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Book Lists (in the process of being updated)
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What we are currently reading

May16
The Republic of Vengeance
by Paul Waters
June 6
The Scribes from Alexandria
by Caroline Lawrence (author chat!)

2012 Reading Calendar

Recent:
Moralia
Render unto Caesar
Caesar: A Novel
Arms of Nemesis
Time to Depart
The Pericles Commission
Cleopatra's Heir
Pharaoh: Volume II of Kleopatra
How to Mellify a Corpse
Ghosts of Cannae: Hannibal and the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic by Robert O'Connell
Tiberius Caesar by G.P. Baker
The Silver Branch
Salammbo
How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower
The Odes by Horace
Conspirata: A Novel of Ancient Rome
Get Out or Die (Aurelia)
All Roads Lead to Murder
Last Act in Palmyra
The Spartacus War
The Aeneid
Kleopatra
The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found
SPQR III: The Sacrilege
Martial
The Roman Way
Augustus, A Novel
Augustus
Marcus Aurelius: Meditations
Lavinia
Working IX to V
(author chat)
Ancient Rome on Five Denarii a Day
Tacitus, The Histories
The Eagle fo the Ninth
Ovid
Poseidon's Gold
Caesar: Life of a Colossus
The Letters of Pliny the Younger
Caesar's Women
Tiberius: The Memoirs of the Emperor
Satires by Horace
The Skystone (The Camulod Chronicles, Book 1)
The Golden Ass
Literature on Lucius Sergius Catilina
Winter Quarters
Rome's Greatest Defeat: Massacre in the Teutoburg Forest
(author chat)
The Battle That Stopped Rome: Emperor Augustus, Arminius, and the Slaughter of the Legions in the Teutoburg Forest
Roma: The Novel of Ancient Rome
The Beginnings of Rome: Italy From the Bronze Age to the Punic Wars (Circa 1,000 to 264 B.C.)
The Sand-Reckoner

Blogs
Roman History Books and more
N.S. Gill’s Blog at About.com
N.S. Gill's Tangents to Ancient History, Latin & Mythology
Robert Greaves' Matters Arising

Ancient Rome
as seen in the year 2001
A House in Pompeii

Tracing Roman Germania
Irene's Travelogue 1999
2002 travelogue mostly completed
Tracing Roman Germania 2003
still in the works due to a hard drive crash…

Book Reviews
Antony and Cleopatra
The Pericles Commission
Empire:The Novel of Imperial Rome
Three Pliny Mysteries
How to Mellify a Corpse: And Other Human Stories of Ancient Science & Superstition
Medicus (mystery)
The Fight for Rome: A Gladiators of the Empire Novel
The Day of the Barbarians: The Battle That Led to the Fall of the Roman Empire
Justinian's Flea
Ancient Rome on Five Denarii a Day
A Coin for the Ferryman (mystery)
Saturnalia (mystery)
In at the Death (mystery)
Roma: The Novel of Ancient Rome
Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor
Roman Woodworking
Rome's Gothic Wars: From the Third Century to Alaric
The Last Roman: Romulus Augustulus and the Decline of the West
Belisarius: The First Shall Be Last
Caesar: Life of a Colossus
Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome
The Chronicle of Zenobia: The Rebel Queen
Getorix: The Eagle and The Bull: A Celtic Adventure in Ancient Rome
Rome's Greatest Defeat: The Battle in the Teutoburg Forest
All of Irene's Reviews
Ancient History at About.com: Guide Reviews - Guest Reviews

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