The Entertaining Ancient Rome

Conceived in the early 20th century as a textbook, this book has transformed into something else, ranking alongside the adventure novels of Walter Scott, Alexandre Dumas, and Mayne Reid. This is not surprising: it was worked on by brilliant scholars and popularizers of science, who had a superb command of the pen – the author of the legendary 'Myths of Ancient Greece' N. A. Kun, Professor A. M. Vasyutinsky from Lomonosov Moscow State University, medieval historians A. A. Fortunatov and A. K. Djivelgov, and others. Today, this book rightfully stands alongside Mikhail Gasparov's classical 'Entertaining Greece', although it was unjustly forgotten for many years.

Thanks to it, we will visit the temples of Roman gods, a military camp, the Senate and the forum, witness fierce battles, elections of officials, debates at the banquet table, triumphant processions, and secret gatherings.

Numerous illustrations by the finest masters, as well as canvases by European artists for whom the history of Ancient Rome was one of the most important sources of inspiration, will help us in this endeavor.