In Rome's Long Shadow

In Rome's Long Shadow is a magnificent book in the Roman sense – vast in scale, compelling and elegant in style, thoroughly eloquent, as instructive as it is enjoyable to read, with argumentative punch. A more relevant work in our very Roman times could hardly be imagined

Richard Whatmore

For centuries, the Roman Republic lived in the imaginations of its admirers through its stories, from the self-sacrifice of Lucretia to the assassination of Julius Caesar. Retelling those stories with verve and insight, Jamie Gianoutsos explains what they conveyed to Romans themselves, and to the historians, playwrights, poets and political thinkers of early modern England and revolutionary America, when republicanism offered a radical alternative to monarchical despotism

John Robertson

Given the fragility of modern democratic structures, In Rome's Long Shadow is a timely and insightful intervention. Gianoutsos engagingly reconstructs the myriad ways in which subsequent generations have repeatedly returned to classical Rome, finding both inspirational models and cautionary omens in equal measure

Clare Jackson

Jamie Gianoutsos vividly recaptures the excitement that the Roman republic inspired at successive nodal points of world history, and offers fresh ways of engaging with it today

David Norbrook