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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 494 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 78,588 ratings — published 2015
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 335 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 55,034 ratings — published -430
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 314 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 26,138 ratings — published 2003
History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 288 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.94 — 40,131 ratings — published -411
The Twelve Caesars (Paperback)
by (shelved 232 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.02 — 22,367 ratings — published 121
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 225 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.74 — 12,250 ratings — published 2014
Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 209 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 11,437 ratings — published 2005
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 201 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 499,949 ratings — published -800
The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 200 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,333 ratings — published 2010
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 190 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,167,982 ratings — published -700
The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome (Hardcover)
by (shelved 181 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,476 ratings — published 2007
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 178 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.02 — 15,331 ratings — published 1776
Caesar: Life of a Colossus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 171 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 12,957 ratings — published 2006
The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 165 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 15,284 ratings — published 2017
Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 156 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,129 ratings — published 2010
Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 148 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.95 — 4,612 ratings — published 2011
Cleopatra: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 148 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.73 — 122,150 ratings — published 2010
The Punic Wars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 143 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,371 ratings — published 2000
Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 142 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 6,725 ratings — published 2015
The Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 138 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 5,258 ratings — published 2003
The Conquest of Gaul (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 13,326 ratings — published -50
The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 4,292 ratings — published 2005
The Persian Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,683 ratings — published -400
Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the War for Crown and Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,893 ratings — published 2011
Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.90 — 8,210 ratings — published 2001
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,906,394 ratings — published 2011
The History of Rome, Books 1-5: The Early History of Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.96 — 9,787 ratings — published -29
The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 5,209 ratings — published 2008
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 104 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.87 — 141,061 ratings — published -19
Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,274 ratings — published 2006
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.75 — 115,522 ratings — published -1200
The Campaigns of Alexander (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,273 ratings — published 150
I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
by (shelved 99 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.24 — 72,211 ratings — published 1934
Alexander the Great (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,209 ratings — published 1973
Augustus: First Emperor of Rome (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.28 — 4,855 ratings — published 2014
The Rise of Rome: The Making of the World's Greatest Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,400 ratings — published 2012
Meditations (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.28 — 329,308 ratings — published 180
The Rise of the Roman Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,823 ratings — published -170
Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,309 ratings — published 2023
How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,138 ratings — published 2009
Alexander the Great (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.33 — 5,637 ratings — published 2010
The Classical World: An Epic History from Homer to Hadrian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,347 ratings — published 2005
The Ghosts of Cannae: Hannibal and the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,757 ratings — published 2010
The Annals of Imperial Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.99 — 9,227 ratings — published 116
A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,820 ratings — published 2020
In the Name of Rome: The Men Who Won the Roman Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,356 ratings — published 2003
A War Like No Other: How the Athenians & Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,097 ratings — published 2005
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,840 ratings — published 2007
Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,531 ratings — published 2023
Pax Romana (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,239 ratings — published 2016
“I came to the Greeks early, and I found answers in them. Greece's great men let all their acts turn on the immortality of the soul. We don't really act as if we believed in the soul's immortality and that's why we are where we are today.”
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“Educated and ambitious, with their own forthright opinions, the women of the Garvey set did more to determine political direction than many councillors. Their involvement in public life and political machinations was such that the Shylonian ambassador was able to report, to his monarch, that the women of the Garvey clique were ‘politicians first, homemakers second.”
― Crowns Of Amara: The Return Of The Oracle
― Crowns Of Amara: The Return Of The Oracle
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