Fiona Forsyth

I will never fully understand the Romans, and that is the challenge.

I have loved the ancient world since I read my first Greek myth, Theseus and the Minotaur. After reading Classics at Oxford, I taught at a boys’ public school for twenty-five years, but then my family moved to Qatar. There wasn’t much call for Latin teachers, so I wrote, and now I am back in the UK, all the questions I have asked myself about the Romans over the years are turning into novels.

I was once accused by a slightly indignant teenager of being in love with Cicero. This is not strictly true…