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Fiction set in Ancient Rome

There is a body of modern fiction set in ancient Rome. Titles include

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1 Books 2 Detective fiction 3 Movies 4 Plays 5 Television comedy

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

Detective fiction

• The Roma Sub Rosa series by Steven Saylor, starts with "Roman Blood".
• The 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

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 durector Anthony Mann
• Satyricon Italy 1970 director Federico Fellini
• I, Claudius U.K. 1976, BBC 13 hour miniseries
• Gladiator U.S. 1999 director Ridley Scott

Plays

• Joseph Addison
  • Cato
• William Shakespeare
  • Titus Andronicus
  • Julius Caesar
  • Antony and Cleopatra
  • Coriolanus

Television comedy

• Up Pompeii

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