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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 527 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 87,698 ratings — published 2015
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 363 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 57,290 ratings — published -430
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 330 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 29,917 ratings — published 2003
History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 309 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.95 — 41,578 ratings — published -411
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 250 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.75 — 14,340 ratings — published 2014
The Twelve Caesars (Paperback)
by (shelved 244 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.03 — 23,584 ratings — published 121
Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 229 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 12,493 ratings — published 2005
The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 221 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 7,176 ratings — published 2010
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 217 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,285,544 ratings — published -800
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 206 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.94 — 537,124 ratings — published -750
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 192 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.02 — 15,770 ratings — published 1776
The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome (Hardcover)
by (shelved 187 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 6,878 ratings — published 2007
Caesar: Life of a Colossus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 180 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 13,848 ratings — published 2006
The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 174 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.24 — 16,858 ratings — published 2017
Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 168 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.89 — 3,523 ratings — published 2010
Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 165 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.95 — 4,944 ratings — published 2011
Cleopatra: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 156 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.73 — 125,668 ratings — published 2010
The Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 153 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 5,435 ratings — published 2003
The Punic Wars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 150 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,707 ratings — published 2000
Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 147 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 7,884 ratings — published 2015
The Conquest of Gaul (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.02 — 14,020 ratings — published -50
Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the War for Crown and Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 131 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,378 ratings — published 2011
The Persian Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 10,317 ratings — published -370
The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 4,449 ratings — published 2005
Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 123 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,842 ratings — published 2023
Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.91 — 8,531 ratings — published 2001
The History of Rome, Books 1-5: The Early History of Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.96 — 10,078 ratings — published -29
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,181,013 ratings — published 2011
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 116 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 148,908 ratings — published -19
The Campaigns of Alexander (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 5,531 ratings — published 150
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.76 — 124,218 ratings — published -1800
I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
by (shelved 106 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.24 — 75,424 ratings — published 1934
The Rise of Rome: The Making of the World's Greatest Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,617 ratings — published 2012
The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 5,709 ratings — published 2008
Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,481 ratings — published 2006
Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 104 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 8,142 ratings — published 2023
Meditations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.27 — 382,318 ratings — published 180
Augustus: First Emperor of Rome (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.28 — 5,418 ratings — published 2014
Persians: The Age of the Great Kings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,453 ratings — published 2022
Alexander the Great (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.33 — 6,492 ratings — published 2010
Alexander the Great (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 4,585 ratings — published 1962
How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,336 ratings — published 2009
The Annals of Imperial Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.99 — 9,503 ratings — published 116
The Rise of the Roman Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,934 ratings — published -170
The Classical World: An Epic History from Homer to Hadrian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,446 ratings — published 2005
A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 7,006 ratings — published 2020
Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,766 ratings — published 2020
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,190 ratings — published 2007
Pax Romana (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,435 ratings — published 2016
A War Like No Other: How the Athenians & Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,274 ratings — published 2005
“Now let us analyze the other two occupants of the inner Sanctuary or Oracle. They are the two cherubim who guard the Ark ... [and] "The Molten Sea" ...There are also two other elements of the Temple of which they are the image, and these other two units are the Great Pyramid and the Inner Court (The Molten Sea = 137 = MG = Two Cherubim = Great Pyramid = Inner Court. All four of these elements are reflections of each other, and they constitute the real key to understanding the mystery of the Temple of Solomon. ..."The Ark of the Covenant of the Lord" [is] a mirror image of "The Great Pyramid of the Emperor" ....”
― The English Cabalah, Vol. 1: The Mysteries of Pi
― The English Cabalah, Vol. 1: The Mysteries of Pi
“Much as Sade had done, Nietzsche valued the ancients for the pleasure they had taken in inflicting suffering; for knowing that punishment might be festive; for demonstrating that, 'in the days before mankind grew ashamed of its cruelty, before pessimists existed, life on earth was more cheerful than it is now'.”
― Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
― Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
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