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City of God (Penguin Classics)
Augustine of Hippo
Penguin Classics
Penguin Classics
Augustine's City of God, a monumental work of religious lore, philosophy, and history, was written as a kind of literary tombstone for Roman culture. After the sack of Rome, Augustine wrote this book to anatomize the corruption of Romans' pursuit...
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Meditations (Penguin Classics)
Marcus Aurelius
Penguin Classics
Penguin Classics
One measure, perhaps, of a book's worth, is its intergenerational pliancy: do new readers acquire it and interpret it afresh down through the ages? The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, translated and introduced by Gregory Hays, by that standard, is...
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Livy: The Early History of Rome, Books I-V (Penguin Classics)
Titus Livy
Penguin Classics
Penguin Classics
With stylistic brilliance and historical imagination, the first five books of Livy's monumental history of Rome record events from the foundation of Rome through the history of the seven kings, the establishment of the Republic and its internal...
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As The Romans Did: A Sourcebook in Roman Social History
Oxford University Press, USA
Oxford University Press, USA
Revised to include new selections and updated bibliographical material, the second edition of this popular sourcebook offers a rich, revealing look at everyday Roman life. It provides clear, lively translations of a fascinating array of documents...
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The Fall of the Roman Republic: Six Lives (Penguin Classics)
Plutarch
Penguin Classics
Penguin Classics
Romes famed historian illuminates the twilight of the old Roman Republic from 157 to 43 BC in succinct accounts of the greatest politicians and statesmen of the classical period.
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Caesar: Life of a Colossus
Adrian Goldsworthy
Yale University Press
Yale University Press
As Adrian Goldsworthy writes in the introduction to this book, “in his fifty-six years, Caesar was at times many things, including a fugitive, prisoner, rising politician, army leader, legal advocate, rebel, dictator . . . as well as husband,...
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The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Rome (Hist Atlas)
Chris Scarre
Penguin (Non-Classics)
Penguin (Non-Classics)
Matching clear graphics with informative text, Christopher Scarre's atlas gives a fine overview of Roman history from the emergence of the first city-state in the eighth century B.C. to the rise of Christian theocracy a millennium later. The...
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