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* [[Finish Him!]]

* [[Gladiator Games]]

* [[The QueensQueen's Latin]]

=== {{examples|Works set in this time period areinclude: ===}}

* ''[[Alix (Comic Book)|Alix]]''

* ''[[Asterix (Comic Book)|Asterix]]''

* ''Nero Fox'' (the "Jive-Jumping Emperor of Ancient Rome"), a [[The Golden Age of Comic Books|Golden Age]] [[DC Comics]] [[Funny Animal]] character who was emperor of ancient Rome. The "jive-jumping" part referred to his anachronistic playing of 40s-era jazz/swing music on his "gobble pipe" (saxophone). His era's later revisited in [[The Eighties]] by a time-traveling [[Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew (Comic Book)|Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew]].

* ''[[Gladiator (Filmfilm)|Gladiator]]''

* ''[[Monty PythonsPython's Life of Brian (Film)|Monty Pythons Life of Brian]]''

* ''[[Ben -Hur]]'' (based on a novel by Lew Wallace)

* ''[[The Robe (Film)|The Robe]]'' (based on a novel by Lloyd C. Douglas)

* ''[[Demetrius and Thethe Gladiators]]'', sequel to ''[[The Robe (Film)|The Robe]]''

* ''[[Cleopatra (Film)|Cleopatra]]''

* ''[[Centurion (Film)|Centurion]]'', set among the Ninth Legion in Scotland, right when Hadrian pulled back.

* ''[[Pharsalia (Literature)|Pharsalia]]'' (61-65) by Lucan. It is an epic poem which covers the Roman Civil Wars.

* ''The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'' (1776-1789) by Edward Gibbon's is considered the definitive, most exhaustively researched book ever written on the topic of history. It is a massive tome which took the better part of Gibbon's life to complete, as virtually every sentence is cited. Famously ignores all emperors from Augustus to Nerva (27 BC-98 AD). Starts with the rise of Trajan in 98 AD and continues through the entire history of [[The Roman Empire]], and the [[Byzantine Empire]]. A lengthy legacy section follows events into [[The Renaissance]].

* ''Römische Geschichte'' (''Roman History'', 1854-1856) by Theodor Mommsen is a detailed work on the history of [[The Roman Republic]]. Followed by the sequel ''The Provinces of the Roman Empire'' (1885-1886) which is also very detailed. The primary work earned the author the 1902 Nobel Prize in literature. Mommsen had also prepared another sequel, covering [[The Roman Empire]], but never finished it. His notes and plans for the incomplete work were first published in 1992.

* ''[[Quo Vadis]]?'' (1896) by Henryk Sienkiewicz.

* ''The Silver Chalice'' (1952) by Thomas B. Costain. Made into an infamously bad movie in 1954.

* ''[[The Eagle of the Ninth (Literature)|The Eagle of the Ninth]]'' (1954) by [[Rosemary Sutcliff]]. Set in the Empire times in Britain.

* ''[[Ecce Romani]]'', the Latin textbook. First published in 1971.

* The ''[[Marcus Didius Falco]]'' series of detective novels. Started in 1989.

* ''[[Masters of Rome]]'' series by Colleen McCullough's . Started in 1990.

* The ''[[Roma Sub Rosa]]'' series by Steven Saylor. Started in 1991.

* ''[[Time Scout (Literature)|Time Scout]]'' spends a lot of time in Ancient Rome. The series started in 1995.

* ''[[The Roman Mysteries (Literature)|The Roman Mysteries]]'' by Caroline Lawrence. Started in 2001.

* ''[[Rome (TV)|Rome]]''

* ''[[Spartacus Blood and Sand (TV)|Spartacus: Blood and Sand]]''

* ''[[I Claudius (TV)|I, Claudius]]'' (based on a novel by Robert Graves)

* ''[[The Roman Mysteries (TV series)|The Roman Mysteries]]'' - The TV adaptation

* The ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' episodes ''The Romans'' [[Captain Obvious|obviously]], ''The Fires of Pompeii'' and ''The Pandorica Opens''

** ''[[Antony and Cleopatra (Theatre)|Antony and Cleopatra]]''

** ''[[Coriolanus (Theatre)|Coriolanus]]''

** ''[[Cymbeline (Theatre)|Cymbeline]]''

** ''[[Julius Caesar (Theatretheatre)|Julius Caesar]]''

** ''[[Titus Andronicus (Theatretheatre)|Titus Andronicus]]''

* ''[[A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Theatre)|A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum]]''

* ''[[Age of Empires I (Videovideo Gamegame)|Age of Empires: Rise of Rome]]''

* ''Rome: [[Total War (Video Game)|Total War]]''

* [[The Eternal City (Videovideo Gamegame)|The Eternal City]]

* ''[[The Roman Holidays (Animation)|The Roman Holidays]]'' by [[Hanna-Barbera]]

* The ''[[Histeria (Animation)|Histeria!]]'' episodes "A Blast From the Past" and "Return to Rome"