The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
If you love crime fiction and a detective tale, Watching the Detectives is for you. Watching the Detectives is an anthology that brings together thirteen short stories, alongside interviews with each author. Each story transports the reader to a different time in...
Caillan Davenport’s Behind Caesar’s Back is, for me, a rare book, in that it covers a subject I have not come across before and therefore opened up all sorts of new research ideas for me. The book investigates examples of gossip and rumour in Rome, from the end of the...
‘Rumour is always more terrifying when it concerns the deaths of the powerful’, wrote the Roman senator and historian Cornelius Tacitus in the early 2nd century CE. His statement can be equally applied to monarchs and potentates, both dynastic and elected, who, by...
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Harry Sidebottom has written an invaluable work for scholars and storytellers alike. Those Who Are About To Die is a masterclass in how to both educate and entertain the reader simultaneously. Although the overall narrative deals with one day in the life of a Roman...
“Her efforts did not produce definitive change or unqualified success, but in helping to shape the events of a pivotal century, she left legible traces of a consequential life.” With typical precision, Bruce Chilton ends Berenice: Queen in Roman Judaea. Throughout...
It is telling just how few mainstream films have tackled ancient Rome in the 21st century, with two notable exceptions… you know the ones I mean. Gladiators and the arches of the Colosseum are two of the most iconic images we have of the Romans and the Eternal City’s...
In Carausius and Allectus, John Pitts sets out to bring the world of Roman Britain to life through a narrative that is clearly grounded in a strong interest in the period. The novel draws on real historical figures and events, using them as a framework for a story...
The flogging of Queen Boudica and the rape of her daughters after the death of King Prasutagus of the Iceni remains an enigma. As a client kingdom of Rome, the Iceni royal family undoubtedly had Roman citizenship; whipping Boudica and raping her two daughters were...
