Panem & Circenses - 30 Fascinating Novels of Ancient Rome
Thirty Tales of Imperial Splendor, Gladiators, Pompeii, Intrigue, Conquest, and Early ChristianityBy Lew Wallace, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Henryk Sienkiewicz, George J. Whyte-Melville, Henry William Herbert, Frederick Rolfe, Georg Ebers, G. A. Henty, Edward Lucas White, J. G. Lockhart, H. Rider Haggard, Wilkie Collins, Harold MacGrath, Walter Pater, Ernst Eckstein, Felix Dahn, Alfred J. Church, James De Mille, William Henry Giles Kingston, John W. Graham, William Stearns Davis, Gustave Flaubert, Irving Bacheller, Nathan Gallizier, Talbot Mundy
Length434h 17m
About this audiobook
Panem & Circenses gathers thirty novels that imagine ancient Rome as spectacle, polity, battlefield, and moral laboratory. Spanning imperial intrigue, Christian persecution, military adventure, romance, archaeological reconstruction, and philosophical historical fiction, the volume displays the broad stylistic repertoire through which modern writers have revived classical antiquity. Its standout settings—from crowded arenas and imperial courts to provincial frontiers and early Christian communities—reveal Rome not as a static monument but as a contested social world. The contributors, drawn largely from nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British, American, French, German, Polish, and Italian literary cultures, represent the international flowering of the historical novel. Their varied approaches combine Victorian didacticism, Romantic color, realist observation, antiquarian scholarship, popular adventure, and fin-de-siècle aestheticism. Collectively, these voices register how Rome became a privileged imaginative site for debating empire, faith, citizenship, decadence, violence, and historical change in the modern age. This anthology is especially rewarding for readers seeking a capacious introduction to the literary afterlives of Rome. It offers the educational pleasure of comparing national traditions and narrative modes within one volume, while inviting reflection on how each novel transforms the ancient past for its own moment. Panem & Circenses fosters a rich dialogue between spectacle and conscience, historical evidence and invention, making it valuable for students, enthusiasts, and scholars alike.
Audiobook details
GenreHistorical Fiction, General Fiction
Length434 hrs 17 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Chronicles of Clovis (Annotated)
26The Gladiators
2Panem & Circenses - 30 Fascinating Novels of Ancient Rome
27Book I. Eros (pt. 1)
3Quo Vadis
28Book I. Eros (pt. 2)
4INTRODUCTORY
29Book I. Eros (pt. 3)
5Chapter I
30Book II. Anteros (pt. 1)
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6Chapter II
31Book II. Anteros (pt. 2)
7Chapter III
32Book II. Anteros (pt. 3)
8Chapter IV
33Book III. Moira (pt. 1)
9Chapter V
34Book III. Moira (pt. 2)
10Chapter VI
35Book III. Moira (pt. 3)
11Chapter VII
36Ben-Hur
12Chapter VIII
37BOOK FIRST (pt. 1)
13Chapter IX
38BOOK FIRST (pt. 2)
14Chapter X
39BOOK SECOND
15Chapter XI
40BOOK THIRD
16Chapter XII
41BOOK FOURTH (pt. 1)
17Chapter XIII
42BOOK FOURTH (pt. 2)
18Chapter XIV
43BOOK FIFTH (pt. 1)
19Chapter XV (pt. 1)
44BOOK FIFTH (pt. 2)
20Chapter XV (pt. 2)
45BOOK SIXTH
21Chapter XV (pt. 3)
46BOOK SEVENTH
22Chapter XV (pt. 4)
47BOOK EIGHTH (pt. 1)
23Chapter XV (pt. 5)
48BOOK EIGHTH (pt. 2)
24Chapter XV (pt. 6)
49The Last Days of Pompeii
25Chapter XV (pt. 7)
50BOOK THE FIRST (pt. 1)
Die größten historischen Romane: Amerikanische GeschichteLew Wallace, Mark Twain, Sinclair Lewis, Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Balduin Möllhausen, Charles Sealsfield, Ann Stephens, Friedrich Gerstäcker334h 44m$1 · $0.00
Durch die Seiten der Zeit: Meisterwerke amerikanischer historischer RomaneLew Wallace, Mark Twain, Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Balduin Möllhausen, Charles Sealsfield, Ann Stephens, Friedrich Gerstäcker334h 42m$1 · $0.00
Lew Wallace: Collected Works (Annotated)Lew Wallace80h 1m$2 · $0.00
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LEW WALLACE Premium Collection: Historical Novels, Poetry & Plays (Illustrated) (Annotated)Lew Wallace79h 56m$2 · $0.00
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