Anthony Everitt is visiting professor in the visual and performing arts at Nottingham Trent University. He is the author of CICERO, AUGUSTUS, and HADRIAN AND THE TRIUMPH OF ROME.
An excellent guide... An elegant, swift and faultless introduction to the subject' * Spectator * '[An] engaging work that will captivate and inform from beginning to end' * Booklist * 'An agreeable primer in ancient history' -- Cleveland Plain Dealer A riveting, magisterial account... [Everitt] tells the tale in a way that will galvanise, inform and enlighten modern readers' * Belfast Newsletter * Lively and readable... Roman history has an uncanny ability to resonate with contemporary events' * Maclean's *