Fiction set in Ancient Rome
There is a body of modern
fiction set in ancient
Rome
. Titles include
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Books
I, Claudius
and its sequel,
Claudius the God
, by
Robert Graves
. The classic dramatised account of the life of the emperor Claudius.
Augustus
and
Tiberius
by Allan Massie.
The First Man in Rome
and sequels by
Colleen McCullough
.
A Song for Nero
by
Tom Holt
.
Household Gods
by Judith Tarr and
Harry Turtledove
Caesar's Bicycle
by
John Barnes
Quo Vadis
by
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Memoirs of Hadrian
by
Marguerite Yourcenar
The Robe
by
Lloyd C. Douglas
Pompeii
by
Robert Harris
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Detective fiction
The
Roma Sub Rosa
series by
Steven Saylor
, starts with
Roman Blood
.
The
Marcus Didius Falco
series by
Lindsey Davis
.
The SPQR series by John Maddox Roberts.
The Germanicus Mosaic series by Rosemary Rowe - set in Roman Britain.
The Claudia series by Marilyn Todd
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Movies
The Robe
- U.S. 1953 director
Henry Koster
Demetrius and the Gladiators
- U.S. 1954 director Delmer Daves (sequel to
The Robe
)
Ben-Hur
U.S. 1959
Spartacus
- U.S. 1960 director
Stanley Kubrick
Cleopatra
- U.S. 1963 director
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
The Fall of the Roman Empire
- U.S. 1964 director
Anthony Mann
Satyricon
- Italy 1970 director
Federico Fellini
I, Claudius
- U.K. 1976, BBC 13 hour miniseries
Caligula
- U.S. 1979 director
Tinto Brass
Gladiator
- U.S. 1999 director
Ridley Scott
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Plays
Joseph Addison
Cato
William Shakespeare
Titus Andronicus
Julius Caesar
Antony and Cleopatra
Coriolanus
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Television
Up Pompeii!