Roma

Description:

From back cover: From its mythic beginnings as a campsite along a trade route to its emergence as the center of an extensive, powerful empire, ... Saylor's ... novel brings to vivid life the most famous city in the ancient world. Told through the tragedies and triumphs of the descendants of two families, Roma shows the events, the people, and the turning points in history that have come to symbolize ancient Rome in the modern imagination.

subjects: american fiction,  historical fiction,  Fiction,  History,  Fiction, historical,  Rome, fiction,  Fiction, mystery & detective, general,  Fiction, historical, general,  Romans, nouvelles,  Histoire

People: Hercules (Roman mythology),  Romulus, King of Rome,  Remus (Twin of Romulus, King of Rome),  Coriolanus, Cnaeus Marcius,  Claudius, Appius,  Scipio, Africanus, ca. 236-183 B.C.,  Gracchus, Tiberius Sempronius,  Gracchus, Gaius Sempronius, 154-121 B.C.,  Julius Caesar,  Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 63 B.C.-14 A.D.

Places: Rome

Times: 1000 - 1 B.C.E.