Sextus Julius Frontinus and the Roman Empire: Author of Stratagems, Advisor to Emperors, Governor of Britain, Pacifier of Wales

“…a substantial study of an important life in the early Roman Empire in which Grainger has successfully shown how perhaps his subject’s greatest achievement was his ability to be on good terms with six different emperors (from Nero to Trajan) and thus exert significant influence throughout his career.” — Journal of Military History

Sextus Iulius Frontinus is best known as author of the military handbook Strategems but, in addition to writing this and other works (now lost), he also had a var...