+rosemary+sutcliff%2Caps%2C245&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read?: false
- Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
- Notes: -

### 49. [Ruthless Romans](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/77954/books-about-rome-ancient-rome-fiction-etc/55/ruthless-romans)

Item ID: `55`

- Author: Terry Deary
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/mmuqdcf5sd2jnpa7hnit.jpg)
- Category: Nonfiction, Children
- Published in: 2003
- Pages: 144
- Available in: Ebook, Paperback
- Synopsis: Ruthless Romans reveals the grim goings-on of the greatest empire ever, from the terrible twins who founded Rome to the evil emperors who made murder into a sport. Read on for gory details about the cruel Colosseum and the people and animals who were massacred there... and find out how, if you upset them enough, the ruthless Romans would CRUCIFY you. Eeek!
- Link to buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Ruthless-Romans-Horrible-Histories-ARNOLD/dp/1407167022/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=2LYJJ7GRW80ZX&keywords=Ruthless+Romans&qid=1670421863&sprefix=ruthless+romans%2Caps%2C229&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Ruthless-Romans-Horrible-Histories-ARNOLD/dp/1407167022/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2LYJJ7GRW80ZX&keywords=Ruthless+Romans&qid=1670421863&sprefix=ruthless+romans%2Caps%2C229&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read?: false
- Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
- Notes: -

### 50. [Ancient Rome](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/77954/books-about-rome-ancient-rome-fiction-etc/56/ancient-rome)

Item ID: `56`

- Author: Simon James
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/pmmw8pyk91dsjqnd0pon.jpg)
- Category: Nonfiction, Children, Ancient Rome
- Published in: 1990
- Pages: 72
- Available in: Ebook, Paperback
- Synopsis: Who were Rome's most famous emperors? What was everyday life like for a soldier in the Roman army? How did the citizens of ancient Rome live? Did gladiators really fight to the death in the mighty Colosseum? Find out the answers to all these questions, and many more, in Eyewitness: Ancient Rome.Photographs of real artifacts and detailed illustrations will help you to learn all about the time of ancient Rome, from a small city-state ruled by kings to one of the most powerful empires in history. Find out what a typical Roman house was like and what food Romans ate. Learn about how people spent their free time, whether paying a visit to the theatre, using the public bath, or watching gladiators fight a gruesome battle to the death in the world-famous Colosseum.
- Link to buy: [https://www.amazon.com/DK-Eyewitness-Books-Discover-Civilizations/dp/1465435689/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=1GRD4N1RSI3HQ&keywords=Ancient+Rome+simon+james&qid=1670422717&sprefix=ancient+rome+simon+james%2Caps%2C254&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/DK-Eyewitness-Books-Discover-Civilizations/dp/1465435689/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1GRD4N1RSI3HQ&keywords=Ancient+Rome+simon+james&qid=1670422717&sprefix=ancient+rome+simon+james%2Caps%2C254&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read?: false
- Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
- Notes: -

### 51. [Galen and the Gateway to Medicine](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/77954/books-about-rome-ancient-rome-fiction-etc/57/galen-and-the-gateway-to-medicine)

Item ID: `57`

- Author: Jeanne Bendick
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/tydmru5ovrusjkxlhgn7.jpg)
- Category: Nonfiction, Children, Ancient Rome
- Published in: 2002
- Pages: 152
- Available in: Ebook, Paperback
- Synopsis: We know about Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine. But we owe nearly as much to Galen, a physician born in 129 A.D. at the height of the Roman Empire. Galen's acute diagnoses of patients, his botanical wisdom and studies of physiology were recorded in numerous books, handed down through the Middle Ages and Renaissance. He developed sports medicine, doctoring gladiators. Not least, Galen passed on the medical tradition of respect for life. In this fascinating biography for young people, Jeanne Bendick brings Galen's Roman world alive with the clarity, humor, and outstanding content we enjoyed in Archimedes and the Door to Science. An excellent addition to schools, libraries, and homes; ideal for home education.
- Link to buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Gateway-Medicine-Living-History-Library/dp/1883937752/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=29P2DZYIN8XCM&keywords=Galen+and+the+Gateway+to+Medicine&qid=1670423067&sprefix=galen+and+the+gateway+to+medicine%2Caps%2C327&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Gateway-Medicine-Living-History-Library/dp/1883937752/ref=sr_1_1?crid=29P2DZYIN8XCM&keywords=Galen+and+the+Gateway+to+Medicine&qid=1670423067&sprefix=galen+and+the+gateway+to+medicine%2Caps%2C327&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read?: false
- Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
- Notes: -

### 52. [Fire in the East](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/77954/books-about-rome-ancient-rome-fiction-etc/58/fire-in-the-east)

Item ID: `58`

- Author: Harry Sidebottom
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/ze0gpqqsjuwqf0x92aij.jpg)
- Category: Fiction, Ancient Rome
- Published in: 2008
- Pages: 448
- Available in: Ebook, Audiobook, Hardcover, Paperback, CD
- Synopsis: The year is AD 255 - the Roman Imperium is stretched to breaking point, its authority and might challenged along every border. The greatest threat lies in Persia to the east, where the massing forces of the Sassanid Empire loom with fiery menace. There the isolated Roman citadel of Arete awaits inevitable invasion. One man is sent to marshal the defences and shore up crumbling walls. A man whose name itself means war: a man called Ballista. Alone, Ballista is called to muster the forces and the courage to stand first and to stand hard against the greatest enemy ever to confront the Imperium. This is part one of Warrior of Rome: an epic of empire, of heroes, of treachery, of courage, and most of all, a story of brutal bloody warfare.
- Link to buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Fire-East-Warrior-Rome-I/dp/0141032294/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1670423204&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Fire-East-Warrior-Rome-I/dp/0141032294/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1670423204&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read?: false
- Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
- Notes: -

### 53. [Roma: The Novel of Ancient Rome](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/77954/books-about-rome-ancient-rome-fiction-etc/59/roma-the-novel-of-ancient-rome)

Item ID: `59`

- Author: Steven Saylor
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/s3dxfmhezreedmrj6s3a.jpg)
- Category: Fiction, Ancient Rome
- Published in: 2007
- Pages: 592
- Available in: Ebook, Audiobook, Hardcover, Paperback, CD
- Synopsis: Weaving history, legend, and new archaeological discoveries into a spellbinding narrative, critically acclaimed novelist Steven Saylor gives new life to the drama of the city's first thousand years ― from the founding of the city by the ill-fated twins Romulus and Remus, through Rome's astonishing ascent to become the capitol of the most powerful empire in history. Roma recounts the tragedy of the hero-traitor Coriolanus, the capture of the city by the Gauls, the invasion of Hannibal, the bitter political struggles of the patricians and plebeians, and the ultimate death of Rome's republic with the triumph, and assassination, of Julius Caesar.Witnessing this history, and sometimes playing key roles, are the descendents of two of Rome's first families, the Potitius and Pinarius clans: One is the confidant of Romulus. One is born a slave and tempts a Vestal virgin to break her vows. One becomes a mass murderer. And one becomes the heir of Julius Caesar. Linking the generations is amysterious talisman as ancient as the city itself.
- Link to buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Roma-Novel-Ancient-Rome-Novels/dp/0312377622/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1670423344&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Roma-Novel-Ancient-Rome-Novels/dp/0312377622/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1670423344&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read?: false
- Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
- Notes: -

### 54. [The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/77954/books-about-rome-ancient-rome-fiction-etc/60/the-history-of-the-ancient-world-from-the-earliest-accounts-to-the-fall-of-rome)

Item ID: `60`

- Author: Susan Wise Bauer
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/ixvlmlpikygxrtayidlh.jpg)
- Category: Nonfiction, Ancient Rome
- Published in: 2007
- Pages: 896
- Available in: Ebook, Audiobook, Hardcover
- Synopsis:
  > This is the first volume in a bold series that tells the stories of all peoples, connecting historical events from Europe to the Middle East to the far coast of China, while still giving weight to the characteristics of each country. Susan Wise Bauer provides both sweeping scope and vivid attention to the individual lives that give flesh to abstract assertions about human history.
  > 
  > Dozens of maps provide a clear geography of great events, while timelines give the reader an ongoing sense of the passage of years and cultural interconnection. This old-fashioned narrative history employs the methods of “history from beneath”―literature, epic traditions, private letters and accounts―to connect kings and leaders with the lives of those they ruled. The result is an engrossing tapestry of human behavior from which we may draw conclusions about the direction of world events and the causes behind them.
- Link to buy: [https://www.amazon.com/History-of-Ancient-World-audiobook/dp/B00D1YRUL4/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=2KG2L0UHD6TB4&keywords=the+history+of+the+ancient+world&qid=1670423473&sprefix=The+History+of+the+Ancient+World%2Caps%2C204&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/History-of-Ancient-World-audiobook/dp/B00D1YRUL4/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2KG2L0UHD6TB4&keywords=the+history+of+the+ancient+world&qid=1670423473&sprefix=The+History+of+the+Ancient+World%2Caps%2C204&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read?: false
- Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
- Notes: -

### 55. [Domina: The Women Who Made Imperial Rome](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/77954/books-about-rome-ancient-rome-fiction-etc/61/domina-the-women-who-made-imperial-rome)

Item ID: `61`

- Author: Guy de la Bédoyère
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/gawdc9i0k7ie9wfvipn6.jpg)
- Category: Nonfiction, Ancient Rome
- Published in: 2018
- Pages: 408
- Available in: Ebook, Audiobook, Hardcover, Paperback, CD
- Synopsis: Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero—these are the names history associates with the early Roman Empire. Yet, not a single one of these emperors was the blood son of his predecessor. In this captivating history, a prominent scholar of the era documents the Julio-Claudian women whose bloodline, ambition, and ruthlessness made it possible for the emperors’ line to continue.
- Link to buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Domina-Women-Made-Imperial-Rome/dp/0300230303/ref=tmm\_hrd\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1670423813&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Domina-Women-Made-Imperial-Rome/dp/0300230303/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1670423813&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read?: false
- Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
- Notes: -

### 56. [The Last Assassin: The Hunt for the Killers of Julius Caesar](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/77954/books-about-rome-ancient-rome-fiction-etc/62/the-last-assassin-the-hunt-for-the-killers-of-julius-caesar)

Item ID: `62`

- Author: Peter Stothard
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/boiem050e87eip0dz4o0.jpg)
- Category: Nonfiction, Ancient Rome
- Published in: 2020
- Pages: 288
- Available in: Ebook, Hardcover, Paperback
- Synopsis:
  > Many men killed Julius Caesar. Only one man was determined to kill the killers. From the spring of 44 BC through one of the most dramatic and influential periods in history, Caesar's adopted son, Octavian, the future Emperor Augustus, exacted vengeance on the assassins of the Ides of March, not only on Brutus and Cassius, immortalized by Shakespeare, but all the others too, each with his own individual story.The last assassin left alive was one of the lesser-known: Cassius Parmensis was a poet and sailor who chose every side in the dying Republic's civil wars except the winning one, a playwright whose work was said to have been stolen and published by the man sent to kill him. Parmensis was in the back row of the plotters, many of them Caesar's friends, who killed for reasons of the highest political principles and lowest personal piques. For fourteen years he was the most successful at evading his hunters but has been barely a historical foot note--until now.  
  > The Last Assassin dazzlingly charts an epic turn of history through the eyes of an unheralded man. It is a history of a hunt that an emperor wanted to hide, of torture and terror, politics and poetry, of ideas and their consequences, a gripping story of fear, revenge, and survival.
- Link to buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Last-Assassin-Killers-Julius-Caesar/dp/0197604870/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=ZY6HFFNP7T2A&keywords=the+last+assassin+peter+stothard&qid=1670423949&sprefix=The+Last+Assassin%2Caps%2C205&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Last-Assassin-Killers-Julius-Caesar/dp/0197604870/ref=sr_1_1?crid=ZY6HFFNP7T2A&keywords=the+last+assassin+peter+stothard&qid=1670423949&sprefix=The+Last+Assassin%2Caps%2C205&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read?: false
- Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
- Notes: -

### 57. [Angels & Demons](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/77954/books-about-rome-ancient-rome-fiction-etc/64/angels--demons)

Item ID: `64`

- Author: Dan Brown
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/nbkaeomegtjilhigu5mx.jpg)
- Category: Fiction
- Published in: 2000
- Pages: 496
- Available in: Ebook, Audiobook, Hardcover, Paperback
- Synopsis: An ancient secret brotherhood. A devastating new weapon of destruction. An unthinkable target. When world-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to his first assignment to a Swiss research facility to analyze a mysterious symbol—seared into the chest of a murdered physicist—he discovers evidence of the unimaginable: the resurgence of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati...the most powerful underground organization ever to walk the earth. The Illuminati has now surfaced to carry out the final phase of its legendary vendetta against its most hated enemy—the Catholic Church.Langdon’s worst fears are confirmed on the eve of the Vatican’s holy conclave, when a messenger of the Illuminati announces they have hidden an unstoppable time bomb at the very heart of Vatican City. With the countdown under way, Langdon jets to Rome to join forces with Vittoria Vetra, a beautiful and mysterious Italian scientist, to assist the Vatican in a desperate bid for survival.Embarking on a frantic hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, deserted cathedrals, and the most secretive vault on earth, Langdon and Vetra follow a 400-year-old trail of ancient symbols that snakes across Rome toward the long-forgotten Illuminati lair...a clandestine location that contains the only hope for Vatican salvation.
- Link to buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Angels-Demons-Novel-Robert-Langdon/dp/074349346X/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1670424142&sr=8-2](https://www.amazon.com/Angels-Demons-Novel-Robert-Langdon/dp/074349346X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1670424142&sr=8-2&tag=listium03-20)
- Read?: false
- Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
- Notes: -

### 58. [The First Man in Rome](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/77954/books-about-rome-ancient-rome-fiction-etc/67/the-first-man-in-rome)

Item ID: `67`

- Author: Colleen McCullough
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/sxftvzjpiyspxxfnn4sl.jpg)
- Category: Fiction, Ancient Rome
- Published in: 1990
- Pages: 1123
- Available in: Ebook, Audiobook, Hardcover, Paperback
- Synopsis: When the world cowered before the legions of Rome, two extraordinary men dreamed of personal glory: the military genius and wealthy rural "upstart" Marius, and Sulla, penniless and debauched but of aristocratic birth. Men of exceptional vision, courage, cunning, and ruthless ambition, separately they faced the insurmountable opposition of powerful, vindictive foes. Yet allied they could answer the treachery of rivals, lovers, enemy generals, and senatorial vipers with intricate and merciless machinations of their own—to achieve in the end a bloody and splendid foretold destiny . . . and win the most coveted honor the Republic could bestow.
- Link to buy: [https://www.amazon.com/First-Man-Rome-Masters-Book-ebook/dp/B081CYGQZQ/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=2NL67BJNBC2RU&keywords=The+First+Man+in+Rome&qid=1670424409&sprefix=the+first+man+in+rome%2Caps%2C204&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/First-Man-Rome-Masters-Book-ebook/dp/B081CYGQZQ/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2NL67BJNBC2RU&keywords=The+First+Man+in+Rome&qid=1670424409&sprefix=the+first+man+in+rome%2Caps%2C204&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read?: false
- Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
- Notes: -

### 59. [Lucrezia Borgia](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/77954/books-about-rome-ancient-rome-fiction-etc/68/lucrezia-borgia)

Item ID: `68`

- Author: Maria Bellonci
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/kj7fgco8ln2izfyrqypt.jpg)
- Category: Nonfiction
- Published in: 1939
- Pages: 352
- Available in: Audiobook, Hardcover, Paperback
- Synopsis: Although she was a daughter of Pope Alexander VI and chiefly remembered as a raven-haired poisoner, Bellonci depicts a passionate woman moving uncertainly through the Papal court and the intrigues, ambitions and political chicanery that swirled about her. Winner of the Viareggio Literary Award and the Galante Prize in Italy in 1953.
- Link to buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Lucrezia-Borgia-Maria-Bellonci/dp/184212059X/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1670424766&sr=8-3](https://www.amazon.com/Lucrezia-Borgia-Maria-Bellonci/dp/184212059X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1670424766&sr=8-3&tag=listium03-20)
- Read?: false
- Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
- Notes: -

### 60. [Pompeii](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/77954/books-about-rome-ancient-rome-fiction-etc/69/pompeii)

Item ID: `69`

- Author: Robert Harris
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/hiaejyz7brl8u4hn8vhz.jpg)
- Category: Fiction
- Published in: 2003
- Pages: 368
- Available in: Ebook, Audiobook, Hardcover, Paperback
- Synopsis: All along the Mediterranean coast, the Roman empire’s richest citizens are relaxing in their luxurious villas, enjoying the last days of summer. The world’s largest navy lies peacefully at anchor in Misenum. The tourists are spending their money in the seaside resorts of Baiae, Herculaneum, and Pompeii.But the carefree lifestyle and gorgeous weather belie an impending cataclysm, and only one man is worried. The young engineer Marcus Attilius Primus has just taken charge of the Aqua Augusta, the enormous aqueduct that brings fresh water to a quarter of a million people in nine towns around the Bay of Naples. His predecessor has disappeared. Springs are failing for the first time in generations. And now there is a crisis on the Augusta’ s sixty-mile main line—somewhere to the north of Pompeii, on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius.Attilius—decent, practical, and incorruptible—promises Pliny, the famous scholar who commands the navy, that he can repair the aqueduct before the reservoir runs dry. His plan is to travel to Pompeii and put together an expedition, then head out to the place where he believes the fault lies. But Pompeii proves to be a corrupt and violent town, and Attilius soon discovers that there are powerful forces at work—both natural and man-made—threatening to destroy him.
- Link to buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Pompeii-Novel-Harris-Robert-ebook/dp/B000FBJF3M/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=35JK82KCREBDW&keywords=pompeii+robert+harris&qid=1670425108&sprefix=Pompeii%2Caps%2C225&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Pompeii-Novel-Harris-Robert-ebook/dp/B000FBJF3M/ref=sr_1_1?crid=35JK82KCREBDW&keywords=pompeii+robert+harris&qid=1670425108&sprefix=Pompeii%2Caps%2C225&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read?: false
- Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
- Notes: -