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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
Mary Beard
4.05 average rating, · 85.7k ratings
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The Histories
Herodotus
4.01 average rating, · 56.8k ratings
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Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
Tom Holland
4.23 average rating, · 29.1k ratings
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The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic
Mike Duncan
4.24 average rating, · 16.6k ratings
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The Twelve Caesars
Suetonius
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Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization
Graham Hancock
4.16 average rating, · 15.8k ratings
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Caesar: Life of a Colossus
Adrian Goldsworthy
4.25 average rating, · 13.6k ratings
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Edward Gibbon
4.02 average rating, · 15.7k ratings
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Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
Tom Holland
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The Conquest of Gaul
Gaius Julius Caesar
4.02 average rating, · 13.9k ratings
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The Persian Expedition
Xenophon
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Fragments
Heraclitus
4.18 average rating, · 8.2k ratings
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Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar
Tom Holland
4.17 average rating, · 7.7k ratings
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Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
Mary Beard
4.08 average rating, · 7.8k ratings
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Alexander the Great
Philip Freeman
4.33 average rating, · 6.3k ratings
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Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth's Lost Civilization
Graham Hancock
4.17 average rating, · 7k ratings
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The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt
Toby Wilkinson
4.13 average rating, · 7k 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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The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
Catherine Nixey
4.06 average rating, · 6.9k ratings
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A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome
Emma Southon
4.07 average rating, · 6.8k ratings
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Theaetetus
Plato
4.11 average rating, · 6.7k ratings
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Ancient Times: From the Earliest Nomads to the Last Roman Emperor
Susan Wise Bauer
4.29 average rating, · 5.8k ratings
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Plutarch's Lives: Volume I
Plutarch
4.10 average rating, · 6.2k ratings
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