Viewers of HBO’s Rome may recall Irish actor Allen Leech playing Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa. In the TV series he is just entering his 20s and embarking on a dangerous adventure with his best friend, ...

This fictional memoir by Octavius’s right-hand man shows us bloodshed, betrayal and hectic jockeying for power If you’re one of those people who thinks about the Roman empire several times a week, ...

Robert Harris has returned to Rome with his new novel, Agrippa. It's a fictional autobiography of M. Vipsanius Agrippa, right-hand man of the Emperor Augustus, purportedly written in the days before ...

Marcus Agrippa, captured in a single bust, right, helped shape the Roman Empire (Image: Getty) Roman history is filled with famous men who did great deeds. But one stands out - Marcus Agrippa. He is ...

Agrippa: Robert Harris Robert Harris has a flair for creating dynamic fiction from the known facts and rumors of history.

Latin-literate keen-eyed tourists taking in Rome’s magnificent monuments might notice the inscription – ‘Marcus Agrippa, son of Lucius, in his third consulship, did it’ – engraved on the portico of ...

The year 63 BC was a busy one for the Roman republic, then in its final flowering. In the eternal city, the orator Cicero successfully thwarted the Catiline conspiracy, a coup attempt. On the frontier ...

Roman history is filled with famous men who did great deeds. But one stands out - Marcus Agrippa. He is important because, without him, Augustus would almost certainly not have been able to rule as ...

If you’re one of those people who thinks about the Roman empire several times a week, Robert Harris has you covered. He follows his trilogy of novels about the life of Cicero and his one-off about the ...