Ancient Rome
Antony and Cleopatra
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In this sprawling seventh novel, the latest in her Masters of Rome series, author McCullough recounts the gigantic power struggle…
The Pillars of Rome
This is the first book in a trilogy from an author more usually known as David Donachie, writer of historical…
A Different Kind of Honor
In 1879, Lt. Commander Peter Wake of the United States Navy is sent on special assignment to observe the forthcoming…
Dark North
Were there Africans in the Roman Army? The Historia Augusta describes an Ethiopian soldier presenting Emperor Septimius Severus with…
A Coin for the Ferryman
Gloucester, 189 AD. Celtic traditions, settlements and languages remain in the countryside, but in the towns Roman ways prevail, and…
The Fight for Rome
In 68 AD, the period known as the “Year of the Four Emperors,” Quintus Honorius Romanus, aka Taurus the gladiator,…
Saturnalia
Saturnalia was a Roman holiday that can best be compared to Las Vegas at its most riotous. That most famous…
The Slave-Girl From Jerusalem
AD 80. In this, the thirteenth Roman Mystery, the four friends, Flavia, Nubia, Jonathan and Lupus are in the port…
Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Ravens Of Avalon
Boudica, a Briton princess, arrives on the Isle of Mona to study the old ways with other children of chieftains…
The Fall of Rome
Attila is dead. The Western Roman Empire is tottering. As every source of order crumbles, life, already brutish and short,…
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