rome

Presents a comprehensive history of Julian, the grandson of Constantine, and the reforms he enacted in the fourth century A.D. that limited the role of Christianity in the social and political life of the Roman Empire.

Atretes, a revered gladiator, has won his freedom and vows to find the son he believed had died, but retrieving the baby from Rizpah, the young widow who has raised the child from birth, proves more difficult than he thought it would be, and Atretes is moved to take Rizpah into his household and into his heart.

Cecilia, a teenage girl in Imperial Rome whose father has indulged her love of learning, is happy in her marriage to Valerian, but she must keep one of her life's greatest joys from him when she becomes a Christian, an act punishable by death.

An introduction to the first century of Roman imperial government. Analyzes the changing elements of power and Rome's first twelve emperors.

Contains five essays that examine the role of female characters in Roman epic.

Traces the lives of the last of the Roman emperors as seen through the eyes of Claudius.