Influential figures of ancient Rome

Virgil and Livy: shapers of Rome's proud past

Cato and Cicero: fighting for traditional values

Augustus and Livia: rulers of a new Rome

Nero and Agrippina: the corruption and power

Pliny the Elder and Galen: the pursuit of knowledge

Hadrian and Antoninus: the good emperors

Constantine and Ambros: Christianizing the Empire.