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Colleen McCullough published The First Man in Rome in 1990 and over the following fifteen years completed six more novels covering the late Roman Republic from Marius and Sulla through the assassination of Caesar. The Masters of Rome series is the most extensively researched work …
Robert Graves published I, Claudius in 1934, followed immediately by its sequel Claudius the God, and the two novels together constitute the most …
Steven Saylor began publishing his Roma Sub Rosa mystery series in 1991 with Roman Blood, a novel centered on one of Cicero’s actual legal cases — the …
The tradition of serious English historical fiction about Rome begins, in its modern form, with Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s The Last Days of Pompeii in …