Rubicon (signed edition)

About the Author

Tom Holland is one of Britain’s foremost writers on the ancient world. He is the author of Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic (2003; Folio 2016); Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom (2008); Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West (2005; Folio 2018); In the Shadow of the Sword (2012); Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar (2015; Folio 2021), and Athelstan: The Making of England (2016). Persian Fire won the Anglo-Hellenic League’s Runciman Award, and Rubicon was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and won the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History. Holland has also published a translation of Herodotus’ Histories (2013) and has adapted Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides and Virgil for BBC Radio. In 2007, he was the winner of the Classical Association prize, awarded to ‘the individual who has done most to promote the study of the language, literature and civilisation of Ancient Greece and Rome’ and he is co-host of the extraordinarily popular podcast The Rest Is History.