Subject: Rome (Keywords)

Ten bulleted facts on every spread, accompanied by hundreds of illustrations and photographs, give children a detailed and comprehensive view of the ancient Roman civilization, from daily life through to warfare, politics, art and culture, education, great monuments and archaeology today.

Walk a day in a Roman's sandals. What was it like to live in one of the ancient world's most powerful and bustling cities - one that was eight times more densely populated than modern day New York? In this entertaining and enlightening guide, bestselling historian Philip Matyszak introduces us to...

Ideal for business and leisure, each succinct title in this series provides the reader with all the practical information they need. Each city guide has been broken up into colour-coded districts, with the colour-coding cross-referenced throughout each section.

Having returned from his trip to Londinium, Falco takes up employment with Africanus and Italicus, preparing an affidavit for the trial of a senator. The prosecution is successful but a month later the senator is dead, apparently by suicide.

Describing the legendary origin of the Roman nation, this poem tells the tale of the Trojan prince Aeneas, who escaped with some followers after the fall of Troy and sailed to Italy. Here they settled and laid the foundations of the Roman empire.

On his deathbed in 19 BCE, Vergil asked that his epic be burned and not published. If his wishes had been obeyed, western literature - and maybe even western civilization - might have taken a different course. 'The Aeneid' has remained a key text of university courses since the rise of universiti...

On his deathbed in 19 BCE, Vergil asked that his epic be burned and not published. If his wishes had been obeyed, western literature - and maybe even western civilization - might have taken a different course. 'The Aeneid' has remained a key text of university courses since the rise of universiti...

Seamus Heaney's translation of Book VI of the 'Aeneid', Virgil's epic poem composed sometime between 29 and 19 BC, follows the hero, Aeneas, on his descent into the underworld. In 'Stepping Stones', a book of interviews conducted by Dennis O'Driscoll, Heaney acknowledged the importance of the poe...

In a momentous publication, Seamus Heaney's translation of Book VI of the Aeneid, Virgil's epic poem composed sometime between 29 and 19 BC, follows the hero, Aeneas, on his descent into the underworld.

The great spectacles of ancient Rome have become proverbial for their cruelty, bloodlust and glory. In the arena, the games were savage and brutal. Gladiators fought each other to the death, wild animals were put to fight each other and criminals were executed by barbaric means. Military victorie...