From Augustus Caesar proclaiming himself the first emperor of Rome in 31BC to the fall of the empire in 476 AD, we’ve curated a selection of the best books about Roman history below. SPQR ...

Roman elite interests associated the Jesus movement with broader groups that it made into criminalized targets. Williams ...

I, Claudius covers 51 years of the Roman Empire. Though the story is laid in ... is the subject of Author Graves’s forthcoming book, Claudius the God. The Author, at a defenseless age, was ...

It’s one of only four known Roman camps in the Netherlands and was really just a rest stop between larger fortifications.

The book of Acts in the Bible describes missionary ... to mother an heir who would be next in line to rule the entire Roman Empire. This ended disastrously for her, but Rome continued to rule ...

Any reader with an abiding interest in the subject will find this book to be a worthwhile investment. Kaldellis writes, “The history of the New Roman Empire is one of the most fascinating tales in ...

The Roman Empire has its parallels in contemporary American ... Members of the Catholic Book Club: We are taking a hiatus while we retool the Catholic Book Club and pick a new selection.

A new book published by historian Dagfinn Skre ... the king’s authority and strengthen alliances between different clans. The decline of the Roman Empire in the fifth century marked a turning point.