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* ''Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian''

* ''QuoVadis?'' (''See'' {{Literature}}, ''below''.)

* ''QuoVadis?'' (1896) by Henryk Sienkiewicz.

* The ''{{Roma Sub Rosa}}'' series by Steven Saylor. Started in 1991.

* ToBringTheLight is an alternate history in the other direction - someone from a future Rome is brought to bring about the founding of Rome.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheRomanHolidays'' by HannaBarbera

* ''LooneyTunes'' short "Roman Legion-Hare", with Centurion General Yosemite Sam after WesternAnimation/BugsBunny.

A time when ClassicalMythology was SeriousBusiness for the pious. For more on the actual facts of the place, see UsefulNotes/TheRomanEmpire. UsefulNotes/TheRomanRepublic is [[TheGreatestHistoryNeverTold less often depicted]] in fiction, except for the bit right at the end when it ''became'' UsefulNotes/TheRomanEmpire (though occasionally you will see fiction set against the earlier struggle with Carthage or, more often, the slave revolt of Spartacus).

* ''{{Romanitas}}'' by Sophia [=McDougall=] is another alternate timeline diverging with the success of Pertinax as Caesar after Commodus' death.

* ''LooneyTunes'' short "Roman Legion-Hare", with Centurion General Yosemite Sam after BugsBunny.

Home of temples with even ''bigger'' columns, and brutal [[strike:spear]]sword-wielding Roman legionaries, all of whom had extremely clean, well-kept, elaborate armour and helmets (even down to the lowliest grunt soldier). Also home to [[GladiatorGames gladiators]], [[TheCaligula mad emperors]] and elaborately coiffed women with slinky, see-thru ''stolas''. Expect to see a lion eating a Christian or two.

* ''ShadowOfRome''

--'''Gan Ying''', prospective Chinese ambassador to Rome, c. 97 CE

* ''ComicStrip/{{Murena}}''

* ''{{Murena}}''

* ''Literature/LestDarknessFall'' by Creator/LSpragueDeCamp is an AlternateHistory sparked when a professor is teleported from the 20th century into ancient Rome and stops it from falling. ToBringTheLight is an alternate history in the other direction - someone from a future Rome is brought to bring about the founding of Rome.

* ''SpartanTotalWarrior''

* ''EcceRomani'', the Latin textbook. First published in 1971.

* ''Literature/TheEagleOfTheNinth'' (1954) by Creator/RosemarySutcliff. Set in the Empire times in Britain.

Home of temples with even ''bigger'' columns, and brutal [[strike:spear]]sword-wielding Roman legionaries, all of whom had extremely clean, well-kept, elaborate armour and helmets (even down to the lowliest grunt soldier). Also home to gladiators, mad emperors and elaborately coiffed women with slinky, see-thru ''stolas''. Expect to see a lion eating a Christian or two.

A time when ClassicalMythology was SeriousBusiness for the pious. For more on the actual facts of the place, see UsefulNotes/TheRomanEmpire. UsefulNotes/TheRomanRepublic is [[TheGreatestHistoryNeverTold less often depicted]] in fiction, except for the bit right at the end when it ''became'' UsefulNotes/TheRomanEmpire (though occasionally you will see fiction set against the earlier struggle with Carthage or the revolt of Spartacus).

* ''VideoGame/{{Caesar}}

* ''VideoGame/RyseSonOfRome''
* ''ShadowOfRome''
* ''SpartanTotalWarrior''
* ''Videogame/CenturionDefenderOfRome''
* VideoGame/{{The Eternal City}}

* ''VideoGame/Ryse:SonOfRome''

* ''VideoGame/RyseSonOfRome''

* ''CenturionDefenderOfRome''

* ''Literature/TheEagleOfTheNinth'' (1954) by RosemarySutcliff. Set in the Empire times in Britain.

* ''MastersOfRome'' series by Colleen [=McCullough's=] . Started in 1990.

* ''TheLastLegion'', also about the Ninth Legion.