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3	->''"Da Qin [Rome] has more than four hundred smaller cities and towns. It extends several thousand'' li ''in all directions. The king has his capital close to the mouth of a river. [...] The ruler of this country is not permanent. When disasters result from unusual phenomena, they unceremoniously replace him, installing a virtuous man as king, and release the old king, who does not dare show resentment. The common people are tall and virtuous like the Chinese, but wear'' hu ''[Western] clothes. [...] There are no bandits or thieves, but there are fierce tigers and lions that kill those travelling on the route. If you are not in a group, you cannot get through."''
4	-->-- '''Gan Ying''', prospective Chinese ambassador to Rome[[note]]He turned back after reaching the Mediterranean, having been warned that the crossing was dangerous[[/note]], c. 97 A.D., providing a fanciful account based on stories from Parthian sailors.
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6	A civilization of the ancient world born in the UsefulNotes/{{Ital\|y}}ian peninsula and spanning large parts of UsefulNotes/{{Europe}} at its peak, home of temples with even ''bigger'' columns, and brutal 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 {{gladiator\|Games}}s, [[TheCaligula mad emperors]] and elaborately coiffed women with slinky, see-thru ''stolas''. A time when Myth/ClassicalMythology was SeriousBusiness for the pious. Expect to see a lion eating a Christian or two.
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8	UsefulNotes/TheRomanRepublic is less often depicted in fiction, except for the bit right at the end from UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar's conquests in the Gauls, affair with UsefulNotes/CleopatraVII and assassination to the transition into UsefulNotes/TheRomanEmpire by UsefulNotes/{{Augustus}} (although occasionally you will see fiction set against the earlier struggle with Carthage or, more often, the slave revolt of Spartacus). The even earlier [[UsefulNotes/TheRomanKingdom Roman Kingdom]] is all but forgotten aside from the founding myth of Romulus and Remus (though this era has been featured quite a bit in {{Italian media}}, for understandable reasons) and occasionally its downfall with the Rape of Lucretia. It's also pretty rare to see any fictional works set in the Eastern Roman Empire of Late Antiquity, which later evolved into the UsefulNotes/ByzantineEmpire in TheMiddleAges.
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10	Roman architecture featured much more bricks than marble, but in the intervening centuries most of the bricks either crumbled, collapsed or were just stolen to make other buildings while those useless marble blocks and columns were left pretty much alone, so in Hollywood movies you're now treated to the sight of Imperial Rome made of shiny, gleaming travertino marble, with little or no brick houses to be seen.
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12	SwordAndSandal works may feature a FantasyCounterpartCulture. May overlap with BibleTimes. See AncientGrome for unwitting crossovers with UsefulNotes/AncientGreece.
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14	[[folder:Related Pages]]
15	[[index]]
16	* UsefulNotes/{{Etruscans}}
17	* UsefulNotes/TheRomanKingdom
18	** UsefulNotes/{{Romulus}}
19	** UsefulNotes/NumaPompilius
20	** UsefulNotes/TullusHostilius
21	** UsefulNotes/AncusMarcius
22	** UsefulNotes/TarquiniusPriscus
23	** UsefulNotes/SabineWars [[note]]continued well into the Roman Republic[[/note]]
24	** UsefulNotes/ServiusTullius
25	** UsefulNotes/TarquiniusSuperbus
26	** UsefulNotes/TulliaMinor
27	** UsefulNotes/TitusTatius
28	** UsefulNotes/{{Lucretia}}
29	* UsefulNotes/TheRomanRepublic
30	** UsefulNotes/PunicWars
31	** UsefulNotes/LusitanianWars
32	** UsefulNotes/CeltiberianWars
33	** UsefulNotes/GermanicWars [[note]]continued well into the Roman Empire[[/note]]
34	** UsefulNotes/MarkAntony
35	** UsefulNotes/MarcusJuniusBrutus
36	** UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar
37	** Creator/{{Catullus}}
38	** Creator/{{Cicero}}
39	** UsefulNotes/MarcusLiciniusCrassus
40	** Creator/{{Plautus}}
41	** UsefulNotes/PompeyTheGreat
42	** Creator/{{Virgil}}
43	* UsefulNotes/TheRomanEmpire
44	** UsefulNotes/{{Augustus}}
45	** UsefulNotes/{{Tiberius}}
46	** UsefulNotes/{{Caligula}}
47	** UsefulNotes/{{Christianity}}
48	** UsefulNotes/{{Claudius}}
49	** Creator/{{Epictetus}}
50	** UsefulNotes/JewishRevolts
51	** UsefulNotes/{{Hadrian}}
52	** Creator/{{Horace}}
53	** Creator/{{Juvenal}}
54	** UsefulNotes/MarcusAurelius
55	** UsefulNotes/{{Nero}}
56	** Creator/{{Ovid}}
57	** Creator/{{Seneca}}
58	** UsefulNotes/TheodosiusI
59	** UsefulNotes/{{Trajan}}
60	** UseFulNotes/{{Vespasian}}
61	* UsefulNotes/TheGloryThatWasRome
62	[[/index]]
63	[[/folder]]
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65	[[folder:Popular tropes of this time period]]
66	[[index]]
67	* AndroclesLion
68	* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: People still debate about figures such as UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar, UsefulNotes/{{Romulus}}, UsefulNotes/{{Augustus}}, UsefulNotes/MarcusJuniusBrutus and whether their actions were justified or whether they should be seen as heroic people or evil tyrants centuries after they walked the earth.
69	* BreadAndCircuses: The TropeCodifier
70	* TheCaligula: An insane and unhinged character similar to Caligula, the TropeNamer.
71	* CanisLatinicus: Many works set in Ancient Rome will frequently use made-up Latin phrases.
72	* ChariotRace
73	* ColourCodedPatrician: Only the patrician class could wear Tyrian Purple.
74	* CondemnedContestant
75	* TheDictatorship: The TropeMaker. Rome would often elect a dictator in times of great turmoil or emergency, though it's also subversion since it was only intended to be temporary until the chaotic situation subsided.
76	* TheEmperor: Every work set during or after the reign of Augustus.
77	* TheEmpire: After the ascension of Augustus as ''Imperator'', Rome became the largest and most influential empire in European history (aside from [[UsefulNotes/TheBritishEmpire the British Empire]]).
78	* EvilMatriarch: Shows up a lot in the surviving documents of Rome.
79	* FedToTheBeast: The aforementioned Roman habit of throwing people to the lions.
80	* FemmeFatale: Ancient Rome was filled with this, such as UsefulNotes/TulliaMinor, Agrippina The Younger, Livia Drusilla, Julia Maesa. Anytime there's a women that's the wife or mother of a famous ruler, expect them to be manipulative to the men around them and to possibly use cruel methods.
81	* FinishHim
82	* GladiatorGames: The TropeMaker.
83	** GladiatorRevolt
84	* MadeASlave: Happens frequently with non-Italic/non-Roman peoples subjugated by the Empire.
85	* PraetorianGuard
86	* PurpleIsPowerful: The patrician class were the only Roman citizens that could use the color purple. It later became the standard color of the Eastern Roman Empire.
87	* TheQueensLatin: Almost every fictional depiction of the Romans will have British accents.
88	* RedIsHeroic: Roman legions would have red dye in their armor as well as their shields and banners.
89	* TheRepublic: The most-well known and famous example in both RealLife and fiction.
90	* SlaveMarket
91	[[/index]]
92	[[/folder]]
93
94	!!Works set in this time period:
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96	[[foldercontrol]]
97
98	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
99	* ''Ad Astra: Scipio to Hannibal'' is a manga set primarily during the Second Punic War, with the prologue showing the end of the first one, and alternates between [=POVs=] of the titular characters.
100	* ''Anime/{{Daimos}}'' is set in the year 1995, but features FirstContact with the Baam-seijin, a planet of literal SpaceRomans. They wear gladiator armour, fight in colosseums, ride chariots and dress in SwordAndSandal. [[spoiler: Not to mention, the assassination of King Leon has parallels to that of Julius Ceasar's, being betrayed by someone he trusted the most]].
101	* ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' has a character who is the personification of Ancient Rome, affectionately referred to as "Grandpa Rome" by his descendant Italy. While most of the series is set in more modern times, there are [[http://www.hetarchive.net/scanlations/nonlinear.php?blog-entry-1136 some comics]] that are from this time period.
102	* ''Manga/ThermaeRomae'', set in the reign of Emperor Hadrian (and in 21st century Japan).
103	[[/folder]]
104
105	[[folder:Comic Books]]
106	* ''ComicBook/{{Alix}}''
107	* ''ComicBook/{{Aquila}}''
108	* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}''
109	* ''ComicBook/{{Murena}}''
110	* ''ComicStrip/{{Nero}}'': In "De Rode Keizer" Nero and his friends travel back to the era of Emperor UsefulNotes/{{Nero}}, which of course leads to a lot of confusion.
111	* ''Nero Fox'' (the "Jive-Jumping Emperor of Ancient Rome"), a [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] Creator/DCComics FunnyAnimal character who was emperor of ancient Rome. The "jive-jumping" part referred to his anachronistic playing of 40s-era jazz/swing music on his "gobble pipe" (saxophone). His era's later revisited in The80s by a time-traveling ComicBook/CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew.
112	* ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'' #30, "August", in which Morpheus visits the Emperor Augustus.
113	* ''ComicBook/SuskeEnWiske'': The stories "Het Geheim van de Gladiatoren" and "De Nerveuze Nerviërs" take place in this time period.
114	[[/folder]]
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116	[[folder:Films - Animation]]
117	* ''Franchise/{{Asterix}}'' animated films:
118	** ''WesternAnimation/AsterixTheGaul''
119	** ''WesternAnimation/AsterixAndCleopatra''
120	** ''WesternAnimation/TheTwelveTasksOfAsterix''
121	** ''WesternAnimation/AsterixVersusCaesar''
122	** ''WesternAnimation/AsterixInBritain''
123	** ''WesternAnimation/AsterixAndTheBigFight''
124	** ''WesternAnimation/AsterixConquersAmerica''
125	** ''WesternAnimation/AsterixAndTheVikings''
126	** ''WesternAnimation/AsterixTheMansionsOfTheGods''
127	** ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfTheMagicPotion''
128	[[/folder]]
129
130	[[folder:Films - Live-Action]]
131	* ''Film/AndroclesAndTheLion''
132	* ''Film/{{Agora}}''
133	* ''Franchise/{{Asterix}}''
134	** ''Film/AsterixAndObelixTakeOnCaesar''
135	** ''Film/AsterixAndObelixMissionCleopatra''
136	** ''Film/AsterixAtTheOlympicGames''
137	** ''Film/AsterixAndObelixGodSaveBritannia''
138	** ''Film/AsterixAndObelixTheMiddleKingdom''
139	* ''Film/{{Barabbas}}''
140	* ''Film/BenHur1907''
141	* ''Film/BenHur1925''
142	* ''Film/BenHur1959''
143	* ''Film/BenHur2016''
144	* ''Film/BrennusEnemyOfRome''
145	* ''Film/{{Cabiria}}''
146	* ''Film/CaesarAndCleopatra''
147	* ''Film/CarryOnCleo''
148	* ''Film/{{Centurion}}''
149	* ''Film/Cleopatra1934''
150	* ''Film/{{Cleopatra}}''
151	* ''Film/DeuxHeuresMoinsLeQuartAvantJesusChrist''
152	* ''Film/TheEagle2011''
153	* ''Film/TheFallOfTheRomanEmpire''
154	* ''Film/{{Gladiator}}''
155	* ''Film/HistoryOfTheWorldPartI'' (second segment)
156	* ''Film/JuliusCaesar1953''
157	* ''Film/JuliusCaesar1970''
158	* ''Film/KaamelottPremierVolet'' [[note]]Flashbacks of Arthur's youth (as "Arturus") when he trained to join the Roman legions.[[/note]]
159	* ''Film/KingArthur2004''
160	* ''Film/TheLastLegion''
161	* ''Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian''
162	* ''Film/ThePassionOfTheChrist''
163	* ''Film/PaulApostleOfChrist''
164	* ''Film/{{Pompeii}}''
165	* ''Film/TheRobe''
166	** ''Film/DemetriusAndTheGladiators''
167	* ''Film/FelliniSatyricon''
168	* ''Film/TheSignOfTheCross''
169	* ''Film/TheSilverChalice''
170	* ''Film/{{Spartacus}}''
171	[[/folder]]
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173	[[folder:Literature]]
174	* ''Literature/{{Pharsalia}}'' (61-65) by Lucan. It is an epic poem which covers the Roman Civil Wars.
175	* ''The Alexander Inheritance'' by Eric Flint is a time travel novel taking place in Ancient Greece and Rome
176	* ''The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'' (1776-1789) by Edward Gibbon's is considered the definitive, most exhaustively researched book ever written on the topic of history. It is a massive tome which took the better part of Gibbon's life to complete, as virtually every sentence is cited. Famously ignores all emperors from Augustus to Nerva (27 BC-98 AD). Starts with the rise of Trajan in 98 AD and continues through the entire history of UsefulNotes/TheRomanEmpire, and the UsefulNotes/ByzantineEmpire. A lengthy legacy section follows events into UsefulNotes/TheRenaissance.
177	* ''The Last Days of Pompeii'' (1834) by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Adapted to film many times.
178	* ''Römische Geschichte'' (''Roman History'', 1854-1856) by Theodor Mommsen is a detailed work on the history of UsefulNotes/TheRomanRepublic. Followed by the sequel ''The Provinces of the Roman Empire'' (1885-1886) which is also very detailed. The primary work earned the author the 1902 UsefulNotes/NobelPrizeInLiterature. Mommsen had also prepared another sequel, covering UsefulNotes/TheRomanEmpire, but never finished it. His notes and plans for the incomplete work were first published in 1992.
179	* ''Literature/QuoVadis?'' (1896) by Henryk Sienkiewicz.
180	* ''The Silver Chalice'' (1952) by Thomas B. Costain. Made into an infamously bad movie in 1954.
181	* ''Literature/DetectivesInTogas'' (1953) by Henry Winterfeld.
182	* ''Literature/TheEagleOfTheNinth'' (1954), ''Literature/{{Outcast}}'' (1955), ''[[Literature/TheDolphinRing The Silver Branch]]'' (1957), ''The Lantern Bearers'' (1959), ''Literature/TheMarkOfTheHorseLord'' (1965), ''Literature/SongForADarkQueen'' (1977), ''Literature/FrontierWolf'' (1980), and a number of shorter works by Creator/RosemarySutcliff.
183	* ''Literature/TheLastLegion'' is set in 476 CE, the conventional date of the Fall of the Western Empire. The deposed [[AChildShallLeadThem boy emperor]] Romulus Augustus is one of the main characters, with the others being the former legionaries who have a plan to rescue him from his prison in Capri.
184	* ''Literature/EcceRomani'', the Latin textbook. First published in 1971.
185	* ''Literature/CambridgeLatinCourse'', the UK's counterpart to ''Ecce Romani''.
186	* ''Literature/LinguaLatinaPerSeIllustrata'', another Latin textbook. The main volume was first published (under a different title) in 1955, and revised in 1983 and 1991.
187	* The ''Literature/MarcusDidiusFalco'' series of detective novels. Started in 1989.
188	* ''Literature/MastersOfRome'' series by Colleen [=McCullough's=] . Started in 1990.
189	* The ''Literature/{{Roma Sub Rosa}}'' series by Steven Saylor. Started in 1991.
190	* ''Literature/TimeScout'' spends a lot of time in Ancient Rome. The series started in 1995.
191	* ''Literature/TheRomanMysteries'' by Caroline Lawrence. Started in 2001.
192	* ''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.
193	* Literature/ToBringTheLight is an alternate history in the other direction - someone from a future Rome is brought to bring about the founding of Rome.
194	* ''Literature/{{Romanitas}}'' by Sophia [=McDougall=] is another alternate timeline diverging with the success of Pertinax as Caesar after Commodus' death.
195	* ''Literature/TheLightBearer'' by Donna Gillespie follows the son of a Roman nobleman and a woman from a Germanic tribe.
196	* ''Literature/IClaudius'' and ''Claudius the God'' by Robert Graves.
197	* ''Literature/TheMarkOfTheLion'' trilogy by Francine Rivers, set circa A.D. 70. Published in the 1990s.
198	* ''Literature/{{Imperium}}'', Robert Harris' trilogy chronicling the life of the lawyer and politician Creator/{{Cicero}}.
199	* ''Literature/{{Julian}}''
200	* Daluz from the novella ''Literature/ATasteOfHoney'' is a fantasy version of the Roman Empire, but with {{Physical God}}s and Terra-de-Luce as a parody of the city of Rome. Lucrio is a tricenturion in the Daluçan army and his fighting style and uniform sounds exactly like that of a roman legionare. The Daluçan also speak Latin.
201	* The poems of {{Creator/Catullus}}, including the infamous [[Literature/CatulliCarmen16 Carmen 16]].
202	* Creator/DavidGemmell's ''[[Literature/TheTroySaga Troy Saga]]'' features Aeneas, one of the legendary founders of the Roman people, as one of it's main character. With Rome being a young settlement he's founded as a colony with Odysseus that's occasionally referenced to.
203	* ''Literature/TheWolfDenTrilogy'' by Elodie Harper.
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206	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
207	* ''Series/AncientRomeTheRiseAndFallOfAnEmpire''
208	* ''Series/{{Barbarians}}'' (mostly set in remote Germania, but with some scenes in Rome proper)
209	* ''Series/BarbariansRising''
210	* ''Series/{{Britannia}}''
211	* ''Series/TheCaesars''
212	* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
213	** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E4TheRomans "The Romans"]] (obviously)
214	** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E2TheFiresOfPompeii "The Fires of Pompeii"]]
215	** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E12ThePandoricaOpens "The Pandorica Opens"]] (Roman Britain in this instance)
216	* ''Series/{{Hispania}}''
217	* A recurring era in ''Series/HorribleHistories'' where ''the first'' sketch of the entire show is set in Ancient Rome.
218	* ''Series/IClaudius'' (based on a novel by Robert Graves)
219	* ''Series/{{Kaamelott}}'' (King Arthur's youth in Rome in the sixth season, made using sets of HBO's ''Rome'')
220	* ''Series/{{Masada}}''
221	* ''Series/LaPetiteHistoireDeFrance'': The season about Vercingetorix's distant cousin in romanized Gaul.
222	* ''Series/{{Plebs}}'', a {{Britcom}} about a couple of plebeians trying to get by in Rome.
223	* ''Series/PompeiiTheLastDay''
224	* The docudrama series ''Roman Empire'' is set between the Republic and Imperial eras of Roman history.
225	* ''Series/TheRomanMysteries'' - The TV adaptation
226	* ''Series/{{Rome}}''
227	* ''Series/SpartacusBloodAndSand''
228	[[/folder]]
229
230	[[folder:Mythology & Religion]]
231	* The Christian [[Literature/TheBible New Testament]] was written entirely in, and is set almost entirely in, the Roman Empire in the 1st century A.D./C.E.
232	* The original context of the Myth/ArthurianLegend was set around this period specifically Roman Britain and the sub-Roman era respectively.
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234
235	[[folder:Pinball]]
236	* One of the eras in ''[[VideoGame/ProPinballTimeshock Pro Pinball: Timeshock!]]'' is named "Ancient Rome".
237	[[/folder]]
238
239	[[folder:Podcast]]
240	* Dan Carlin's ''Podcast/HardcoreHistory'' has covered the Ancient Romans several times throughout his series;
241	** ''Punic Nightmares'' covers Rome's wars with [[UsefulNotes/HannibalBarca Hannibal]] and Carthage during the UsefulNotes/PunicWars.
242	** ''Death Throes of the Republic'' looks at the collapse of the Roman Republic into political violence and CivilWar, starting with the Gracchi brothers in the 130s-120s B.C.E to the assassination of UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar.
243	** ''Romancing The Tribes'' and ''The Celtic Holocaust'' looks at UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar's Gallic Wars.
244	* Creator/MikeDuncan's ''Podcast/TheHistoryOfRome'' details the history of Rome from the legendary founding by Romulus to the deposition of Romulus Augustulus by Odoacer in 476.
245	* Several episodes of ''Podcast/TwilightHistories'' have taken place in alternate versions of Rome:
246	** “Cleopatra Caeser” is set in a world where Julius Caesar was not assassinated and lived to a ripe old age. He expanded Rome’s territory from Britain in the west to India in the east.
247	** “Rome Industrial” is an early episode set in a world where Rome experienced an industrial revolution, and then conquered almost all of the world.
248	** “The Winged Victory” has Rome fall into civil war, resulting in the lose of the Greek territories. By the time of the episode, they’re determined to reconquer Greece.
249	[[/folder]]
250
251	[[folder:Theatre]]
252	* Creator/WilliamShakespeare:
253	** ''Theatre/AntonyAndCleopatra''
254	** ''Theatre/{{Coriolanus}}''
255	** ''Theatre/{{Cymbeline}}''
256	** ''Theatre/JuliusCaesar''
257	** ''Theatre/TitusAndronicus''
258	* ''Theatre/AndroclesAndTheLion''
259	* ''Theatre/AFunnyThingHappenedOnTheWayToTheForum''
260	[[/folder]]
261
262	[[folder:Theme Parks]]
263	* The "Festa Italia" area at [[Ride/BuschGardens Busch Gardens Williamsburg]] is entirely themed around Ancient Rome.
264	* Ride/EuropaPark has an arena with GladiatorGames shows and a hotel shaped like the Colosseum, Hotel Colosseo.
265	* The Ride/ParcAsterix in Plailly, France, features the cartoonish version of Rome from the ''Franchise/{{Asterix}}'' comics.
266	[[/folder]]
267
268	[[folder:Video Games]]
269	* ''[[VideoGame/AgeOfEmpiresI Age of Empires: Rise of Rome]]''
270	* ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOrigins'': While primarily set in [[AncientEgypt Ptolemaic Egypt]], Rome heavily factors into the story with Julius Caesar's romantic affair with Cleopatra as a significant subplot.
271	* ''VideoGame/{{Caesar}}''
272	* ''Videogame/CenturionDefenderOfRome''
273	* ''Videogame/ColosseumRoadtoFreedom''
274	* ''VideoGame/TheEternalCity''
275	* ''VideoGame/ExpeditionsRome'' opens in 74 BC, during the Third Mithridatic War, with you stepping in the shoes of a ''legatus legionis'' under the command of Consul Lucullus.
276	* ''VideoGame/GladiatorBegins''
277	* ''VideoGame/{{Imperivm}}''
278	* ''VideoGame/RyseSonOfRome''
279	* ''VideoGame/ShadowOfRome''
280	* ''VideoGame/SpartanTotalWarrior''
281	* ''VideoGame/TotalWar''
282	** ''VideoGame/RomeTotalWar''
283	** ''VideoGame/TotalWarRomeII''
284	** ''VideoGame/TotalWarAttila''
285	[[/folder]]
286
287	[[folder:Visual Novels]]
288	* ''VisualNovel/ACourtesanOfRome'', one of the stories in the mobile app ''VisualNovel/ChoicesStoriesYouPlay''
289	[[/folder]]
290
291	[[folder:Web Animation]]
292	* ''The WebAnimation/UnbiasedHistory of Rome'', documenting the Romans from their mythological beginnings, only from a comedically skewed perspective in spite of the name.
293	[[/folder]]
294
295	[[folder:Webcomics]]
296	* ''Webcomic/{{Deities}}'' has an arc set in Ancient Rome.
297	* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'': Grace has a dream set during the [[UsefulNotes/PunicWars Second Punic War]]. Where she's [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quintus_Fabius_Maximus_Verrucosus Fabius]]. And is trying to win the war via bake sales.
298	* ''Webcomic/TalesOfTheGalli'': Set in Rome circa 312 CE.
299	[[/folder]]
300
301	[[folder:Western Animation]]
302	* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Histeria}}'' episodes "A Blast From the Past" and "Return to Rome".
303	* ''WesternAnimation/IlEtaitUneFois'': Despite its name, the seventh episode "Pax Romana" actually takes place during the time of UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar and follows two Gallic prisoners being led from Alesia to Rome, where they are lauded during the GladiatorGames, build roads throughout their former homeland, and eventually serve a wealthy man whose wife and children's lives they save from a [[HeroicFireRescue house fire]]. The episode ends with Caesar's assassination... [[MoodWhiplash and]] [[AwayInAManger with the birth of Jesus forty-four years later]].
304	* ''Franchise/LooneyTunes'' short "Roman Legion-Hare", with Centurion General Yosemite Sam after WesternAnimation/BugsBunny.
305	* ''WesternAnimation/TheRomanHolidays'' by Creator/HannaBarbera
306	* ''WesternAnimation/ToucheTurtleAndDumDum'': "Et Tu, Touché" sees the two critter superheroes brought back in time to the days of the Roman Empire to help a badly besieged emperor.
307	[[/folder]]
308
309	[[folder:Multiple Media]]
310	* Ancient Rome has appeared a lot of times in the ''Literature/HorribleHistories'' franchise.
311	** Very prominent in [[Series/HorribleHistories the TV series]] where the first sketch of the entire show is about this era which was about a gladiator fight at a funeral and later an imagination spot about a school for gladiators; Caligula, Nero, and Elagabalus are very prominent in show and even have their own song parodying Michael Jackson's "Bad" with Commodus.
312	** It is also very prominent in the books where it is one of the few eras to have more than one book made such as Rotten Romans and Ruthless Romans as well as being prominent in the magazines Rotten Romans On The Rampage, Rotten Romans In Britain, and Even More Rotten Romans.
313	** An entire educational adventure video game theme on Ancient Rome was made on Wii, Nintendo DS and Windows and is narrated by Terry Deary, the author of the Horrible Histories book series. It is named after Deary's 2003 book Ruthless Romans, his second on the topic after 1999's Rotten Romans. In it, the player assumes the role of Rassimus, a young Dacian man that escaped during the peasant riots. Rassimus was captured by Lucius, leader of the fifth Roman Legion, sent there to suppress the Dacian strike. Rassimus later becomes under Lucius Gladius' control and begins training at the gladiator school of Rome to become the champion gladiator and acquire his freedom. The portions of the narrative which set up and progress the story are narrated by Deary, with "accompanying stills presented in comic-book fashion". The game is built up by 3D polygons "with flat features and textures in the style of the book illustrations" by Martin Brown.
314	** It's also the setting of the movie, where Atti, a Roman teenager, gets banished to Britain and gets captured by Orla, a Celtic teenager, but they get along, but to Atti's horror, when he is returned to his regiment, he finds himself pitted against Orla and her tribe at the Boudican revolt's Battle of Watling Street.
315	[[/folder]]
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