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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as classical-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 87,797 ratings — published 2015
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as classical-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 57,315 ratings — published -430
History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as classical-history)
avg rating 3.95 — 41,596 ratings — published -411
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as classical-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 29,966 ratings — published 2003
The Twelve Caesars (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as classical-history)
avg rating 4.03 — 23,598 ratings — published 121
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as classical-history)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,287,069 ratings — published -800
Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as classical-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 12,506 ratings — published 2005
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as classical-history)
avg rating 3.94 — 537,622 ratings — published -750
Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 17 times as classical-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 7,899 ratings — published 2015
The Conquest of Gaul (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as classical-history)
avg rating 4.02 — 14,025 ratings — published -50
The Rise of the Roman Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as classical-history)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,937 ratings — published -170
The Agricola and The Germania (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as classical-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 6,339 ratings — published 98
The Persian Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as classical-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 10,321 ratings — published -370
The Rise of Rome: The Making of the World's Greatest Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as classical-history)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,617 ratings — published 2012
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as classical-history)
avg rating 4.02 — 15,781 ratings — published 1776
Cleopatra: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as classical-history)
avg rating 3.73 — 125,720 ratings — published 2010
Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the War for Crown and Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as classical-history)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,381 ratings — published 2011
A History of My Times (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as classical-history)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,469 ratings — published -356
Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as classical-history)
avg rating 3.91 — 8,537 ratings — published 2001
The Punic Wars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as classical-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,713 ratings — published 2000
Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as classical-history)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,768 ratings — published 2020
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as classical-history)
avg rating 3.75 — 14,381 ratings — published 2014
The Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as classical-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 5,436 ratings — published 2003
Caesar: Life of a Colossus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as classical-history)
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 11 times as classical-history)
avg rating 4.24 — 16,872 ratings — published 2017
The History of Rome, Books 1-5: The Early History of Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as classical-history)
avg rating 3.96 — 10,080 ratings — published -29
Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as classical-history)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,486 ratings — published 2006
The Civil War (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as classical-history)
avg rating 4.07 — 7,378 ratings — published -47
The Annals of Imperial Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as classical-history)
avg rating 3.99 — 9,504 ratings — published 116
Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures and Innovations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as classical-history)
avg rating 3.70 — 2,474 ratings — published 2013
The Roman Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as classical-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,056 ratings — published 1939
Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as classical-history)
avg rating 3.95 — 4,943 ratings — published 2011
The Jugurthine War / The Conspiracy of Catiline (Penguin Classics)
by (shelved 10 times as classical-history)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,769 ratings — published -63
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as classical-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,589 ratings — published 1776
The Classical World: An Epic History from Homer to Hadrian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as classical-history)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,447 ratings — published 2005
Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as classical-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 4,689 ratings — published 2023
The Jewish War (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as classical-history)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,035 ratings — published 75
Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as classical-history)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,955 ratings — published 2009
Meditations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as classical-history)
avg rating 4.27 — 382,829 ratings — published 180
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as classical-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,039 ratings — published 110
The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as classical-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,370 ratings — published 2022
Mythos - The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as classical-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 179,861 ratings — published 2017
The Rise of Athens: The Story of the World's Greatest Civilization (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as classical-history)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,754 ratings — published 2016
The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as classical-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 5,716 ratings — published 2008
A War Like No Other: How the Athenians & Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as classical-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,276 ratings — published 2005
The Oxford History of the Classical World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as classical-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 260 ratings — published 1986
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as classical-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 149,004 ratings — published -19
The Spartans: The World of the Warrior - Heroes of Ancient Greece, From Utopia to Crisis and Collapse (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as classical-history)
avg rating 3.77 — 3,202 ratings — published 2002
Alexander the Great (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as classical-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 4,586 ratings — published 1962
The Fall of the Roman Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as classical-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 4,248 ratings — published 100
