There is a body of modern fiction set in ancient Rome. Titles include

Contents

1 Books 1.1 Detective fiction 2 Movies 3 Plays 4 Television

Books

• I, Claudius and its sequel, Claudius the God, by Robert Graves. The classic dramatised account of the life of the emperor Claudius.
• Augustus and Tiberius by Allan Massie .
• The First Man in Rome and sequels by Colleen McCullough.
• A Song for Nero by Tom Holt.
• Household Gods by Judith Tarr and Harry Turtledove
• Caesar's Bicycle by John Barnes
• Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz
• Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
• The Robe by Lloyd C. Douglas
• Pompeii by Robert Harris

Detective fiction

• The Roma Sub Rosa series by Steven Saylor, starts with Roman Blood.
• The Marcus Didius Falco series by Lindsey Davis.
• The SPQR series by John Maddox Roberts .
• The Germanicus Mosaic series by Rosemary Rowe - set in Roman Britain.
• The Claudia series by Marilyn Todd

Movies

• The Robe - U.S. 1953 director Henry Koster
• Demetrius and the Gladiators - U.S. 1954 director Delmer Daves (sequel to The Robe)
• Ben-Hur U.S. 1959
• Spartacus - U.S. 1960 director Stanley Kubrick
• Cleopatra - U.S. 1963 director Joseph L. Mankiewicz
• The Fall of the Roman Empire - U.S. 1964 director Anthony Mann
• Satyricon - Italy 1970 director Federico Fellini
• I, Claudius - U.K. 1976, BBC 13 hour miniseries
• Caligula - U.S. 1979 director Tinto Brass
• Gladiator - U.S. 1999 director Ridley Scott

Plays

• Joseph Addison
  • Cato
• William Shakespeare
  • Titus Andronicus
  • Julius Caesar
  • Antony and Cleopatra
  • Coriolanus

Television

• Up Pompeii!