Rome


SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
The Twelve Caesars
The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic
Caesar: Life of a Colossus
The First Man in Rome (Masters of Rome, #1)
Meditations
The Aeneid
Imperium (Cicero, #1)
Augustus: First Emperor of Rome
Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar
Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician
Louisa May Alcott
Rome took all the vanity out of me, for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my foolish hopes in despair." "Why should you, with so much energy and talent?" "That's just why, because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a common-place dauber, so I don't intend to try anymore. ...more
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

Thomas Henry Huxley
The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and Rome—not by favour of, but in the teeth of, the fundamental teachings of early Christianity, to which science, art, and any serious occupation with the things of this world were alike despicable.
Thomas H. Huxley, Agnosticism and Christianity and Other Essays

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