From the August 2014 Issue And Then There Was One Augustus: From Revolutionary to Emperor By Adrian Goldsworthy LR
From the August 2008 Issue He Drank His Enemies Under the Table Philip II of Macedonia By Ian Worthington LR
From the September 2008 Issue The Scourge of God Attila the Hun: Barbarian Terror and the Fall of the Roman Empire By Christopher Kelly LR
From the March 2008 Issue International Man of History Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend By Richard Stoneman LR
From the November 2007 Issue Julius Through The Ages Caesar: A Life in Western Culture By Maria Wyke LR
From the March 2007 Issue The Sands of Egypt City of the Sharp-Nosed Fish: Greek Lives in Roman Egypt By Peter Parsons LR
From the October 2006 Issue The Republic Restored? The First Emperor: Caesar Augustus and the Triumph of Rome By Anthony Everitt LR
From the July 2006 Issue Britons Never Shall Be Slaves An Imperial Possession: Britain in the Roman Empire, 54 BC – AD 409 By David Mattingly LR
From the December 2005 Issue Marballs The Elgin Marbles: The Story of Archaeology’s Greatest Controversy By Dorothy King LR
From the October 2005 Issue Suicidal Snake-Strangler Hercules: Scenes from an Heroic Life By Alastair Blanshard LR
From the May 2014 Issue Omphalocracy Delphi: A History of the Center of the Ancient World By Michael Scott Sibyls: Prophecy and Power in the Ancient World By Jorge Guillermo LR
From the April 2012 Issue Land of Swamps & Sorties The Romans Who Shaped Britain By Sam Moorhead & David Stuttard LR
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