ROMAN HISTORY READING GROUPREADING LISTSEarly Rome & The Republic (F) = FictionIn Loosely Chronological Order |
This free script provided by |
| Links to sections below | Site Links | ||
|---|---|---|---|
|
Overviews & Early Rome The Punic Wars The Gracchi The Republic The Provinces Religions General Travel Warfare |
Livy Cicero Gaius Julius Caesar Colleen McCullough John Maddox Roberts Steven Saylor Poetry & Literature |
Empire & Early
Byzantium Book List by Author Name German Language Books |
Home Site Index Roman History Books and More Blog Currently Reading Past Readings, Early Rome & Republic updated May 2008 |
| Polybius | Craig Brian Champlain | ||
| The Rise of the Roman Empire (Penguin Classics) | Online: Perseus | Cultural Politics in Polybius's Histories (Hellenistic Culture and Society) | |
| Early History of Rome | Rome and Italy | War with Hannibal | Rome and the Mediterranean |
| Andrew Feldherr | Gary B. Miles | ||
| Spectacle and Society in Livy's History | |||
| The Republic: And, the Laws | On Government | On the Good Life: Selected Writings | de Senectute-de Amicitia-de Divinatione |
| Select Letters | Letters to His Brother Quintus | Murder Trials | Cicero related mysteries |
| There are online texts ( The Genres of Rhetorics, or search Perseus, Perseus 4.0 Texts or Internet Classic Archive), as well as other Penguin Classics and Loeb's, which can be found on online stores, such as various sections of Letters to Atticus. | |||
| Shackleton Bailey, D.R. | Anthony Everitt | Robert Harris | |
| Cicero | Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician | Cicero: A Turbulent Life | Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome |
| T.J. Cornell | Michael Grant | Dio Cassius | |
| The Beginnings of Rome | History of Rome | The Ancient Historians | Roman
History, Books & Fragments, 9 Volumes Loeb's Classical Library |
| Appinanus | Theodor Mommsen | Stefan Rebenich | Steven Saylor |
| Appian's Roman History | Online: History of Rome
In German: Project Gutenberg |
Theodor Mommsen, Eine Biographie | Roma: The Novel of Ancient Rome |
| H.H. Scullard | |||
| A
History of the Roman World 753 to 146 BC |
From
the Gracchi to Nero: A History of Rome from 133 B.C. to A.D. 68 |
(with
Max Cary) A History of Rome: Down to the Reign of Constantine There are two editions of this (1975 & 1976) with the same ISBN: 0312383959. They are intermittently available in the stores and online. |
|
| Philip Matyszak | T.P. Wiseman | ||
| Chronicle of the Roman Republic: The Rulers of Ancient Rome from Romulus to Augustus
|
The Enemies of Rome: From Hannibal to Attila the Hun
|
Remus: A Roman Myth | The Myths of Rome |
| Michael Grant | Getty Trust Publications | Sabatino Moscati, editor | Peter Berresford Ellis |
| The Etruscans | The Etruscans: Art, Architecture, and History | The Phoenicians | Celt and Roman:
The Celts of Italy
celto-centric |
| Theodore Ayrault Dodge | George P. Baker | Ernle Bradford | Leonard Cotrell |
| Hannibal | Hannibal | Hannibal | Hannibal: Enemy of Rome |
| Adrian Goldsworthy | B. H. Liddell Hart | J. F. Lazenby | |
| The Fall of Carthage : The Punic Wars 265-146BC | Scipio Africanus: Greater Than Napoleon | The First Punic War | Hannibal's War: A Military History of the Second Punic War |
| Serge Lancel | John Peddie | John Prevas | |
| Hannibal | Hannibal's War | Hannibal Crosses the Alps: The Enigma Re-Examined | Hannibal
Crosses the Alps: The Invasion of Italy and the Second Punic War |
| Gillian Bradshaw | David Anthony Durham | Alternative History: John Maddox Roberts | |
| The Sand-Reckoner | Pride of Carthage | Hannibal's Children | The Seven Hills |
| Ross Leckie | |||
|
Hannibal The Novel | Scipio Africanus: The Man Who Defeated Hannibal | Carthage, A Novel |
| David Stockton | |||
| The Gracchi |
| John S. Richardson | Peter Salway | G.W. Bowersock | Peter S. Wells |
| The Romans in Spain | A History of Roman Britain | Roman Arabia | The Barbarians Speak: How the Conquered Peoples Shaped Roman Europe |
| Ernle Bradford | Michael Grant | Pat Southern | Margaret George |
| Cleopatra | Cleopatra | Cleopatra | The Memoirs of Cleopatra |
| Karen Essex | |||
| Kleopatra | Pharaoh | ||
| Jean-René Jannot | Alan Watson | ||
| Religion in Ancient Etruria (Wisconsin Studies in Classics) | The
State, Law & Religion: Pagan Rome |
| Flavius Josephus | John M. G. Barclay | ||
| The Complete Works of Josephus | The War of the Jews | The New Complete Works of Josephus | Jews
in the Mediterranean Diaspora: From Alexander to Trajan (323 BCE - 117 CE) |
| Online: The War of the Jews Antiquities of the Jews | |||
| Catullus | T.P. Wiseman | Lucretius | The Cambridge Companion |
| The
Poems of Catullus Peter Whigham, translator Online: Gaius Valerius Catullus |
Catullus and his World: A Reappraisal | On the Nature of the Universe | The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire |
| William Harris | Edith Hamilton | Thomas Habinek | Susanna Morton Braund |
| Ancient Literacy | The Roman Way | The Politics of Latin Literature: Writing, Identity, and Empire in Ancient Rome | The Roman Satirists and Their Masks |
| Pollio Vitruvius | |||
| On Architecture, Books I-V | On Architecture, Books VI-X | Ten Books on Architecture | Online: Vitruvius: On Architecture (Lacus Curtius) |
| John G. Landels | Roger Ulrich | Alexander Gordon McKay | |
| Engineering in the Ancient World | Roman Woodworking | Houses, Villas, and Palaces in the Roman World | |
| Lionel Casson | by K. W. Arafat | Christian Habicht | |
| Travel in the Ancient World | Pausanias' Greece: Ancient Artists and Roman Rulers | Pausanias' Guide to Ancient Greece (Sather Classical Lectures, 50) |
|
| Pausanias | |||
| Guide to Greece: Volume 1: Central Greece | Guide to Greece: Volume 2: Southern Greece | ||
| Hans Delbrück | Adrian Goldsworthy | J.E. Lendon | |
| Warfare
in Antiquity: History of the Art of War |
The Complete Roman Army | In the Name of Rome: The Men Who Won the Roman Empire |
Soldiers and Ghosts: Heroic Mythology and Soldiering in Antiquity |
| N.J.E. Austin & N.B. Rankov | |||
| Exploratio: Military and Political Intelligence in the Roman World from the Second Punic War to the Battle of Adrianople |
|
||
| Links to sections above | Site
Index Search this site For any questions please e-mail |
||
|
Overviews & Early Rome The Punic Wars The Gracchi The Republic The Provinces Religions General Travel Warfare |
Livy Cicero Poetry & Literature Colleen McCullough Gaius Julius Caesar John Maddox Roberts Steven Saylor |
||