Books in the Inside the ancient world series

Taylor takes Cicero as the focal point for examination of the last years of the Roman Republic, tracing the often dramatic and violent events from the harsh dictatorship of Sulla to Cicero's death in the massacres of Mark Antony and the 2nd Triumvirate. Evidence is taken largely from the speeches and surviving letters to his friend Atticus.

In Penelope to Poppaea, Anne Haward takes a close look at theposition of women in the classical world.