 | Amida: A Novel by Mark Walker
Buy used from: £21.88 Epic novel of warfare and religious strife between Rome & Persia
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 | The Later Roman Empire: AD 354-378: (A.D. 354-378) (Classics) by Ammianus Marcellinus
Buy new: £8.35 / Used from: £6.00 The last great Roman historian -- a racy, scandal-filled narrative of Decline if not quite Fall
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 | The Aeneid (Everyman's Library classics) by Virgil
Buy new: £7.69 / Used from: £6.93 An attractive prose translation in a cheap hardcover edition
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 | The Odyssey (Penguin Classics) by Homer
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £3.10 Highly regarded translation from EV Rieu -- the standard study version
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 | The Civil War: Pharsalia or Bellum Civile by Lucan
Buy used from: £4.95 Gory and melodramatic account of the rivalry between Caesar and Pompey the Great -- witches, occultism, bloody battles and severed limbs galore!
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 | Plutarch's Lives: Volume 1 (The Dryden Translation) by Plutarch
Buy new: £15.99 / Used from: £10.38 Dryden's translation of Plutarch -- it's great to read these parallel lives as they should be, side by side
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 | Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans: v. 2 (Modern Library) by Plutarch
Buy used from: £35.41 Vol 2 of the above -- taken as a whole this is a vast history of both Greece and Rome
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 | The Early History of Rome: Bks. 1-5 (Penguin Classics) by Livy
Buy new: £6.68 / Used from: £2.99 The beginning of Livy's monumental work -- mostly myth not history -- shame it's not available complete in English
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 | The Annals of Imperial Rome (Classics) by Tacitus
Buy new: £7.36 / Used from: £0.61 Possibly the most high-minded of all historians, but not above salacious gossip either
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 | The Twelve Caesars by Gaius Suetonius
Buy used from: £3.77 Robert Graves' classic version of scandal-monger Suetonius
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 | The Histories (Oxford World's Classics) by Herodotus
Buy used from: £6.47 Don't miss -- the father of history and a sublime storyteller
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 | The Peloponnesian War (Classics) by Thucydides
Buy new: £7.66 / Used from: £0.40 Rex Warner's almost standard translation of this most serious of all historians
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 | The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Giftset (Penguin Classics) by Edward Gibbon
Buy used from: £503.40 Search second-hand bookshops, search Amazon's Zshops -- but get this complete not abridged, then relish one of the glories of the English language
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 | The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Penguin Classics) by Edward Gibbon
Buy new: £8.07 / Used from: £3.15 If you do one thing in your life that's worthwhile, read Gibbon complete not in this or any other abridgement
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 | Lays of Ancient Rome by Thomas Babbington Macaulay
Buy used from: £4.68 Macaulay's action-packed poems -- probably better to track down a second-hand edition, though
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 | The Secret History (Classics) by Procopius
Buy new: £8.09 / Used from: £0.09 More scandal and bile -- this time from the sixth century Byzantine court of Emperor Justinian, and scheming wife Theodora
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 | Annus Horribilis: Latin for Everyday Life by Mark Walker
Buy used from: £9.17 By the same author as Amida: A Novel
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 | Pompeii by Robert Harris
Buy used from: £0.01 Robert Harris's bestseller
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 | Imperium by Robert Harris
Buy new: £5.56 / Used from: £0.01 Harris's other Ancient Roman bestseller
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