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From the lens Hail Caesar! Fiction Set in Ancient Rome.

Share my fascination with Rome? Think I need to get with the times? Let's hear from you!

  • may Apr 26, 2011 @ 1:37 pm | delete
    there a lot of information omg! i hate reading
  • WEverdell@earthlink.net Mar 20, 2011 @ 3:52 pm | delete
    I loved to read books by the Romans themselves, even the Roman citizens who wrote in Greek, like Polybius and Plutarch. For a start, try Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars, chapter on Caesar, then Plutarch's Life of Brutus (which Shakespeare used for his Julius Caesar).
  • LabKitty Nov 9, 2010 @ 3:13 pm | delete
    And on a lighter note, we lensrolled you to our Spartacus vs Rome lens. Cheers!
  • LabKitty Oct 2, 2010 @ 5:08 pm | delete
    How about the HBO miniseries? Is that cheating? That's cheating, isn't it?

    And because it just doesn't get said enough: BRUTUS DIDN'T BETRAY CAESAR, BRUTUS WAS DEFENDING THE REPUBLIC.

    Stupid Shakespeare.
  • Psychic_Sild Jun 25, 2009 @ 8:59 am | delete
    Conn Iggulden's Emperor series is the forerunner in my opinion. Like you I am fascinated by all that is Roman, the fact that so much that was good was overshadowed by the very mistakes we make today. Good lens
  • CrypticFragments Sep 22, 2008 @ 12:47 am | delete
    how on earth have I missed this til now? awesome lens Susan 5* of course and lensrolled to my lenses on ancient Rome
  • Nick Henry Jul 1, 2008 @ 9:57 pm | delete
    Hello there, you made a great page here and I thought I would pitch my own novel. Obviously there are a few kinks in it, and its most surely not up to Par with the likes of McCullough, I still wanted to mention it.
    "Raelina's Flowers" by Nicholas Henry
    From the point of view of a survivor of the Teutonvald Massacre of 9AD, bring many aspects into it, including one of the first chivalrous heroes (according to me :) )... and a good deal of german culture via Tacitus.

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