Vespasian is one of the more appealing Roman emperors. Emerging after the volatile ‘year of the four emperors’, we know surprisingly little about him. This,…
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Marcus Didius Falco is a favourite fictional creation of mine. The series written by Lindsey Davis has followed his career as an informer from the…
The test of any long running series is how eager the readers are for the next book; whether they are still as excited by the…
Antonia Caenis is one of those fascinating mysteries of Roman history. She is mentioned in a couple of later histories as being a freedwoman of…
Simon Turney is one of my ‘go to’ authors for great stories set in the ancient world – real or imagined. He is a great…
Anyone with an interest in Roman history, be that in fiction or non-fiction, will often come across military passages where various items of equipment are…
Anyone with an interest in Roman history is probably aware of the disaster that befell three legions under Publius Quinctilius Varus in the forests of…
There is a huge amount of historical fiction set in Ancient Rome, much of it, for me, very ordinary and very repetitive. There are umpteen…
Anyone interested in Roman history has probably heard of the battle of Carrhae; it was, after all, one of the greatest defeats the Roman Army…
Robert Fabbri’s fictional account of the life of Vespasian has got better and better through the series. This is the sixth volume and covers the…