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The Histories
Herodotus
4.01 average rating, · 56.8k ratings
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The Twelve Caesars
Suetonius
4.03 average rating, · 23.3k ratings
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Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
Tom Holland
4.16 average rating, · 12.2k ratings
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The Complete Poems
Catullus
4.10 average rating, · 11.8k ratings
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The Persian Expedition
Xenophon
4.11 average rating, · 10.2k ratings
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Fragments
Heraclitus
4.18 average rating, · 8.2k ratings
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The Civil War
Gaius Julius Caesar
4.07 average rating, · 7.3k ratings
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The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome
Susan Wise Bauer
4.11 average rating, · 6.8k ratings
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Theaetetus
Plato
4.11 average rating, · 6.7k ratings
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Plutarch's Lives: Volume I
Plutarch
4.10 average rating, · 6.2k ratings
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The Campaigns of Alexander
Arrian
4.17 average rating, · 5.5k ratings
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Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization
Lars Brownworth
4.12 average rating, · 5.6k ratings
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The Punic Wars
Adrian Goldsworthy
4.20 average rating, · 4.6k ratings
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The Rise of the Roman Empire
Polybius
4.06 average rating, · 4.9k ratings
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Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age
Tom Holland
4.18 average rating, · 4.4k ratings
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The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians
Peter Heather
4.16 average rating, · 4.4k ratings
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Alexander the Great
Robin Lane Fox
4.09 average rating, · 4.5k ratings
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The Fall of the Roman Republic
Plutarch
4.11 average rating, · 4.2k ratings
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The Histories
Tacitus
4.13 average rating, · 4k ratings
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24 Hours in Ancient Rome: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There
Philip Matyszak
4.00 average rating, · 4.2k ratings
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Heroides
Ovid
4.12 average rating, · 3.9k ratings
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The History of Rome, Books 21-30: The War with Hannibal
Livy
4.15 average rating, · 3.8k ratings
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
4.02 average rating, · 3.7k ratings
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Plutarch's Lives: Volume II
Plutarch
4.19 average rating, · 3.3k ratings
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