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August 13, 2015

Book Review: Under Another Sky

August 13, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

Part history, part travel guide, part novel - a wonderful new book takes readers on a tour of Roman Britain

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August 13, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
Ancient Rome
August 2015, keeping up with the romans
August 01, 2015

Book Review: Brothers in Blood

August 01, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

In the latest Roman historical novel from old pro Simon Scarrow, two heroic legionaries are chasing an infamous local warlord in Britannia - and facing treachery from within their own ranks

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August 01, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
Ancient Rome, Fiction
August 2015, fiction, keeping up with the romans
July 26, 2015

Book Review: Rome's Revolution

July 26, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

The epic change in ancient Rome from a Republic to an Empire hinged on one man: Julius Caesar. A new history tells the familiar story.

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July 26, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
Ancient Rome
July 2015, keeping up with the romans
July 08, 2015

Book Review: The War at the Edge of the World

July 08, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

A decorated Roman soldier accompanies a dangerous mission into barbarian territory in 4th century Britain

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July 08, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
Ancient Rome, Fiction
fiction, July 2015, keeping up with the romans
July 27, 2014

Book Review: Taken at the Flood

July 27, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

Poe's neat pairing of "the glory that was Greece" and "the grandeur that was Rome" belies the complexity of Republican Rome's rapid expansion into the greater Mediterranean world and Asia Minor, the fascinating subject of Robin Waterfield's new book

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July 27, 2014/ Steve Donoghue/
Ancient Rome
July 2014, keeping up with the romans, roman history
May 26, 2014

In Paperback: Dark Omens

May 26, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

Dauntless mosaic-layer Libertus returns for another side-job of crime-solving in Rosemary Rowe's latest gripping murder mystery set in Roman Britain

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May 26, 2014/ Steve Donoghue/
Ancient Rome
keeping up with the romans, May 2014
August 14, 2013

Book Review: The Twelve Caesars

August 14, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

The ancient Roman historian Suetonius wrote such a rollicking, gossipy book about the first twelve emperors that historians have been re-writing his book ever since

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August 14, 2013/ Steve Donoghue/
Ancient Rome
ancient rome, August 2013, keeping up with the romans
June 17, 2013

Book Review: Horace and Me

June 17, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

A columnist for the Financial Times looks at what the Roman poet Horace has meant to him over the years

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June 17, 2013/ Steve Donoghue/
Ancient Rome
ancient rome, June 2013, keeping up with the romans
June 10, 2013

Book Review: The Ides of April

June 10, 2013/ Open Letters Monthly

Fans of Lindsey Davis' long-running mystery series starring ancient Roman P. I. Falco now get the first volume in a new series featuring his intrepid daughter following in his footsteps

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June 10, 2013/ Open Letters Monthly/
Ancient Rome
June 2013, keeping up with the romans
March 05, 2013

Book Review: The Murder of Cleopatra

March 05, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

When examining the death of Cleopatra, it's inevitable: sooner or later, you're going to have to deal with asp-holes

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March 05, 2013/ Steve Donoghue/
Ancient Rome
keeping up with the romans, March 2013, roman history
January 12, 2013

Book Review: A Jew Among Romans

January 12, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

A new - and forgiving? - look at the ancient Jewish historian whose very name has been hated for two thousand years.

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January 12, 2013/ Steve Donoghue/
Ancient Rome
ancient history, ancient rome, January 2013, keeping up with the romans, roman history
September 03, 2012

Book Review: Legions of Rome

September 03, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

A comprehensive - and visually stunning - overview of the mighty Roman legions and the world they helped to shape.

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September 03, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
Ancient Rome
history, keeping up with the romans, military history, roman history, September 2012
September 03, 2012

Book Review: Master and God

September 03, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

An ambitious historical novel about the dark days of the emperor Domitian by the popular mystery author Lindsey Davis.

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September 03, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
Ancient Rome
ancient rome, keeping up with the romans, September 2012
September 03, 2012

Now in Paperback: Hadrian

September 03, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

A lavishly illustrated biography of the Roman emperor Hadrian - now in bookstores in paperback - takes readers inside the world of an empire (and its ruler) undergoing one long identity crisis

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September 03, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
Ancient Rome
ancient rome, keeping up with the romans, roman history, September 2012
February 20, 2012

Book Review: The Frontiers of Imperial Rome

February 20, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

The frontiers of ancient Rome - the limits by which it defined both itself and its enemies - stretched from the Tigris and Euphrates to the Irish Sea. In this muscular new study, those frontiers take center stage.

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February 20, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
Ancient Rome
February 2012, history, keeping up with the romans, military history, roman history
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