Ancient World


The Odyssey
The Iliad
The Song of Achilles
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Circe
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
The Aeneid
The Histories
History of the Peloponnesian War
Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)
Metamorphoses
The Republic
Oedipus Rex  (The Theban Plays, #1)
The Twelve Caesars
I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
I, Claudius by Robert GravesThe First Man in Rome by Colleen McCulloughClaudius the God and His Wife Messalina by Robert GravesThe Twelve Caesars by SuetoniusPompeii by Robert   Harris
Best Books About Ancient Rome
738 books — 1,084 voters

A Thousand Ships by Natalie HaynesHorses of Fire by A.D. RhineThe Penelopiad by Margaret AtwoodNobody's Princess by Esther M. FriesnerNobody's Prize by Esther M. Friesner
Women of Troy Retellings
25 books — 15 voters
Charleston in the Age of the Pinckneys by George C. Rogers Jr.Following Caesar by John KeaheyIstanbul and the Civilization of the Ottoman Empire by Bernard LewisCairo by Gaston WietBukhara by Richard N. Frye
Centers of Civilization series
34 books — 3 voters

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When you fear nothing, you have nothing to fear
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