Why has ancient Rome remained such a powerful presence in British children’s lives? From Latin lessons and Roman soldiers to Horrible Histories, museum visits, Playmobil and video games, this book reveals how successive generations encounter a Rome continually reinvented for them, as changing ideas about empire, class, gender, diversity and childhood reshaped presentation of the Roman past. Drawing on an unprecedented range of educational, literary, visual and material evidence, including original interviews, archival research and a new database of children’s Roman culture, Lisa Maurice shows that the Rome presented to children tells us as much about modern Britain as it does about antiquity.