罗马的遗产是非常重要的，它和同样令人兴奋的希腊遗产（如哲学、悲剧、民主）一起，为我们的文化和教育注入了无与伦比的力量。 ——《泰晤士报文学增刊》（Times Literary Supplement） 罗马人丢失了一个帝国，却最终赢得了整个世界；从基因上了解西方，重新发现古典传统的价值。 理查德•詹金斯、A.T.格拉夫顿等14位世界顶尖古典学家，15个独家视角，共同探讨罗马如何形塑当今世界！ 政治源于希腊，戏剧模仿希腊，连哲学都是拾希腊人的牙慧？罗马只是文化上的二道贩子？“希腊罗马”并称，实在是历史的误会？关于罗马的一切，你全错了！ 罗马法昭示着平等与自由、公平与正义；罗马城、雕像艺术深刻地改变着人类心灵的丰盈；拉丁字母成为拉丁语留给世界最大最突出的宝贵遗产……我们都是希腊人，但我们也都是罗马人。《罗马的遗产》从法律、艺术、戏剧、诗歌等多个角度探讨古罗马留给现代世界的宝贵遗产，以及它如何形塑、改变现代生活，深富启发与洞见，堪称经典！

Machiavelli praised his military genius. European royalty sought out his secret elixir against poison. His life inspired Mozart's first opera, while for centuries poets and playwrights recited bloody, romantic tales of his victories, defeats, intrigues, concubines, and mysterious death. But until now no modern historian has recounted the full story of Mithradates, the ruthless king and visionary rebel who challenged the power of Rome in the first century BC. In this richly illustrated book - the first biography of Mithradates in fifty years - Adrienne Mayor combines a storyteller's gifts with the most recent archaeological and scientific discoveries to tell the tale of Mithradates as it has never been told before. "The Poison King" describes a life brimming with spectacle and excitement. Claiming Alexander the Great and Darius of Persia as ancestors, Mithradates inherited a wealthy Black Sea kingdom at age fourteen after his mother poisoned his father. He fled into exile and returned in triumph to become a ruler of superb intelligence and fierce ambition. Hailed as a savior by his followers and feared as a second Hannibal by his enemies, he envisioned a grand Eastern empire to rival Rome. After massacring eighty thousand Roman citizens in 88 BC, he seized Greece and modern-day Turkey. Fighting some of the most spectacular battles in ancient history, he dragged Rome into a long round of wars and threatened to invade Italy itself. His uncanny ability to elude capture and surge back after devastating losses unnerved the Romans, while his mastery of poisons allowed him to foil assassination attempts and eliminate rivals. "The Poison King" is a gripping account of one of Rome's most relentless but least understood foes.

《罗马人的故事7:臭名昭著的皇帝》内容简介：从美丽的卡普里岛到罗马大火，罗马四位臭名昭著的皇帝相继登场。作者一方面根据塔西佗的《编年史》、苏维托里乌斯的《罗马皇帝传》，一一展示罗马人眼中罗马皇帝的恶行；另一方面颠覆以往史家的说法，通过当时希腊人与犹太人的叙述，重新评断非罗马人眼中罗马皇帝的德政。短短五十四年间罗马皇帝几番更迭，是英雄创造的时代已远？或是暴君当道的世纪来临？

The mini-series follows the history of the Roman Empire, from approximately the death of Marcellus (24/23 BC) to Claudius' own death in 54 AD. As Claudius narrates his life, we witness Augustus' attempts to find an heir, often foiled by his wife Livia who wants her son Tiberius to become emperor. We also see the conspiracy of Sejanus, the infamous reign of Caligula, and Claudius' own troubled period of rule.

Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, the third Roman Emperor, is better known by another name: Caligula, a name synonymous with decadence, cruelty and madness. His reign was marked by excess, huge building projects, the largest gladiatorial battles Rome was ever to see – men and animals killed in their hundreds – conspiracies, assassination attempts and sexual scandal. Rufus as a young slave grows up far from the corruption of the imperial court. His master is a trainer of animals for the gladiatorial arena. Rufus discovers that he has a natural ability with animals, a talent for controlling and schooling them. It is at the arenas that Rufus meets his great friend Cupido, one of Rome’s greatest gladiators. It is his growing reputation as an animal trainer and his friendship with Cupido that attracts the cruel gaze of the Emperor. Caligula wants a keeper for the imperial elephant and Rufus is bought from his master and taken to the imperial palace. Life here is dictated by Caligula’s ever shifting moods. Caligula is as generous as he is cruel, he is a megalomaniac who declares himself a living god and simultaneously lives in constant fear of the plots against his life. But his paranoia is not misplaced, intrigue permeates his court, and Rufus and Cupido find themselves unwittingly placed at the centre of a conspiracy to assassinate the Emperor.