The famous book by the German scholar and antiquity researcher Heinrich Wilhelm STOLL (1819–1890) “History of Ancient Rome in Biographies” was published in 1877 and immediately became extraordinarily popular among a wide range of readers.
Emperors and generals, dictators and consuls, pontiffs and tribunes, censors and praetors, orators and philosophers… Enemies and allies, treacherous plots and cunning schemes, civil wars and state reforms…
We present to you selected biographies of Roman political and military figures: Marius, Sulla, Sertorius, Lucullus, Pompey, Caesar, Octavian Augustus, Cicero.