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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorMakers of Rome: Nine Lives
Plutarch · 366 pages
Nine selections from the Greek historian's famous Lives, spotlighting key Roman figures from the earliest years of the Republic to the beginning of the Empire.
Alexander the Great
Robin Lane Fox · 568 pages
Tough, resolute, fearless, Alexander was a born warrior and ruler of passionate ambition who understood the intense adventure of conquest and of the unknown. When he died in 323 BC aged thirty-two, his vast empire comprised more than two million square miles, spanning from Greece to India. His achievements were unparalleled - he had excelled as leader to his men, founded eighteen new cities and st
Caesar: Life of a Colossus
Adrian Goldsworthy · 608 pages
The Twelve Caesars
Suetonius · 352 pages
De vita Caesarum, known as The Twelve Caesars, is a set of twelve biographies, each about one of the Roman emperors, including one on Julius Caesar. It was written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, commonly referred to as Suetonius, in 121. Considered highly significant in antiquity, The Twelve Caesars has remained a major source of Roman history.
Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C.
Peter Green · 617 pages
The Rise of the Roman Empire
Polybius · 574 pages
Political and social history, chronicle of military affairs.
The History of Rome, Books XXI-XXX: The War With Hannibal
Livy · 712 pages
Cleopatra: A Life
Stacy Schiff · 441 pages
From back cover: Famous long before she was notorious, Cleopatra has gone down in history for all the wrong reasons; her supple personality and the drama of her circumstances have been lost. In a masterly return to the classical sources, Stacy Schiff boldly separates fact from fiction to rescue the magnetic queen whose death ushered in a new world order.
Hannibal: One Man Against Rome
Harold Lamb · 300 pages
This is the breathtaking adventure of the great Carthaginian general who shook the foundations of Rome. When conflict between Rome and Carthage resumed in 219 B.C., after a brief hiatus from the first Punic War, the Romans decided to invade Spain. Eluding several Roman legions sent out to intercept him in Spain and France, Hannibal Barca astoundingly led his small army of mercenaries over the Alps
The Later Roman Empire (A.D. 354-378)
Ammianus Marcellinus · 506 pages
The Persian Expedition
Xenophon · 375 pages
The Anabasis by Xenophon (c. 430-c. 354 BCE) is an eyewitness account of Greek mercenaries' challenging "March Up-Country" from Babylon back to the coast of Asia Minor under Xenophon's guidance in 401 BCE, after their leader Cyrus the Younger fell in a failed campaign against his brother.
The Persian War
Herodotus, William Shepard · 136 pages
The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy
Adrienne Mayor · 478 pages
Alexander The Great
Paul Anthony Cartledge · 360 pages
"In Alexander the Great, Paul Cartledge describes the brief but iconic life of Alexander (356-323 B.C.), king of Macedon, conqueror of the Persian Empire and founder of a new world order. Cartledge's book is, above all, a hunt for a new past to counter the myths, legends, and often skewed history that have been passed down to us." "At the age of twenty, Alexander inherited the mantle of his father
The Histories
Tacitus · 415 pages
Edward Gibbon called The Histories an 'immortal work, every sentence of which is pregnant with the deepest observations and the most lively images.' Its author, Cornelius Tacitus, widely acknowledged as the greatest of all Roman historians, describes with cynical power the murderous 'Year of the Four Emperors' - AD 69 - when in just a few months the whole of the Roman Empire was torn apart by civi
The history of Herodotus — Volume 1
Herodotus · 488 pages
On Justice, Power and Human Nature: Selections from The History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides · 172 pages
Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero
James Romm · 290 pages
Explores the moral struggles, political intrigues and violent vendettas that enmeshed Seneca, the ancient Roman writer and philosopher, in the brutal daily lives of the imperial family and the regime of his student, Nero.
The Trojan War: A New History
Barry S. Strauss · 288 pages
"The Trojan War is the most famous conflict in history, the subject of Homer's Iliad, one of the cornerstones of Western literature. Although many readers know that this literary masterwork is based on actual events, there is disagreement about how much of Homer's tale is true. Drawing on recent archeological research, historian and classicist Barry Strauss explains what really happened in Troy mo