Novels set in ancient Rome

Ancient Roman novel by Apuleius

historical novel written by Henryk Sienkiewicz

The Satyricon, Satyricon liber (The Book of Satyrlike Adventures), or Satyrica, is a Latin work of fiction believed to have been written by Gaius Petronius in the late 1st century AD, though the manuscript tradition identifies the author as Titus Petronius. The Satyricon is an example of Menippean satire, which is different from the formal verse satire of Juvenal or Horace. The work contains a mixture of prose and verse (commonly known as ); serious and comic elements; and erotic and decadent passages. As with The Golden Ass by Apuleius (also called the Metamorphoses), classical scholars often

Salammbô is an 1862 historical novel by Gustave Flaubert. It is set in Carthage immediately before and during the Mercenary Revolt (241–237 BCE). Flaubert's principal source was Book I of the Histories, written by the Greek historian Polybius. The novel was enormously popular when first published and jumpstarted a renewed interest in the history of the Roman Republic's conflict with the North African Phoenician outpost of Carthage.

1934 novel by Robert Graves

novel by Marguerite Yourcenar

1834 novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

novel by Pär Lagerkvist

1854 novel by Nicholas Patrick Stephen Wiseman

2008 novel by Ursula K. Le Guin

novel by Hermann Broch

1954 novel by Rosemary Sutcliff

children's books

2003 novel by Robert Harris

historical novel by Lloyd C. Douglas

novel by Thornton Wilder

2007 novel by Doris Lessing

1972 novel by John Edward Williams

novel by Robert Harris

1964 novel by Mika Waltari

1853 novel by the English writer Charles Kingsley

1895 novel by Dmitry Merezhkovsky

New Testament apocryphon

1959 novel by Mika Waltari