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Ancient Rome Books
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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 291 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.06 — 82,826 ratings — published 2015
I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
by (shelved 221 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.24 — 73,606 ratings — published 1934
The Twelve Caesars (Paperback)
by (shelved 184 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.03 — 22,997 ratings — published 121
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 181 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 3.87 — 144,593 ratings — published -19
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 161 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.23 — 27,920 ratings — published 2003
Meditations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 159 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.28 — 356,405 ratings — published 180
Imperium (Cicero, #1)
by (shelved 131 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.14 — 41,593 ratings — published 2006
The First Man in Rome (Masters of Rome, #1)
by (shelved 116 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.14 — 24,516 ratings — published 1990
Pompeii (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 3.88 — 54,169 ratings — published 2003
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.10 — 78,869 ratings — published 8
Caesar: Life of a Colossus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.24 — 13,360 ratings — published 2006
Memoirs of Hadrian (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.21 — 36,517 ratings — published 1951
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.02 — 15,542 ratings — published 1776
The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.25 — 16,063 ratings — published 2017
Augustus (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.26 — 20,465 ratings — published 1972
The Conquest of Gaul (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.02 — 13,689 ratings — published -50
Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina (Claudius, #2)
by (shelved 89 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.20 — 16,848 ratings — published 1934
The History of Rome, Books 1-5: The Early History of Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 3.96 — 9,924 ratings — published -29
Mistress of Rome (The Empress of Rome, #1)
by (shelved 87 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.02 — 31,416 ratings — published 2010
The Silver Pigs (Marcus Didius Falco, #1)
by (shelved 87 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 3.89 — 15,758 ratings — published 1989
Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 86 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.17 — 7,305 ratings — published 2015
The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.10 — 5,468 ratings — published 2008
Conspirata (Cicero, #2)
by (shelved 76 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.26 — 22,099 ratings — published 2009
Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,366 ratings — published 2006
Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 3.90 — 8,335 ratings — published 2001
The Annals of Imperial Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 3.99 — 9,350 ratings — published 116
Augustus: First Emperor of Rome (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.28 — 5,102 ratings — published 2014
Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.08 — 7,344 ratings — published 2023
Caesar's Women (Masters of Rome, #4)
by (shelved 66 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.29 — 7,790 ratings — published 1996
Roman Blood (Roma Sub Rosa, #1)
by (shelved 65 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 3.95 — 9,452 ratings — published 1991
The Grass Crown (Masters of Rome, #2)
by (shelved 63 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.34 — 13,329 ratings — published 1990
Roma (Roma, #1)
by (shelved 62 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 3.94 — 8,800 ratings — published 2007
Daughters of Rome (The Empress of Rome, #2)
by (shelved 60 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 3.97 — 13,031 ratings — published 2011
Medicus (Gaius Petreius Ruso, #1)
by (shelved 60 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 3.76 — 9,534 ratings — published 2006
Fortune's Favorites (Masters of Rome, #3)
by (shelved 60 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.40 — 8,784 ratings — published 1993
The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.16 — 4,373 ratings — published 2005
The Punic Wars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,551 ratings — published 2000
Quo Vadis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.01 — 42,401 ratings — published 1896
Letters from a Stoic (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.32 — 57,556 ratings — published 64
Cleopatra's Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.12 — 30,953 ratings — published 2009
Caesar (Masters of Rome, #5)
by (shelved 56 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.40 — 8,429 ratings — published 1997
A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.08 — 6,388 ratings — published 2020
The Gates of Rome (Emperor, #1)
by (shelved 56 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.20 — 30,939 ratings — published 2003
The October Horse (Masters of Rome #6)
by (shelved 56 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.34 — 6,618 ratings — published 2002
Antony and Cleopatra (Masters of Rome, #7)
by (shelved 55 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,300 ratings — published 2007
How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,233 ratings — published 2009
Julius Caesar (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 3.71 — 220,790 ratings — published 1599
The Roman Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,019 ratings — published 1939
The Rise of Rome: The Making of the World's Greatest Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,512 ratings — published 2012
The Rise of the Roman Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,874 ratings — published -170
“But still more responsible for their unawareness was the educational system in which they were reared. Ausonius and Sidonius and their friends were highly educated men and Gaul was famous for its schools and universities. The education which these gave consisted in the study of grammar and rhetoric, which was necessary alike for the civil service and for polite society; and it would be difficult to imagine an education more entirely out of touch with contemporary life, or less suited to inculcate the qualities which might have enabled men to deal with it. The fatal study of rhetoric, its links with reality long since severed, concentrated the whole attention of men of intellect on form rather than on matter. The things they learned in their schools had no relation to the things that were going on in the world outside and bred in them the fatal illusion that tomorrow would be as yesterday, that everything was the same, whereas everything was different.”
― Medieval People
― Medieval People
“A man leaves his great house because he's bored
With life at home, and suddenly returns,
Finding himself no happier abroad.
He rushes off to his villa driving like mad,
You'ld think he's going to a house on fire,
And yawns before he's put his foot inside,
Or falls asleep and seeks oblivion,
Or even rushes back to town again.
So each man flies from himself (vain hope, because
It clings to him the more closely against his will)
And hates himself because he is sick in mind
And does not know the cause of his disease.”
―
With life at home, and suddenly returns,
Finding himself no happier abroad.
He rushes off to his villa driving like mad,
You'ld think he's going to a house on fire,
And yawns before he's put his foot inside,
Or falls asleep and seeks oblivion,
Or even rushes back to town again.
So each man flies from himself (vain hope, because
It clings to him the more closely against his will)
And hates himself because he is sick in mind
And does not know the cause of his disease.”
―
