📚 Ancient Rome

From a town on the Tiber to an empire over the Mediterranean: law, engineering and legions, and the long decline the whole West still studies.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject ancient rome in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The ceremonies of the Roman rite described	Adrian Fortescue	1919	22
	Hannibal: A History of the Art of War Among the Carthaginians and Romans Down to the Battle of ..	Theodore Ayrault Dodge	1891	19
	The Roman Republic	Isaac Asimov	1966	9
	Imperial Rome	Hadas, Moses	1965	8
	Res Gestae	Augustus Emperor of Rome	1883	7
	Roman art	Donald Emrys Strong	1976	7
	A companion to Latin studies	John Edwin Sandys	1913	6
	The Auxilia of the Roman Imperial Army	George Leonard Cheesman	1914	6
	Bulletin de correspondance hellénique	École française d'Athènes	1883	5
	Ancient Rome	Robert Payne	1970	5
	A history of Zoroastrianism	Mary Boyce	1975	5
	Emperor of Rome	Mary Beard	2023	5
	These were the Romans	Graham Tingay	1972	4
	Roman provincial coinage	A. M. Burnett	1998	4
	Livia	Barrett, Anthony	2002	4
	The Edinburgh companion to ancient Greece and Rome	Edward Bispham	2006	4
	Carthage	Sandra Bingham	2024	4
	Roman cook book	Frank Graham	1989	3
	Ancient Rome	Pamela Bradley	1990	3
	Indiana Jones Explores Ancient Rome (Indiana Jones Explores)	John Malam	1994	3
	A history of Rome	Christiansen, Erik	1995	3
	The Military Institutions Of The Romans	Flavius Vegetius Renatus	2007	3
	Rome's Third Samnite War, 298-290 BC	Mike Roberts	2020	3
	Plautus	T. H. M. Gellar-Goad	2021	3
	The Horizon book of ancient Rome	Robert Payne	1966	2
	The Founding Of Christendom	Warren H. Carroll	1985	2
	Classica (ovvero "Le cose della flotta") - Storia della marina di Roma, testimonianze dall'antichita'	Domenico Carro	1992	2
	Roman military equipment	M. C. Bishop	1993	2
	The Romans	Guhl, E.	1994	2
	TRAC 94	Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference (4th 1994 Durham)	1994	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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