List of fiction set in ancient Rome
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
(Redirected from Fiction set in the Roman empire)
Related e |
Featured: |
- Beric the Briton: A Story of the Roman Invasion (1893) by G. A. Henty
- Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880) by Lew Wallace; famously made into a film starring Charlton Heston; set in the reign of Tiberius in Judaea, the Mediterranean, and Rome. Epilogues carry the story into the reign of Nero
- Beric the Briton, A Story of the Roman Invasion (1893) by G. A. Henty; the story of a Romanized Briton captured as a rebel and sent to Rome as a gladiator
- Quo Vadis (1895/1896), by Henryk Sienkiewicz set in the reign of Nero in 64 AD.
- The Death of the Gods. Julian the Apostate (Russian: Смерть богов. Юлиан Отступник) by Dmitry Merezhkovsky in 1895.The novel tells the story of Roman Emperor Julian who during his reign (361–363) was trying to restore the cult of Olympian gods in Rome, resisting the upcoming Christianity.
- A Struggle for Rome (1876), by Felix Dahn
- Arria Marcella (1852) by Théophile Gautier set in 79 AD in Pompeii
- Household Gods (1999), by Judith Tarr and Harry Turtledove set in the reign of Marcus Aurelius
[edit]
See also
Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "List of fiction set in ancient Rome" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.