Emma Southon

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About The Author

Emma Southon has a PhD in ancient history from the University of Birmingham, UK. She is the author of Agrippina: The Most Extraordinary Woman of the Roman World; A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome; and A Rome of One’s Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire. Emma also cohosts the podcast History is Sexy, which has 800,000 lifetime listens. She has written for History Today, All About History, Historia, Literary Hub, and British Museum Magazine, and has appeared in documentaries on Channel Four TV and Netflix.

Books by Emma Southon

Not Built in a Day

How Slavery Made the Roman Empire

By Emma Southon
From acclaimed author of A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and historian Emma Southon, a groundbreaking history of Ancient Rome that explores how the empire was built, fueled, and shaped by its enslaved people.
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