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| Fast, Howard | Spartacus | ||||||||
| Geary, Judith | Getorix: The Eagle and The Bull: A Celtic Adventure in Ancient Rome see Irene's Review | ||||||||
| Gedge, Pauline | The Eagle and the Raven | ||||||||
| George, Margaret | The Memoirs of Cleopatra | ||||||||
| Gillespie, Donna | The Lightbearer | ||||||||
| Graves, Robert |
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Claudius Claudius the God Count Belisarius |
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| Harris, Robert | Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome see Irene's Review Pompeii: A Novel |
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| Jaro, Benita Kane |
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| Juvenal | The Satires (Oxford World's Classics) / Online (Google Books, requires – free – Google account) | ||||||||
| Koestler, Arthur | Gladiators (Spartacus) | ||||||||
| Larkin, Patrick | The Tribune: A Novel of Ancient Rome see Irene's Review | ||||||||
| Leckie, Ross |
Hannibal,
The Novel Scipio Africanus: The Man Who Defeated Hannibal Carthage, A Novel see Irene's review |
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| Maier, Paul | The Flames of Rome | ||||||||
| Massie, Allan |
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| McCullough, Colleen |
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| Noyer, Albert | The Saint's Day Deaths The Secundus Papyrus Irene's review The Cybelene Conspiracy Irene's review |
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| Panella, Vincent | Cutter's Island | ||||||||
| Pastor, Ben |
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| Racine, Jean Baptiste | Three Plays: Phaedra/Britannicus/Andromache | ||||||||
| Roberts, John Maddox |
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| Salisbury, Joyce | Perpetua's Passion | ||||||||
| Saramago, Jose | The Gospel According to Christ not for the faint-hearted! | ||||||||
| Saylor, Steven | Roma: The Novel of Ancient Rome
Irene's Review
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| Scarrow, Simon |
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| Sienkiewicz, Henryk | Quo Vadis | ||||||||
| Turteltaub, H.N. | Justinian | ||||||||
| Vidal, Gore | Julian | ||||||||
| Weingarten, Judith | The Chronicle of Zenobia: The Rebel Queen Blog | ||||||||
| Wilder, Thornton | The Ides of March | ||||||||
| Williams, John | Augustus | ||||||||
| Wishart, David | I, Virgil
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| Yourcenar, Marguerite | Memoirs of Hadrian | ||||||||
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| Cambridge Companion | The Cambridge Companion to Ovid The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire |
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| Morton Bround, Susanna | The Roman Satirists and Their Masks | ||
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| Juvenal | The Satires (Oxford World's Classics) | ||
| Lucretius | On the Nature of the Universe | ||
| Ovid |
a modernised version of Arthur Golding's 1567 translation |
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| Sulpicia | Latin Poetry - Sulpicia |
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OXFORD CLASSICAL DICTIONARY THE PENGUIN HISTORICAL ATLAS OF ANCIENT ROME (Penguin Historical Atlases) |
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| Cambridge Companion | The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire | |||||||||
| Cambridge Companion | The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine | |||||||||
| Adkins, Lesley & Roy | Handbook to Life in Ancient Rome | |||||||||
| Amminanus Marcellinus | The Later Roman Empire (A.D. 354-378) | |||||||||
| Appianus |
The
Civil Wars Appian's Roman History |
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| Arafat, K.W. | Pausanias' Greece: Ancient Artists and Roman Rulers | |||||||||
| Austin, N.J.E. Rankov, N.B. |
Exploratio: Military and Political Intelligence in the Roman World from the Second Punic War to the Battle of Adrianople | |||||||||
| Badian, Ernst |
Publicans and Sinners: Private Enterprise in
the Service of the Roman Republic, with a Critical Bibliography |
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| Baker, George P. |
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| Ball, Warwick | Rome in the East: The Transformation of an Empire | |||||||||
| Balsdon, J.P.V.D. | Romans & Aliens | |||||||||
| Barbero, Alessandro | The Day of the Barbarians: The Battle That Led to the Fall of the Roman Empire Irene's Review | |||||||||
| Barclay, John M. G. | Jews in the Mediterranean Diaspora: From Alexander to Trajan (323 BCE - 117 CE) | |||||||||
| Barrett, Anthony A. |
Livia:
First Lady of Imperial Rome Caligula: The Corruption of Power Agrippina: Sex, Power, and Politics in the Early Empire |
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| Barton, Carlin |
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Sorrows Of The Ancient Romans: The Gladiator and the Monster Roman Honor: The Fire in the Bones |
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| Beard, Mary | Rome in the Late Republic (with Michael Crawford) The Roman Triumph |
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| Bell, Albert A. | Exploring The New Testament World An Illustrated Guide To The World Of Jesus And The First Christians | |||||||||
| Bennett, Julian | Trajan: Optimus Princeps | |||||||||
| Birley, Anthony |
Hadrian,
The Restless Emperor Marcus Aurelius Septimius Severus |
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| Bober, Phyllis Pray | Art, Culture, and Cuisine: Ancient and Medieval Gastronomy | |||||||||
| Bowersock, G.W. |
Julian
the Apostate Roman Arabia Mosaics as History: The Near East from Late Antiquity to Islam |
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| Bradford, Ernle |
Cleopatra Hannibal |
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| Braund, Susanna M. | The Roman Satirists and Their Masks | |||||||||
| Browning, Robert | The Byzantine Empire | |||||||||
| Burckhardt, Jacob | The Age of Constantine the Great | |||||||||
| Burns, Thomas | A History of the Ostrogoths | |||||||||
| Caesar | The
Conquest of Gaul The Civil War: With the Anonymous Alexandrian, African, and Spanish Wars Online: Julius Caesar's War Commentaries including the later commentaries not written by himself |
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| Carcopino, Jérôme | Daily
Life in Ancient Rome:
The People and the City at the Height of the Empire 2nd edition, edited & annotated, 2003 |
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| Casson, Lionel | Travel in the Ancient World | |||||||||
| Champion, Craig Brian | Cultural Politics in Polybius's Histories (Hellenistic Culture and Society) | |||||||||
| Champlin, Edward | Nero | |||||||||
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Cicero The Cicero Home Page |
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| Clunn, Tony | The Quest for the Lost Roman Legions: Discovering the Varus Battlefield see Irene's Review | |||||||||
| Cornell, T.J. | The Beginnings of Rome | |||||||||
| Cottrell, Leonard | Hannibal, Enemy of Rome | |||||||||
| Dando-Collins, Stephen | Caesar's Legion: The Epic Saga of Julius Caesar's Elite Tenth Legion and the Armies of Rome | |||||||||
| Delbrück, Hans | Warfare in Antiquity, History of the Art of War | |||||||||
| Dio Cassius |
Roman History, Books & Fragments,
9 Volumes Loeb's Classical Library The Roman History: The Reign of Augustus Dio (Cassius Dio) - Roman History (Lacus Curtius) |
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| Dionysius of Halicarnassus | The Roman Antiquities Books I-II Volume 1 (Loeb Classical Library, No 319) The Roman Antiquities Books III-IV Volume 2 (Loeb Classical Library, No 347) The Roman Antiquities,Books V-VI (48) Volume 3 (Loeb Classical Library No 357) The Roman Antiquities, Books VI (49)-VII Volume 4 (Loeb Classical Library No 364) The Roman Antiquities, Books VIII-IX (24), Volume 5 (Loeb Classical Library No 372) The Roman Antiquities, Books IX (25)-X, Volume 6 (Loeb Classical Library No 378) The Roman Antiquities, Books XI, Fragments of Books XII-XX & General Index, Volume 7 (Loeb Classical Library 388) |
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| Dodge, Theodore Ayrault |
Hannibal Caesar : A History of the Art of War Among the Romans Down to the End of the Roman Empire, With a Detailed Account of the Campaigns of Gaius Julius Caesar |
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| Dupont, Florence | Daily Life in Ancient Rome | |||||||||
| Ellis, Peter Berresford | Celt
and Roman: The Celts of Italy very kelto-centric |
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| Eusebius | The
History of the Church from Christ to Constantine The Church History, A New Translation With Commentary by Paul L. Maier |
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| Everitt, Anthony | Cicero:
A Turbulent Life out of print, but
the same as: Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor Trade Paperback out in October 2007 Irene's Review |
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| Feeney, Denis | Caesar's Calendar: Ancient Time and the Beginnings of History (Sather Classical Lectures) | |||||||||
| Feldherr, Andrew | Spectacle and Society in Livy's History | |||||||||
| Freeman, Philip | Julius Caesar | |||||||||
| Gager, John G. | Curse Tablets and Binding Spells from the Ancient World | |||||||||
| Galinsky, Karl | Augustan Culture | |||||||||
| Gelzer, Mathias | Caesar: Politician and Statesman | |||||||||
| Getty Trust Publications | The Etruscans: Art, Architecture, and History | |||||||||
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| Goldsworthy, Adrian | The Fall of Carthage : The Punic Wars 265-146BC The Complete Roman Army In the Name of Rome : The Men Who Won the Roman Empire Caesar : Life of a Colossus Irene's Review N.S. Gill's review |
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| Gozzini Giacosa, Ilaria | A Taste of Ancient Rome | |||||||||
| Grant, Michael | Many works and biographies concerning the
Ancient World - many are out of print, but reprints are cropping up periodically
in bookstores and book clubs, and online stores. A Sampling:
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| Griffin, Miriam T. | Nero: The End of a Dynasty | |||||||||
| Gruen, Erich S. |
Culture
and National Identity in Republican Rome The Last Generation of the Roman Republic |
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| Habicht, Christian | Pausanias' Guide to Ancient Greece (Sather Classical Lectures, 50) | |||||||||
| Habinek, Thomas | The Politics of Latin Literature: Writing, Identity, and Empire in Ancient Rome | |||||||||
| Haldon, J. F. |
Byzantium in the Seventh Century: The Transformation
of a Culture Warfare, State and Society in the Byzantine World |
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| Hamilton, Edith | The Roman Way | |||||||||
| Harris, William | Ancient Literacy | |||||||||
| Heather, Peter | The Fall of the Roman Empire : A New History of Rome and the Barbarians Goths in the Fourth Century (Translated Texts for Historians) |
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| Holland, Tom | Rubicon : The Last Years of the Roman Republic | |||||||||
| Jannot, Jean-René | Religion in Ancient Etruria (Wisconsin Studies in Classics) | |||||||||
| Jones, A. H. M. | Augustus (Ancient Culture & Society) Constantine and the Conversion of Europe |
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| Josephus |
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| Kahn, Arthur D. | The Education of Julius Caesar: A Biography, A Reconstruction | |||||||||
| Keaveney, A. (Arthur) | Sulla; The last Republican Rome And The Unification Of Italy |
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| Kleiner, Diane E.E. | Cleopatra and Rome | |||||||||
| Kulikowski, Michael | Rome's Gothic Wars: From the Third Century to Alaric (Key Conflicts of Classical Antiquity) see Irene's review | |||||||||
| Kyle, Donald G. | Spectacles of Death in Ancient Rome (Approaching the Ancient World) | |||||||||
| Landels, John G. | Engineering in the Ancient World | |||||||||
| Lancel, Serge | Hannibal | |||||||||
| Lazenby, John |
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First Punic War Hannibal's War: A Military History of the Second Punic War |
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| Lendon, J.E. | Soldiers and Ghosts: Heroic Mythology and Soldiering in Antiquity Review by Jim Bloom | |||||||||
| Levick, Barbara |
Claudius Tiberius the Politician Vespasian The Government of the Roman Empire: A Sourcebook |
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| Liddell Hart, B. H. | Scipio
Africanus: Greater Than Napoleon see review by Jim Bloom |
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| MacDonald, William L. | Hadrian's
Villa and Its Legacy Pantheon : Design, Meaning and Progeny |
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| MacMullen, Ramsay | Paganism in the Roman Empire | |||||||||
| Majno, Guido | Healing Hand: Man and Wound in the Ancient World | |||||||||
| Lord Mahon | The Life of Belisarius | |||||||||
| Marcus Aurelius |
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| Matyszak, Philip | Ancient Rome on Five Denarii a Day Irene's Review Chronicle of the Roman Republic: The Rulers of Ancient Rome from Romulus to Augustus The Enemies of Rome: From Hannibal to Attila the Hun The Sons of Caesar: Imperial Rome's First Dynasty |
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| McKay, Gordon A. | Houses, Villas, and Palaces in the Roman World | |||||||||
| Meier, Christian | Caesar, A Biography | |||||||||
| Miles, Gary B. | Livy: Reconstructing Early Rome | |||||||||
| Millar, Fergus | The Crowd in Rome in the Late Republic (Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures) The Roman Near East: 31 BC-AD 337 A Greek Roman Empire: Power and Belief under Theodosius II (408-450) (Sather Classical Lectures) Rome, the Greek World, and the East: Volume 1: The Roman Republic and the Augustan Revolution Volume 2: Government, Society, and Culture in the Roman Empire (Studies in the History of Greece and Rome) |
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| Moascati, Sabatino (editor) | The Phoenicians | |||||||||
| Murdoch, Adrian | The Last Pagan : Julian the Apostate and the Death of the Ancient World New paperback edition 2008 Rome's Greatest Defeat: Massacre in the Teutoburg Forest see Irene's review The Last Roman: Romulus Augustulus and the Decline of the West (UK only at this time) see Irene's review |
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| Odahl, Charles | Constantine and the Christian Empire (Roman Imperial Biographies) | |||||||||
| Osgood, Josiah | Caesar's Legacy: Civil War and the Emergence of the Roman Empire | |||||||||
| Parslow, Christoper C. | Rediscovering Antiquity : Karl Weber and the Excavation of Herculaneum, Pompeii and Stabiae | |||||||||
| Pausanias | Guide to Greece: Volume 1: Central Greece Guide to Greece: Volume 2: Southern Greece |
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| Peddie, John | Hannibal's War | |||||||||
| Pennell, Robert F. | Ancient Rome from the Earliest Times Down to 476 A.D., 1890. E-text. A curiosity? | |||||||||
| Perrotett, Tony Route 66 A.D. |
Route 66 A.D. : On the Trail of Ancient Roman Tourists Paperback version: Pagan Holiday |
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| Pliny the Elder | Natural History: A Selection | |||||||||
| Pliny the Younger |
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| Plutarch | Fall of the Roman Republic: Six Lives | |||||||||
| Polybius | The Rise of the Roman Empire | |||||||||
| Pomery, Sarah B. | Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity | |||||||||
| Prevas, John |
Hannibal
Crosses the Alps: The Enigma Re-Examined
Hardcover Hannibal Crosses the Alps: The Invasion of Italy and the Second Punic War Trade Paperback |
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| Procopius |
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| Richardson, John S. | The Romans in Spain | |||||||||
| Riggsby, Andrew M. | Crime & Community in Ciceronian Rome | |||||||||
| Robinson, O.F. | Ancient Rome: City Planning and Administration | |||||||||
| Rohrbacher, David | The Historians of Late Antiquity | |||||||||
| Rosen, William | Justinian's Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe Irene's Review | |||||||||
| Sabben-Clare, James | Caesar and Roman Politics, 60-50 B.C. | |||||||||
| Crispus C. Sallustius | The Jugurthine War & The Conspiracy of Catiline Online: Conspiracy of Catiline | |||||||||
| Salway, Peter | A History of Roman Britain | |||||||||
| Scullard, H.H. | 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 A History of Rome: Down to the Reign of Constantine. (Note: There are two editions of this (1975 & 1976) with the same ISBN: 0312383959. They are intermittently available in the stores and online.) Scipio Africanus, Soldier and Politician see review by Jim Bloom |
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| Seager, Robin | Pompey the Great: A Political Biography Tiberius |
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| Seneca |
Dialogue & Letters Letters from a Stoic |
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| Shackleton Bailey, D.R. | Cicero | |||||||||
| Shelton, Jo-Ann | As the Romans Did: A Sourcebook in Roman Social History | |||||||||
| Sider, David | The Library of the Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum | |||||||||
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| Stockton, David | The Gracchi | |||||||||
| Stoneman, Richard | Palmyra and Its Empire: Zenobia's Revolt against Rome | |||||||||
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| Tatum, W. Jeffrey | The Patrician Tribune: Publius Clodius Pulcher | |||||||||
| Taylor, Lily Ross | Party
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| Toynbee, JMC | Death and Burial in the Roman World | |||||||||
| Ulrich, Roger | Roman Woodworking | |||||||||
| Vegetius, Flavius | Epitome of Military Science | |||||||||
| Vitruvius, Pollio |
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| Ward-Perkins, Bryan | The Fall of Rome And the End of Civilization | |||||||||
| Watson, Alan | The State, Law & Religion: Pagan Rome | |||||||||
| Webster, Graham | The Roman Imperial Army : Of the First and Second Centuries A.D. | |||||||||
| Wellesley, Kenne | The Year of the Four Emperors | |||||||||
| Wells, Peter S. | The Barbarians Speak: How the Conquered Peoples Shaped Roman Europe The Battle That Stopped Rome: Emperor Augustus, Arminius, and the Slaughter of the Legions in the Teutoburg Forest N.S. Gill's Review |
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| Wiedemann, Thomas | Emperors and Gladiators | |||||||||
| Williams, Stephen |
Diocletian
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| Wiseman, T.P. |
Catullus and his World: A Reappraisal Roman Drama and Roman History (Exeter Studies in History) (In the UK) Historiography and Imagination Remus: A Roman Myth The Myths of Rome / paperback to come out soon |
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| Wolfram, Herwig | The Roman Empire and Its Germanic Peoples | |||||||||
GERMAN BOOKS These are mostly books from my own library. For online purchases, go to Amazon.de
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| Benrath, Henry | Die Kaiserin Galla Placidia | ||
| Brecht, Bertolt | Die Geschäfte des Herrn Julius Caesar | ||
| Broch, Hermann | Der Tod des Vergil | ||
| Dahn, Felix | Ein Kampf um Rom a literary curiosity, online text | ||
| Deegener, Jutta | Sulla | ||
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| Graves, Robert von Ranke |
Ich, Claudius, Kaiser und Gott Graves created a German version, streamlined into one volume. He supervised the translation and wrote an explanatory forword, also citing his sources. Now in print again! |
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| Koestler, Arthur | Die Gladiatoren (Spartakus) |
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| DER KLEINE PAULY. LEXICON DER ANTIKE | |||
| Alföldi, Andreas | Das Frühe Rom und die Latiner | ||
| Albrecht, Michael von | Geschichte der Römischen Literatur, Band I & II | ||
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Baatz, Dietwulf Bockius, Ronald |
VEGETIUS und die Römische
Flotte Praecepta belli navalis Latin Text, German translation, and much more |
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| Badian, Ernst | Zöllner und Sünder Translation from the English supervised by the author whose native language is German. |
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| Bellen, Heinz | Grundzüge der Römischen
Geschichte, Band I: VON DER KÖNIGSZEIT BIS ZUM ÜBERGANG DER REPUBLIK IN DEN PRINZIPAT Grundzüge der Römischen Geschichte, Band II: DIE KAISERZEIT VON AUGUSTUS BIS DIOCLETIAN |
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| Brödner, Erika | Die Römischen Thermen und das Antike Badewesen | ||
| Burckhardt, Jacob | Die Zeit Constantins des Grossen | ||
| Christ, Karl | Sulla
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Karriere Krise und Untergang der Römischen Republik Neue Profile der Alten Geschichte Von Gibbon zu Rostovtzeff |
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| Frank, Karl Suso | Grundzüge der Geschichte der Alten Kirche | ||
| Girardet, Klaus | Die Konstantinische Wende | ||
| Marquardt, Joachim | Das Privatleben der Römer, Band I & II | ||
| Meier, Christian | Caesar | ||
| Meyer, Ernst | Römischer Staat und Staatsgedanke | ||
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| Rebenich, Stefan | Theodor Mommsen, Eine Biographie Irene's Review | ||
| Seibert, Jakob | Hannibal |
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