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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe History of Rome, Books XXI-XXX: The War With Hannibal
Livy · 712 pages
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I
Edward Gibbon · 691 pages
Gibbon's masterpiece, which narrates the history of the Roman Empire from the second century a.d. to its collapse in the west in the fifth century and in the east in the fifteenth century, is widely considered the greatest work of history ever written. This abridgment retains the full scope of the original, but in a compass equivalent to a long novel. Casual readers now have access to the full swe
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 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
The Works of Josephus: Complete and Unabridged, New Updated Edition
Flavius Josephus · 854 pages
The Later Roman Empire (A.D. 354-378)
Ammianus Marcellinus · 506 pages
The Rise of the Roman Empire
Polybius · 574 pages
Political and social history, chronicle of military affairs.
Selected Political Speeches
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Michael Grant
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.
The Wonder That Was India: A Survey of the History and Culture of the Indian Sub-Continent before the coming of the Muslims
Arthur Llewellyn Basham · 572 pages
The Roman History: The Reign of Augustus
Cassius Dio · 368 pages
The Letters of the Younger Pliny
Pliny the Younger · 319 pages
The letters of Pliny (c. A.D. 61-113), a prominent lawyer, administrator and landowner, throw invaluable light on the Rome of his day; they also provide one of the fullest self-portraits to survive from classical times.
The Early History of Rome
Livy, Robert Maxwell Ogilvie · 401 pages
"Romulus and Remus, the rape of Lucretia, Horatius at the bridge, the saga of Coriolanus, Cincinnatus called from his farm to save the state - these and many more stories immortalized by Livy in his history of Rome have become part of our cultural heritage." "The historian's huge work consisted of 142 books which trace Rome's history from its foundation in 753 BC to events in Livy's own lifetime (