Rome: I, Claudius : From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54 by Robert Graves Masters of Rome series by Colleen McCullough 1. The First Man in Rome (1990); spanning the years 110-100 BCE 2. The Grass Crown (1991); spanning the years 97-86 BCE 3. Fortune's Favourites (1993); spanning the years 83-69 BCE 4. Caesar's Women (1997); spanning the years 67-59 BCE 5. Caesar (1998); spanning the years 54-48 BCE 6. The October Horse (2002); spanning the years 48-41 BCE 7. Antony and Cleopatra (2007); spanning the years 41-27 BCE Are We Rome?: The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America by Cullen Murphy: "Like Rome, America is a vast, multicultural state, burdened with an expensive and overstretched military, uneasy about its porous borders, with a messianic sense of global mission and a solipsistic tendency to misunderstand and belittle foreign cultures."

MOVIES: HBO miniseries: Rome BBC miniseries: I Claudius