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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 302 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.05 — 87,797 ratings — published 2015
I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
by (shelved 223 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.24 — 75,476 ratings — published 1934
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 189 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 3.88 — 148,999 ratings — published -19
The Twelve Caesars (Paperback)
by (shelved 185 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.03 — 23,598 ratings — published 121
Meditations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 163 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.27 — 382,814 ratings — published 180
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 163 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.23 — 29,965 ratings — published 2003
Imperium (Cicero, #1)
by (shelved 134 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.14 — 43,821 ratings — published 2006
The First Man in Rome (Masters of Rome, #1)
by (shelved 117 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.14 — 24,981 ratings — published 1990
Pompeii (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 3.89 — 56,965 ratings — published 2003
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.10 — 81,052 ratings — published 8
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.02 — 15,780 ratings — published 1776
Memoirs of Hadrian (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.21 — 38,506 ratings — published 1951
Caesar: Life of a Colossus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.25 — 13,863 ratings — published 2006
The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.24 — 16,871 ratings — published 2017
Augustus (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.26 — 22,538 ratings — published 1972
Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina (Claudius, #2)
by (shelved 91 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.19 — 17,342 ratings — published 1934
The History of Rome, Books 1-5: The Early History of Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 3.96 — 10,080 ratings — published -29
Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 89 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.17 — 7,899 ratings — published 2015
Mistress of Rome (The Empress of Rome, #1)
by (shelved 89 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.01 — 33,113 ratings — published 2010
The Conquest of Gaul (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.02 — 14,025 ratings — published -50
The Silver Pigs (Marcus Didius Falco, #1)
by (shelved 87 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 3.89 — 16,031 ratings — published 1989
The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.10 — 5,716 ratings — published 2008
Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,486 ratings — published 2006
The Annals of Imperial Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 3.99 — 9,504 ratings — published 116
Conspirata (Cicero, #2)
by (shelved 75 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.26 — 23,275 ratings — published 2009
Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 3.91 — 8,537 ratings — published 2001
Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.08 — 8,153 ratings — published 2023
Augustus: First Emperor of Rome (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.28 — 5,422 ratings — published 2014
Caesar's Women (Masters of Rome, #4)
by (shelved 67 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.29 — 7,928 ratings — published 1996
Roman Blood (Roma Sub Rosa, #1)
by (shelved 65 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 3.95 — 9,604 ratings — published 1991
The Grass Crown (Masters of Rome, #2)
by (shelved 63 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.34 — 13,605 ratings — published 1990
Fortune's Favorites (Masters of Rome, #3)
by (shelved 62 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.40 — 8,951 ratings — published 1993
Quo Vadis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.02 — 43,476 ratings — published 1896
Medicus (Gaius Petreius Ruso, #1)
by (shelved 61 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 3.77 — 9,674 ratings — published 2006
Roma (Roma, #1)
by (shelved 61 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 3.94 — 8,993 ratings — published 2007
Letters from a Stoic (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.32 — 61,487 ratings — published 64
The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.16 — 4,452 ratings — published 2005
The Punic Wars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,713 ratings — published 2000
Daughters of Rome (The Empress of Rome, #2)
by (shelved 60 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 3.96 — 13,634 ratings — published 2011
Cleopatra's Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.12 — 31,375 ratings — published 2009
A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.06 — 7,018 ratings — published 2020
Caesar (Masters of Rome, #5)
by (shelved 56 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.41 — 8,566 ratings — published 1997
Antony and Cleopatra (Masters of Rome, #7)
by (shelved 56 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.06 — 6,409 ratings — published 2007
The October Horse (Masters of Rome #6)
by (shelved 56 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.34 — 6,734 ratings — published 2002
The Gates of Rome (Emperor, #1)
by (shelved 54 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.20 — 31,777 ratings — published 2003
Julius Caesar (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 3.72 — 226,120 ratings — published 1599
Dictator (Cicero, #3)
by (shelved 53 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.42 — 19,436 ratings — published 2015
How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,338 ratings — published 2009
The Golden Ass (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 3.85 — 17,974 ratings — published 159
The Roman Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as ancient-rome)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,056 ratings — published 1939
“Ut haec ipsa qui non sentiat deorum vim habere is nihil omnino sensurus esse videatur."
If any man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.”
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If any man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.”
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“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property – either as a child, a wife, or a concubine – must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the faith: all know how to die but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.”
― The River War
― The River War
