July 2023 Issue Allan Massie Anni Mirabiles Pax: War and Peace in Rome’s Golden Age By Tom Holland LR
September 2021 Issue Simon J V Malloch The Case of the Missing Emperor Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern By Mary Beard LR
February 2021 Issue Simon J V Malloch Did He Really Fiddle? Rome is Burning: Nero and the Fire That Ended a Dynasty By Anthony A Barrett LR
April 2019 Issue Daisy Dunn They Thought the British Barbarians The Story of Greece and Rome By Tony Spawforth
September 2018 Issue Catharine Edwards By Jupiter Pantheon: A New History of Roman Religion By Jörg Rüpke (Translated by David M B Richardson) LR
October 2017 Issue Allan Massie Pillaged People Rome: A History in Seven Sackings By Matthew Kneale LR
June 2017 Issue Daisy Dunn Did They Invent Hair Gel? Caesar’s Footprints: Journeys to Roman Gaul By Bijan Omrani
June 2017 Issue Frank Brinkley Bring in the Heavies Praetorian: The Rise and Fall of Rome’s Imperial Bodyguard By Guy de la Bédoyère LR
July 1990 Issue Richard Cavendish Tale of the Underdogs The Celtic Empire By Peter Berresford Ellis LR
September 2015 Issue Allan Massie Succession Planning Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar By Tom Holland
June 2011 Issue Christopher Hart Plebs on Parade Invisible Romans: Prostitutes, Outlaws, Slaves, Gladiators and Others By Robert C Knapp LR
October 2008 Issue Allan Massie Walking with Ghosts Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town By Mary Beard LR
May 2008 Issue Philip Womack Eulogy to Euergetism Vote for Caesar: How the Ancient Greeks and Romans Solved the Problems of Today By Peter Jones LR
March 2007 Issue Peter Jones The Sands of Egypt City of the Sharp-Nosed Fish: Greek Lives in Roman Egypt By Peter Parsons LR
February 2007 Issue Jeremy Paterson Eternal Cities Rome and Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancient Civilizations By Martin Goodman LR
May 2014 Issue Paul Cartledge Corinth in Flames Taken at the Flood: The Roman Conquest of Greece By Robin Waterfield LR
June 2005 Issue Rowland Smith Doomed to Decay? The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History By Peter Heather LR
April 2012 Issue Peter Jones Land of Swamps & Sorties The Romans Who Shaped Britain By Sam Moorhead & David Stuttard LR
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