Fiction set in Ancient Rome

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

Books

 * I, Claudius and its sequel, Claudius the God, by Robert Graves. The classic dramatised account of the life of the emperor Claudius.
 * Count Belisarius, also by Graves
 * Augustus and Tiberius by Allan Massie.
 * The Masters of Rome series by Colleen McCullough.
 * A Song for Nero by Tom Holt.
 * Household Gods by Judith Tarr and Harry Turtledove
 * Caesar's Bicycle by John Barnes
 * Mémoires d'Hadrien by Marguerite Yourcenar
 * Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz
 * The Robe by Lloyd C. Douglas
 * Agent of Byzantium by Harry Turtledove
 * Pompeii by Robert Harris
 * Pro Caelio by Stephen Ciraolo
 * Eagle in the Snow by Wallace Breem
 * Julian by Gore Vidal
 * Avventura nel primo secolo by Paolo Monelli
 * I Am a Barbarian by Edgar Rice Burroughs
 * Lest Darkness Fall by L. Sprague de Camp
 * A. D. 62: Pompeii by Rebecca East
 * The Roman by Mika Waltari
 * The Emperor series by Conn Iggulden
 * The Door in the Wall, The Key, The Lock by Benita Kane Jaro
 * Roman Justice: SPQR: Too Roman To Handle, by Anne Hart
 * Last days of Pompeii by E.G.Bulwer-Lytton

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
 * The Publius Aurelius series by Danila Comastri Montanari
 * The Eagle series by Simon Scarrow
 * The Marcus Corvinus series by David Wishart

Comic books

 * Leading Comics - in the 1940s, a series called "Nero Fox" (about a funny animal fox named Nero Fox, who was emperor of Rome) was published as a backup series in this comic title.
 * Asterix series by René Goscinny (stories) and Albert Uderzo (illustrations)

Movies

 * Quo Vadis - U.S. 1951 director Mervyn LeRoy
 * 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
 * A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum - U.S. 1966 director Richard Lester
 * Satyricon - Italy 1970 director Federico Fellini
 * Caligula - U.S. 1979 director Tinto Brass
 * History of the World Part 1 - U.S. 1981 director Mel Brooks
 * Gladiator - U.S. 1999 director Ridley Scott
 * Quo Vadis - Polish/U.S. 2001 director Jerzy Kawalerowicz
 * Quo Vadis? (TV mini-series 1985) Director Franco Rossi

Plays

 * Joseph Addison - Cato
 * Albert Camus - Caligula
 * Henrik Ibsen - Emperor and Galilean
 * Ben Jonson - Sejanus, His Fall
 * Heinrich von Kleist - Die Hermannsschlacht
 * William Shakespeare - Titus Andronicus, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus
 * Stephen Sondheim - A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

Television

 * I, Claudius
 * Mystery Science Theater 3000 (part of season 8)
 * Up Pompeii!
 * The Roman Holidays
 * Rome