Ancient Rome In Fiction
The following article Fiction set in the Roman Empire lists some works set in the Middle and Late Roman Republic and in the (Western) Roman Empire but not those set in the city of Rome or Byzantium.
The article lists works only from the Middle Republic when the city-state of Rome began to expand over Italy.
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