includes some of the major monuments of antiquity such as the Forums, the Mausoleum of Augustus, the Mausoleum of Hadrian, the Pantheon, Trajan's Column and the Column of Marcus Aurelius, as well as ...

Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2011. Pp. iv, 248. Illus., diagr., notes, biblio., index. $65.00. ISBN: 0807834610.

A lesson from second century Marcus Aurelius. He was one of Rome’s only five good emperors. He reigned at the peak of the ...

Beneath the starched togas and the pungent fug of gladiator sweat there are real Romans waiting to be discovered. In new BBC Radio 4 series Being Roman, best-selling historian of the ancient world ...