Found 882 results for "Rome in fiction"
Ab urbe condita
by Titus Livius
Quae ab condita urbe Roma ad captam eandem Romani sub regibus primum, consulibus deinde ac dictatoribus decemuirisque ac...
The history of the great plague in London in the year 1665
by Daniel Defoe
IT was about the beginning of September, 1664, that I, among the rest of my neighbours, heard, in ordinary discourse, th...
Ben Hur
by Lew Wallace
The Jebel es Zubleh is a mountain fifty miles and more in length, and so narrow that its tracery on the map gives it a l...
Metamorphoses
by Ovid
The classics were the raw material of the English Renaissance; to write in the sixteenth century meant to engage in dial...
The Age of Fable
by Thomas Bulfinch
ANCIENT mythologies have much to do with modern literature.
Mémoires d'Hadrien
by Marguerite Yourcenar
My dear Mark, Today I went to see my physician Hermogenes, who has just returned to the Villa from a rather long journey...
Meditations
by Marcus Aurelius
Her reverence for the divine, her generosity, her inability not only to do wrong but even to conceived of doing it.
The Prince
by Niccolò Machiavelli
Žmonės, geižiantys įgyti valdovo palankumą, paprastai stengiasi jam įsiteikti tuo, ką turi brangiausia, arba tuo, ką, jų...
Julius Caesar
by William Shakespeare
There is an aura of unreality about the plays of Shakespeare, and students feel this, although they may not be able to e...
Angels & Demons
by Dan Brown
High atop the steps of the Great Pyramid of Giza a young woman laughed and called down to him.
Lives
by Plutarch
As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes...
Antony and Cleopatra
by William Shakespeare
In the judgement of G. Wilson Knight, Anthony and Cleopatra was 'probably the subtlest and greatest play in Shakespeare'...
Satyricon
by Petronius
[Encolpius is in full flow:] 'This, surely, is the same band of Furies goading our teachers of rhetoric when they cry: "...
The Book of the Dead
by E. A. Wallis Budge, David Lorimer
The Recensions of the great body of religious compositions, which were drawn up for the use of dead kings, nobles, pries...
Quo Vadis? Powieść z czasów Nerona
by Henryk Sienkiewicz
PETRONIUS woke only about midday, and as usual greatly wearied.
The Thorn Birds
by Colleen McCullough, Colleen McCullough
On December 8th, 1915, Meggie Cleary had her fourth birthday.
The First Man in Rome
by Colleen McCullough
Having no personal commitment to either of the new consuls, Gaius Julius Caesar and his sons simply tacked themselves on...
