Ancient Rome
Count Belisarius
Originally published in 1936, Count Belisarius has not basked in the same limelight as Robert Graves’s two earlier masterpieces set…
The Fugitive From Corinth
80 AD Corinth. This Caroline Lawrence’s tenth Roman mystery, and the young detectives, Nubia, Flavia, Lupus and Jonathan, are in…
The Grail King
In Avalon in A.D. 130, Clara, the daughter of the commander of the Second Roman Legion, seeks a magical grail…
Lady of the Light
In her phenomenal 1994 debut novel, The Light Bearer, Donna Gillespie introduced readers to the Germanic warrior and seer, Auriane,…
Imperium
Harris might be one of the most versatile historical novelists writing today, with successful efforts in alternate history (Fatherland), World…
Claudius The God
After the assassination of Caligula, the soldiers, on a high after the furious bloodletting and bent on looting the palace,…
I, Claudius
Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus survived the intrigues, power struggles and bloody purges of one of the most violent times…
Getorix: The Eagle And The Bull
Claodicos is a leader of the Celts, and he and his son Getorix are captured by Romans after a mighty…
The Queen of the Night
Editors' choice
Rome is horrified by a series of violent abductions in which the sons and daughters of the wealthiest Roman families…
The World of the Gladiator
From the origins of gladiatorial games in Rome’s early history, to its gruesome flowering, the author meticulously details the…
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