How long does it take to read Roma?
The Novel of Ancient Rome
Roma by Steven Saylor takes about 10 hours 51 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 51 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2007. 592 pages, about 162,800 words.
22 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 18 hours 5 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 51 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 47 minutes |
The page count is the median across 13 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
From back cover: From its mythic beginnings as a campsite along a trade route to its emergence as the center of an extensive, powerful empire, ... Saylor's ... novel brings to vivid life the most famous city in the ancient world. Told through the tragedies and triumphs of the descendants of two families, Roma shows the events, the people, and the turning points in history that have come to symbolize ancient Rome in the modern imagination.
Subjects: american fiction, historical fiction, Fiction, History, Fiction, historical, Rome, fiction
