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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 497 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 79,641 ratings — published 2015
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 339 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 55,169 ratings — published -430
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 317 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 26,608 ratings — published 2003
History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 291 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.94 — 40,302 ratings — published -411
The Twelve Caesars (Paperback)
by (shelved 235 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.02 — 22,494 ratings — published 121
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 227 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.74 — 12,439 ratings — published 2014
Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 212 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 11,555 ratings — published 2005
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 204 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 503,528 ratings — published -800
The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 202 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,438 ratings — published 2010
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 192 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,175,943 ratings — published -700
The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome (Hardcover)
by (shelved 182 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,527 ratings — published 2007
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 177 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.02 — 15,382 ratings — published 1776
Caesar: Life of a Colossus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 171 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.24 — 13,052 ratings — published 2006
The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 166 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 15,484 ratings — published 2017
Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 157 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,201 ratings — published 2010
Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 153 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.95 — 4,659 ratings — published 2011
Cleopatra: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 150 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.73 — 122,523 ratings — published 2010
Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 144 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 6,887 ratings — published 2015
The Punic Wars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 143 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,424 ratings — published 2000
The Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 5,272 ratings — published 2003
The Conquest of Gaul (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 13,410 ratings — published -50
The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 4,311 ratings — published 2005
The Persian Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 9,765 ratings — published -400
Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the War for Crown and Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,994 ratings — published 2011
Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.90 — 8,240 ratings — published 2001
The History of Rome, Books 1-5: The Early History of Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.96 — 9,827 ratings — published -29
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,932,465 ratings — published 2011
The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 5,298 ratings — published 2008
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 105 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.87 — 141,934 ratings — published -19
The Campaigns of Alexander (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,304 ratings — published 150
Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,297 ratings — published 2006
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.75 — 116,905 ratings — published -2000
I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
by (shelved 99 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.24 — 72,571 ratings — published 1934
Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,369 ratings — published 2023
Augustus: First Emperor of Rome (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,922 ratings — published 2014
Alexander the Great (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,225 ratings — published 1973
The Rise of Rome: The Making of the World's Greatest Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,424 ratings — published 2012
Meditations (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.28 — 335,164 ratings — published 180
The Rise of the Roman Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,841 ratings — published -170
How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,158 ratings — published 2009
Alexander the Great (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.33 — 5,717 ratings — published 2010
The Classical World: An Epic History from Homer to Hadrian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,359 ratings — published 2005
The Annals of Imperial Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.99 — 9,261 ratings — published 116
The Ghosts of Cannae: Hannibal and the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,788 ratings — published 2010
A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,939 ratings — published 2020
Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,747 ratings — published 2023
In the Name of Rome: The Men Who Won the Roman Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,373 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 — 3,118 ratings — published 2005
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,900 ratings — published 2007
Pax Romana (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,266 ratings — published 2016
“We find the relevance of these answers today, for its arguments fundamentally shape the structure of the East vs. West, Liberals vs. Conservatives debate.”
― Metaphysics of Sound
― Metaphysics of Sound
“She did not approach Caesar wrapped in a carpet, she was not a seductress, she did not use her charm to persuade the men in her life to lose their judgement, and she did not die by the bite of an asp…Yet other important elements of her career have been bypassed in the post-antique recension: she was a Skilled naval commander, a published medical authority, and an expert royal administrator who was met with adulation throughout the eastern Mediterranean, perhaps seen by some as a messianic figure, the hope for a future Eastern Mediterranean free of Roman domination.”
― Cleopatra: A Biography
― Cleopatra: A Biography
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