Roman People explains the ancient classical Roman world by focusing on individual personalities--what is known about them and their world views. Both famous and

Reinterprets Julius Caesar not as an autocrat seeking to overthrow the Roman Republic, but as an unusually successful political leader.

Arguably the most formidable of powers the world has ever seen, the Roman Empire in its prime stretched from Spain to Iraq and from Germany to Egypt, encompassi

In this highly-illustrated book, Mary T. Boatwright examines five of the peoples incorporated into the Roman world from the Republican through the Imperial peri

In the Roman republic, only the People could pass laws, only the People could elect politicians to office, and the very word republica meant 'the People's busin