A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome

In Ancient Rome, all the best stories have one thing in common: murder. Blending history, true crime, and sharp wit, Emma Southon investigates real-life killings from across the Roman Empire to reveal what violence, justice, and power meant to the people who lived there.

In A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Southon examines a trove of real-life homicides from Roman history to explore Roman culture, including how perpetrator, victim, and the act itself were regarded by ordinary ...