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Home Site Index Roman History Books and More Blog Currently Reading Past Readings, Empire & Early Byzantium updated May 2008 |
| Dio Cassius | Tacitus | ||
| Roman
History, Books & Fragments 9 Volumes, Loeb's Classical Library |
The
Annals
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The
Histories
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The Agricola and The Germania (Penguin Classics)
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| Online | Ronald Syme | ||
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Annals / The Annals (MIT) Agricola Germania Johan Ortiz Website: Roman History (14 - 70 A.D.) by Publius Cornelius Tacitus |
Tacitus: 2 Volumes (Oxford University Press Academic Monograph Reprints)
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| Seneca | |||
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Dialogue & Letters
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Letters
from a Stoic
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| Appianus | Ronald Syme | Suetonius | |
| The
Civil Wars
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The Roman
Revolution
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The
Twelve Caesars
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Online: Suetonius: Life of the Caesars |
| Fergus Millar | Josiah Osgood | Philip Matyszak | |
| The Roman Republic and the Augustan Revolution
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Caesar's Legacy: Civil War and the Emergence of the Roman Empire
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Chronicle of the Roman Republic: The Rulers of Ancient Rome from Romulus to Augustus
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The Sons of Caesar: Imperial Rome's First Dynasty
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| Alfred Duggan | Colleen McCullough Masters of Rome | ||
| Three's Company
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The
October Horse
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Antony and Cleopatra, A Novel
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| G. P. Baker | Barbara Levick | Robin Seager | Anthony Burgess |
| Tiberius
Caesar
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Tiberius
the Politician
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Tiberius
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Kingdom of the Wicked
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| Anthony A. Barrett | Barbara Levick | Allan Massie | |
| Caligula:
The Corruption of Power
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Tiberius
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Caligula
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| Robert Graves | |||
| Jean Baptiste Racine | |||
| Three Plays Phaedra/Britannicus/Andromache
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I,
Claudius
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Claudius
the God
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Ich Claudius
Kaiser und Gott
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| Edward Champlin | Miriam T. Griffin | Anthony A. Barrett | Henryk Sienkiewicz |
| Nero
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Nero: The End of a Dynasty
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Agrippina: Sex, Power, and Politics in the Early Empire
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Quo Vadis
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| James Duffy, Gladiators of the Empire series | Patrick Larkin | Jesse Browner | |
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The Fight for Rome
| The Tribune: A Novel of Ancient Rome
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The Uncertain Hour: A Novel
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| Under the Eagle
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The Eagle's Conquest
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When the Eagle Hunts
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The Eagle and the Wolves
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| The Eagle's Prey
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The Eagle's Prophecy
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| Ovid
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Germanicus
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Sejanus
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Old
Bones
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| The
Lydian Baker
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Last
Rites
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White
Murder
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A
Vote for Murder
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| Parthian Shot
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Illegally Dead
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| Kenne Wellesley | Barbara Levick | Pat Southern | Allan Massie |
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The
Year of the Four Emperors
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Vespasian
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Domitian:
Tragic Tyrant
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Nero's Heirs
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| Graham Webster | Lindsey Davis | David Corson | Donna Gillespie |
| The
Roman Imperial Army: Of the First and Second Centuries A.D.
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The
Course of Honor
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Domitia
and Domitian
| The
Lightbearer
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| Pliny the Elder | Pliny the Younger | Albert A.Bell Jr. | |
| Natural
History: A Selection
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Letters
Online: Letters |
From the Notebooks of Pliny the Younger (Mysteries) | |
| All
Roads Lead to Murder
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The Blood of Caesar | ||
| Albert A.Bell Jr. | Robert Harris | ||
| Daughter
of Lazarus
| Pompeii: A Novel
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| Julian Bennett | David Corson | Anthony Birley | Marguerite Yourcenar |
| Trajan:
Optimus Princeps
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Trajan
and Plotina
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Hadrian:
The Restless Emperor
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Memoirs
of Hadrian
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| Anthony Birley | Marcus Aurelius | Anthony Birley | Pat Southern |
| Marcus
Aurelius
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The
Meditations
Online: The Meditations |
Septimius
Severus
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The
Roman Cavalry: From the First to the Third Century AD with Karen Dixon
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| William L. MacDonald | Michael Grant | Michael Anderson | |
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Hadrian's
Villa and Its Legacy
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Pantheon
: Design, Meaning and Progeny
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The
Antonines: The Roman Empire in Transition
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The Parthian Interpreter: An Odyssey of the Later Empire
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| Pat Southern | Stephen Williams | Richard Stoneman | Judith Weingarten / blog |
| The Roman Empire from Severus to Constantine
| Diocletian
and the Roman Recovery
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Palmyra and Its Empire: Zenobia's Revolt against Rome
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The Chronicle of Zenobia: The Rebel Queen
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| Michael Grant | Sourcebook | Jacob Burckhardt | |
| The Severans: The Changed Roman Empire
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Constantine the Great:
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The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine
| The Age of Constantine the Great
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| A. H. M. Jones | Charles Odahl | G.P. Baker | |
| Constantine and the Conversion of Europe
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Constantine and the Christian Empire (Roman Imperial Biographies)
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Constantine the Great And the Christian Revolution
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| Ben Pastor (Aelius Spartianus Mysteries) | |||
| The Water Thief
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The Fire Walker
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| Ernle Bradford | Michael Grant | Pat Southern | Peter Salway |
| Cleopatra
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Cleopatra
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A History of Roman Britain
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| G.W. Bowersock | Fergus Millar | Peter S. Wells | |
| Roman Arabia
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Mosaics as History: The Near East from Late Antiquity to Islam
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The Roman Near East: 31 BC-AD 337
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The Barbarians Speak: How the Conquered Peoples Shaped Roman Europe
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| Herwig Wolfram | Karen Essex | Margaret George | |
| The Roman Empire and Its Germanic Peoples
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