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Debut children's author Annelise Gray, She's previously published a history of the women of the Roman Empire and a crime novel set in the Roman Republic..

Annelise Freisenbruch was the researcher to Bettany Hughes on her critically acclaimed book Helen of Troy (Vintage).

My specialty was Latin literature – I wrote my PhD thesis on the letters between the emperor Marcus Aurelius and his tutor Fronto – but I had a reasonable grasp.

Debut children's author Annelise Gray, She's previously published a history of the women of the Roman Empire and a crime novel set in the Roman Republic.

We've come across some of these leaders' wives before, in operas or TV dramas such as I, Claudius and Rome: Augustus's scheming widow Livia, who aptly lent.

The year 35BC was the watershed,” writes Annelise Freisenbruch.

Annelise was born in Bermuda in 1977, and studied Classics at Newnham College, Cambridge, receiving her PhD in 2004. In 2010, her first book The First Ladies of Rome was published by Jonathan Cape in the UK and by Free Press in the United States (where it appeared as Caesars’ Wives: Sex, Power and Politicsin the Roman Empire).

Her first novel Rivals of the Republic was published in 2016 by Duckworth in the UK and by The Overlook Press in the United States.

A history of the wives, daughters, mothers and sisters of Rome’s emperors, The First Ladies of Romereceived widespread critical acclaim, including excellent reviews in the The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Times, The Mail on Sunday, The Independent, The Guardian and The Irish Times, and was named as a Non-Fiction Book of the Year in The Scotsman.

It has been translated into eight languages. Annelise was interviewed about the book on the BBC’s Woman’s Hour and has also appeared in an episode of PBS’s Sec