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 ...

Why can we say that 146 BCE was crucial in the formation of the Roman Empire, perhaps more than any other single year?

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 ...

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 ...

In Book 15, the historian discusses the Great ... named Jesus was born in a little-known town on the edge of the Roman Empire and was killed 33 years later. While most scholars agree he was ...

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.

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