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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 215 times as roman-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 78,577 ratings — published 2015
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 170 times as roman-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 26,132 ratings — published 2003
The Twelve Caesars (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as roman-history)
avg rating 4.02 — 22,367 ratings — published 121
The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as roman-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 15,283 ratings — published 2017
Caesar: Life of a Colossus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as roman-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 12,957 ratings — published 2006
Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 92 times as roman-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 6,723 ratings — published 2015
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as roman-history)
avg rating 4.02 — 15,330 ratings — published 1776
Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as roman-history)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,274 ratings — published 2006
Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as roman-history)
avg rating 3.90 — 8,210 ratings — published 2001
Augustus: First Emperor of Rome (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as roman-history)
avg rating 4.28 — 4,853 ratings — published 2014
The Rise of Rome: The Making of the World's Greatest Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as roman-history)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,400 ratings — published 2012
The Punic Wars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as roman-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,371 ratings — published 2000
How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as roman-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,137 ratings — published 2009
The Conquest of Gaul (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as roman-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 13,324 ratings — published -50
The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as roman-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 4,292 ratings — published 2005
Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as roman-history)
avg rating 3.95 — 4,612 ratings — published 2011
The History of Rome, Books 1-5: The Early History of Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as roman-history)
avg rating 3.96 — 9,787 ratings — published -29
The Annals of Imperial Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as roman-history)
avg rating 3.98 — 9,226 ratings — published 116
I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
by (shelved 44 times as roman-history)
avg rating 4.24 — 72,210 ratings — published 1934
Pax Romana (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as roman-history)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,238 ratings — published 2016
Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as roman-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,529 ratings — published 2023
Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as roman-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,508 ratings — published 2023
Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as roman-history)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,876 ratings — published 2009
Meditations (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as roman-history)
avg rating 4.28 — 329,252 ratings — published 180
A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as roman-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,819 ratings — published 2020
In the Name of Rome: The Men Who Won the Roman Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as roman-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,356 ratings — published 2003
The Rise of the Roman Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as roman-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,823 ratings — published -170
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as roman-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,426 ratings — published 1776
The History of Rome, Books 21-30: The War with Hannibal (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as roman-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,758 ratings — published -27
The Roman Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as roman-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,001 ratings — published 1939
The Civil War (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as roman-history)
avg rating 4.07 — 7,146 ratings — published -47
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as roman-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,921 ratings — published
Agrippina: Empress, Exile, Hustler, Whore (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 29 times as roman-history)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,826 ratings — published 2018
Scipio Africanus: Greater than Napoleon (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as roman-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,887 ratings — published 1926
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 28 times as roman-history)
avg rating 3.87 — 141,050 ratings — published -19
The Fall of the Roman Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as roman-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 4,134 ratings — published 100
The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as roman-history)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,092 ratings — published 2005
The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as roman-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 5,209 ratings — published 2008
The Agricola and The Germania (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as roman-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 6,008 ratings — published 98
A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as roman-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,013 ratings — published 2023
The Death of Caesar: The Story of History's Most Famous Assassination (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as roman-history)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,970 ratings — published 2015
The Ghosts of Cannae: Hannibal and the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as roman-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,757 ratings — published 2010
The Rise of Rome: From the Iron Age to the Punic Wars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as roman-history)
avg rating 4.00 — 265 ratings — published 2017
The Spartacus War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as roman-history)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,091 ratings — published 2009
Cleopatra: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as roman-history)
avg rating 3.73 — 122,148 ratings — published 2010
The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as roman-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,170 ratings — published 2022
The Later Roman Empire (A.D. 354-378)
by (shelved 22 times as roman-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,272 ratings — published 391
The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as roman-history)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,225 ratings — published 2009
Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as roman-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,431 ratings — published 2019
Hannibal: Rome's Greatest Enemy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as roman-history)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,087 ratings — published 2022
“Several bitter contemporary references to the pseudo-Emperor Eugenius had puzzled us. They asked how a man of such an appearance could attempt the pagan re-establishment. They asked it in horror, for there were certain horrifying aspects to this particular pagan reversion. It was not the old disinterested paganism; it was impassioned and very nearly diabolical in some of its manifestations.
The meaning of the references came clear with the examination of reproductions of coins and medallions of the pseudo-Emperor. Eugenius, who affected an old oriental style in hair and beard, had the face of Jesus Christ.”
― The Fall of Rome
The meaning of the references came clear with the examination of reproductions of coins and medallions of the pseudo-Emperor. Eugenius, who affected an old oriental style in hair and beard, had the face of Jesus Christ.”
― The Fall of Rome
“Rufinus was an orator and a lawyer, a master of civil administration and agenda. It was because of him that the Eastern Empire—Byzantium—became a bureaucracy for a thousand years; and lived on because its administration had become too intricate to die—though there are those who say that its death was concealed in a sea of paper for that one thousand years. The heritage of Rufinus was the first and longest-enduring paper Empire.
It is not accidental that in the tenure of Rufinus as Master of Offices, the duplication of written copies was first brought about. This was not on the order of carbon paper used at the instant of writing; it was wet-process copies made from a finished piece. The process is a detail, however; in the true sense Rufinus was the inventor of carbon copies. Shorthand was then five hundred years old, but Rufinus was the inventor of an improved form of shorthand.
It is believed that certain clerks of his appointing are still shuffling papers at the same desks. The paper world he set up was self-perpetuating.”
― The Fall of Rome
It is not accidental that in the tenure of Rufinus as Master of Offices, the duplication of written copies was first brought about. This was not on the order of carbon paper used at the instant of writing; it was wet-process copies made from a finished piece. The process is a detail, however; in the true sense Rufinus was the inventor of carbon copies. Shorthand was then five hundred years old, but Rufinus was the inventor of an improved form of shorthand.
It is believed that certain clerks of his appointing are still shuffling papers at the same desks. The paper world he set up was self-perpetuating.”
― The Fall of Rome
