Lives of Famous Romans

The lives of 12 famous Romans are vividly portrayed here in biographical sketches set firmly in the context of their times. Included are Cicero, Caesar, Augustus, Vergil and Horace, Nero and Seneca, Trajan, Hadrian, Marcus Aurelius, Diocletian, and Constantine. Long known for her many biographies and histories, British historian and author Olivia Coolidge is a scrupulous researcher who has breathed life into dry texts and brought to ancient history the flesh and blood that will make it real for young people today. Here, each profile of a famous Roman resonates and changes when juxtaposed with the others so we see ancient Roman history from several different angles, and thereby receive a richly detailed picture. Each Roman is depicted in a line drawing.Coolidge, Olivia E. is the author of 'Lives of Famous Romans', published 1992 under ISBN 9780756779832 and ISBN 0756779839.