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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 498 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 79,319 ratings — published 2015
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 339 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 55,085 ratings — published -430
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 316 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 26,484 ratings — published 2003
History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 291 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.94 — 40,250 ratings — published -411
The Twelve Caesars (Paperback)
by (shelved 235 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.02 — 22,469 ratings — published 121
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 225 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.74 — 12,385 ratings — published 2014
Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 211 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 11,518 ratings — published 2005
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 204 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 502,520 ratings — published -800
The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 201 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,408 ratings — published 2010
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 192 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,173,490 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 4.12 — 6,511 ratings — published 2007
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 178 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.02 — 15,373 ratings — published 1776
Caesar: Life of a Colossus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 172 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.24 — 13,023 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 — 15,419 ratings — published 2017
Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 156 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.89 — 3,189 ratings — published 2010
Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 151 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.95 — 4,642 ratings — published 2011
Cleopatra: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 149 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.73 — 122,401 ratings — published 2010
Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 144 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 6,840 ratings — published 2015
The Punic Wars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 144 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,410 ratings — published 2000
The Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 5,269 ratings — published 2003
The Conquest of Gaul (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 13,392 ratings — published -50
The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 4,305 ratings — published 2005
The Persian Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 9,744 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 — 2,975 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 — 8,235 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 — 9,814 ratings — published -29
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,924,303 ratings — published 2011
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 106 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.87 — 141,628 ratings — published -19
The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 5,283 ratings — published 2008
Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,285 ratings — published 2006
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.75 — 116,599 ratings — published -2000
The Campaigns of Alexander (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,296 ratings — published 150
I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
by (shelved 99 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.24 — 72,458 ratings — published 1934
Augustus: First Emperor of Rome (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,901 ratings — published 2014
Alexander the Great (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,221 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 — 3,414 ratings — published 2012
Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,353 ratings — published 2023
Meditations (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.28 — 333,345 ratings — published 180
The Rise of the Roman Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,838 ratings — published -170
How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,155 ratings — published 2009
The Classical World: An Epic History from Homer to Hadrian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.91 — 2,359 ratings — published 2005
Alexander the Great (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.33 — 5,696 ratings — published 2010
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 — 2,774 ratings — published 2010
The Annals of Imperial Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.99 — 9,255 ratings — published 116
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 — 5,909 ratings — published 2020
Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,690 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 — 2,366 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 — 3,109 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 — 3,882 ratings — published 2007
Pax Romana (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,252 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
“Hindu civilisation is the only great classical culture to survive intact from the ancient world, and at temples such as Madurai one can still catch glimpses of festivals and practices that were seen by Greek visitors to India long before the rise of ancient Rome. Indeed, it is only when you grasp the astonishing antiquity, and continuity, of Hinduism that you realise quite how miraculous is survival has been.”
― The Age of Kali: Indian Travels and Encounters
― The Age of Kali: Indian Travels and Encounters
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