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Top 6 Product
Learn to read the Latin language using these Latin textbooks
Top 7 Greek Tragedy - Sophocles
The Greek tragedy of Sophocles in one volume editions providing notes and commentaries or adaptations by modern poets and classicists
Top 5 Historical Mystery Fiction - Lindsey Davis
Lindsey Davis' historical mystery fiction, set in Flavian Rome, beginning in A.D. 70, under Vespasian, feature the scruffy, lower-class, underpaid informer Marcus Didius Falco and his girl friend and later wife, Helena, the daughter of a senator.
Top 3 Books on the Late Republic / Roman Revolution
Books on the end of the Roman Republic. When the Republican Period ended a Principate replaced it and the era was called the Imperial Period of Rome.
Top 8 Modern Biographies of Alexander the Great
Top books by modern writers for a quick look at Alexander the Great, the youthful Macedonian conqueror about whom we have only limited contemporary records.
Top 10 Historical Mystery Fiction - Lindsey Davis
This historical mystery fiction series by Lindsey Davis, featuring Marcus Didius Falco, is set in ancient Rome. The series begins in A.D. 70, under Vespasian. Marcus Didius Falco is now comfortably living much above his station, with Helena Justina, a senator's daughter. The Falco series by Lindsey Davis provides entertainment in an Imperial Roman setting.
Top 5 Specialized Augustus Books
Books about Augustus, the successor of Julius Caesar and the first emperor of Rome, which either go into depth about some aspect of his life and career, or the importance of his contributions.
Top 4 Ancient Roman Marriage and Family Books
Books about the Roman family, including extended family members, such as slaves, servants, and wetnurses, the laws governing marriage, and the ways in which reality sometimes conflicted with ideals.
Top 5 Atlases of the Ancient World
Atlases of the ancient world. Locate city-states of Ancient Greece, the extent of the Roman Empire, cities of the ancient cradle of civilization on maps in these atlases, and find information on ancient geographical sites.
Top 5 H.H. Scullard Roman History Books
Books by H.H. Scullard on Roman history - festivals of ancient Rome - the Etruscans - Roman Britain
Top 6 Books on Ancient Egyptian Women
Books on women in Ancient Egypt, including those most famous Egyptian women, the pharaohs and wives of pharaohs. Egyptian women intrigue us because they had certain rights and powers that were uncommon in antiquity.
Top 3 Euripides Tragedies Translations Collected Works
Collected works of the tragedies of Euripides translated into English
Top 7 Cleopatra of Egypt Books
Books presenting the truth about Cleopatra VII of Egypt, the Macedonian pharaoh who ruled Egypt and had affairs with Roman leaders Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony, and is a perennial favorite in drama.
Top 6 Introductions to Imperial Roman History
Books for students of Roman history introducing them to the Imperial Period of ancient Rome. The Roman Imperial Period sometimes includes the end of the Roman Republic and Julius Caesar and runs to the Fall of Rome to the barbarians. Sometimes Imperial Rome starts with Augustus and the Julio-Claudian emperors.
Top 10 Books on the poet Sappho
Books about the poet of Lesbos, Sappho, her poetry, life, lesbianism, analyses of the relationship between her writing and that of other poets.
Top 4 Books about Roman Satire
Books about Roman Satire, especially Roman verse satire written by Horace, Juvenal, Persius, but also including Menippean satire like the Satyricon, by Petronius.
Top 4 Product
A look at the life, death, and military and political career of Gaius Julius Caesar, from a modern perspective.
Top 5 Legendary Heroes Greek Myth for Kids Books
Books for children, by modern writers and illustrators, retelling the ancient tales of the legendary heroes from Greek mythology. Such mythological heroes include Odysseus, Hercules, and Theseus. Authors include the D'Aulaires and Jane Yolen.
Top 7 product
Since so little remains of the writing of ancient Greek and Roman women, most of our information about them is inferred from what men say about them or what we can see on artwork. Starting with Sarah Pomeroy, feminist scholars have been trying to categorize the places of women in society.
Top 4 Historical Fiction on Roman Britain by Jack Whyte
Historical fiction books on Roman Britain, about Merlin and Arthur, known as the Dream of Eagles or Camulod Chronicles, by Jack Whyte.
Top 4 Cleopatra in the Movies
Movies about Cleopatra VII the last pharaoh of Egypt and the subject of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and George Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra in DVD and VHS format.
Top 7 Steven Saylor's Historical Mysteries
Roman mysteries by Steven Saylor, featuring Gordianus the Finder. The Roma sub rosa Roman mysteries by Steven Saylor present sequential capsules of the history of the end of the Roman republic.
Top 7 Books Selected by Readers
Books recommended by readers of the Ancient / Classical History site.
Top 5 Historical Fiction Featuring Publius Clodius Pulcher
Historical Fiction of the late Roman Republican Period must generally deal with the wak left by Publius Clodius Pulcher of Bona Dea fame. The brother of Catullus' lover Lesbia, Clodius Pulcher was ridiculed in his own day. A not terribly sympathetic character, Clodius Pulcher usually ends up responsible for plot development in modern historical fiction.
Top 4 Books on Mythological Creatures
Mythological creatures described in books. Pictures and transfers of creature from mythology.
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