The Roman History Reading Group meets on the first and third Wednesday of each month except August in our chat room (now at Skype IM, no video) from 9:30 to 11:00 p.m. U.S. EDT (UTC/GMT -05). This means that in Asia and Australia/Pacific it's daytime. Here is a world time clock to help you.

September 6 & 13 (because of Rosh Hashanah)

Dictator (Cicero III) by Robert Harris

October 4 & 18, November 1

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard

RECENT REVIEWS

Antony and Cleopatra

The Pericles Commission

Empire:The Novel of Imperial Rome

Three Pliny Mysteries

How to Mellify a Corpse: And Other Human Stories of Ancient Science & Superstition

Medicus: A Novel of the Roman Empire (mystery)

The Fight for Rome: A Gladiators of the Empire Novel

The Day of the Barbarians: The Battle That Led to the Fall of the Roman Empire

Justinian's Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe

Ancient Rome on Five Denarii a Day

A Coin for the Ferryman (mystery)

Saturnalia (mystery)

In at the Death (mystery)

Roma: The Novel of Ancient Rome

Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor

Roman Woodworking

Rome's Gothic Wars: From the Third Century to Alaric

The Last Roman: Romulus Augustulus and the Decline of the West

Belisarius: The First Shall Be Last

Caesar: Life of a Colossus