Harry Sidebottom is a British author and historian, known for the best-selling historical novel series Warrior of Rome and Throne of the Caesars, and a Fellow in Ancient History at Oxford. His fiction—praised for blending scholarship with vivid storytelling—has sold over half a million copies worldwide. His acclaimed nonfiction includes The Mad Emperor: Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome (2022) and Those Who Are About To Die: Gladiators and the Roman Mind (2025), exploring ancient Rome’s politics, warfare, and culture.
Harry Sidebottom
Articles
Why Did the Roman Empire Last So Long?
Edward J. Watts’s history of the long Roman Empire is a traditional, top-down political narrative.
