The Poona of Peshwa
Blood Glutton
I am interested in the empire period much more than the republic. The republic is so rustic and ghetto. I'm more interested in cultural history than politics/law and military stuff, so the cosmopolitanism of the pax romana is really neat. I studied the baths, apartment buildings, plumbing, burial rites, religions (specifically the response to and eventual adoption of christianty)cooking, etc. I cooked up some shit from a roman cookbook for a classics course once, it was not very good.