HISTORY OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE IN 21 WOMEN (PB)

Most of the time, Roman history runs on a well-worn path from Romulus and Remus to Attila the Hun. This is a new story about the Romans – one of Vestal Virgins and sex workers, business owners and poets, empresses and saints. Discover how entrepreneurial sex worker Hispala Faecenia uncovered a conspiracy of treason, human sacrifice and Bacchic orgies; get to know Pompeii’s savviest businesswoman and restauranteur; and join the inimitable Septimia Zenobia, who declared herself Empress, took over the Roman East and ran it herself.