2007 Reading List
Augustus: The Life of Rome's First EmperorThe Medici Conspiracy: The Illicit Journey of Looted Antiquities--From Italy's Tomb Raiders to the World's Greatest MuseumsWeight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles (Myths, The)
Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor
by Anthony Everitt

He found Rome a city of brick and left it a city of marble. As Rome’s first emperor, Augustus transformed the unruly Republic ...
The Medici Conspiracy: The Illicit Journey ...
by Peter Watson

The sense of wonder experienced when contemplating the beauty and miraculous survival of an ancient vase will be profoundly al...
Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles (Myt...
by Jeanette Winterson

"When I was asked to choose a myth to write about, I realized I had chosen already. The story of Atlas holding up the world wa...
Imperium: A Novel of Ancient RomeRome: The Complete First SeasonPagan Holiday: On the Trail of Ancient Roman Tourists
Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome
by Robert Harris

Bestselling British author Harris (Pompeii; Enigma) returns to ancient Rome for this entertaining and enlightening novel of Ma...
Rome: The Complete First Season
$32.49
Family dysfunction. Treachery. Betrayal. Coarse profanity. Brutal violence. Graphic sex. No, it's not The Sopranos, it's Rome,...
Pagan Holiday: On the Trail of Ancient Roma...
by Tony Perrottet
$12.55
The ancient Romans were responsible for many remarkable achievements – Roman numerals, straight roads – but one of their lesse...
Julius CaesarThe Ides of March: A NovelVolare: The Icon of Italy in Global Pop Culture
Julius Caesar
$5.79
In Joseph Mankiewicz's traditional <i>Julius Caesar </i>(1953) Marlon Brando plays the opportunistic Marc Antony and delivers...
The Ides of March: A Novel
by Thornton Wilder
$10.76
Thornton Wilder's The Ides of March, first published in 1948, is a brilliant epistolary novel set in Julius Caesar's Rome. Wil...
Volare: The Icon of Italy in Global Pop Cul...
by Giannino Malossi