📚 The Roman Empire

The empire at its height and in its fall — administration, the army and the roads, and what a world without Rome looked like afterward.

Below are the 26 works carrying the subject roman empire 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
	Martyrology	Catholic Church	1499	43
	Séquestrés d'Altona	Jean-Paul Sartre	1961	18
	International Organizations	Kelly-Kate S. Pease	2011	15
	In the Shadow of the Sword	Tom Holland	2001	8
	A history of the Jewish people in the time of Jesus Christ	Emil Schürer	1891	5
	Der erste Korintherbrief	Weiss, Johannes	1910	4
	Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World	Richard J. A. Talbert	2000	4
	The storm before the storm	Duncan, Michael (Podcaster)	2017	4
	The prosopography of the later Roman Empire	A. H. M. Jones	1971	3
	SPQR	Mary Beard	2015	3
	Moneta	Gareth Harney	2024	3
	Die Reisen des Kaisers Hadrian	Julius Dürr	1881	2
	Ghirāva	Maheep Singh	1968	2
	Hadrian's Wall Reconstructed	Ronald Embleton	1981	2
	Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World	Richard J. A. Talbert	2000	2
	Galaterra	Tansu SALMAN	2010	2
	Rome	Ben Kane	2025	2
	The decline and fall of the Roman Empire	H. R. Trevor-Roper	1963	1
	On the Shortness of Life	Seneca the Younger	2004	1
	ANNO DOMINI IX.	Enno Dressler	2010	1
	Gladiator Vengence	Simon Scarrow	2014	1
	Islam Folklore Prophet Jesus (Isa) Son of Mary & The Bird from Clay	Muhammad Vandestra	2017	1
	São Jorge	Danilo Beyruth	2023	1
	Les Chroniques de Sundaris I	Maùve McWeil	2024	1
	Impi Yabomdabu Isethunjini (IsiZulu	J.C. Buthelezi	—	1
	Kvo vantis	Henryk Sienkiewicz	—	1

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

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