The Age of Caesar: Five Roman Lives
By: Plutarch
4.08
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
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1. Alexander the Great
By: Philip Freeman
4.31
Format: 391 pages, Hardcover
In the first authoritative biography of Alexander the Great written for a general audience in a gen… read more
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- historical
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2. Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
By: Tom Holland
4.16
Format: 418 pages, Hardcover
In the fifth century BC, a global superpower was determined to bring truth and order to what it reg… read more
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- history
- historical
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
3. Roadside Picnic
By: Theodore Sturgeon , Arkady Strugatsky , Boris Strugatsky , Antonina W. Bouis , None
4.14
Format: 145 pages, Paperback
Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger,… read more
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- classics
"Keep your head high,"-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic
"Los halagos son el bálsamo de los complejos."-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic
"You need money so you don’t have to think about money."-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic
"Щастие за всички даром и нека никой да не бъде пренебрегнат!"-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic
4. The Twelve Caesars
By: Robert Graves , Michael Grant , Suetonius
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, Suetonius gained access to the imperial archives and u… read more
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- historical
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- nonfiction
5. Caesar's Legion: The Epic Saga of Julius Caesar's Elite Tenth Legion and the Armies of Rome
By: Stephen Dando-Collins , None
2.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
A unique and splendidly researched story, following the trials and triumphs of Julius Caesar's Legi… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
- ancient history
6. The Bacchae
By: Euripides , Kenneth McLeish , None
3.92
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Euripides' classic drama about the often mortifying consequences of the unbridled--and frequently h… read more
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- classics
"Cleverness is not wisdom."-Euripides, The Bacchae
"He who believes needs no explanation."-Euripides, The Bacchae
"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."-Euripides, The Bacchae
"Prepare yourselves for the roaring voice of the God of Joy!"-Euripides, The Bacchae
7. The Rise of the Roman Empire
By: Polybius , Ian Scott-Kilvert , None , F.W. Walbank
4.18
Format: 306 pages,
Polybius, himself a Greek and an active contemporary participant in political relations with Rome, … read more
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- ancient history
- nonfiction
- classics
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8. The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller
By: Carlo Ginzburg , John Tedeschi , Anne Tedeschi
3.57
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The Cheese and the Worms is a study of the popular culture in the sixteenth century as seen through… read more
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- history
9. The Iliad of Homer (The Great Courses, #301)
By: Elizabeth Vandiver
4.61
Format: 192 pages, Audio CD
When John Keats first read Chapman's translation of the epics of "deep-brow'd Homer," he was so ove… read more
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10. The Assassination Of Julius Caesar: A People's History Of Ancient Rome
By: Michael Parenti
4.10
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
Most historians, both ancient and modern, have viewed the Late Republic of Rome through the eyes of… read more
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- ancient history
- nonfiction
11. Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
By: Aeschylus , Patricia E. Easterling , John Harrison , Judith Affleck , None
3.83
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this se… read more
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- ancient history
- classics
"Every medicine is vain."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"A curse burns bright on crime."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"There is no avoidance in delay."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"In war, the first casualty is truth."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
12. Emperors of Rome
By: Garrett G. Fagan
3.86
Format: 256 pages, Audible Audio
Course Lecture Titles 1. The Shape of Roman Imperial History 2. The Roman Republic 3. Caesar and th… read more
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13. Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician
By: Anthony Everitt
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
"All ages of the world have not produced a greater statesman and philosopher combined." --John Adam… read more
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14. Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the War for Crown and Empire
By: James Romm
3.33
Format: None pages,
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15. Starship Troopers
By: Robert A. Heinlein
4.01
Format: 264 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The historians can’t seem to settle whether to call this one "The Third Space War" (or the fourth),… read more
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- classics
- audiobook
"To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster."-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers
"Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor."-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers
"But, do you know, once you get used to it's rather cute. I mean, if a girl looks alright to start with, she still looks alright with her head smooth."-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers
"When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived."-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers
16. Homeric Hymns
By: Homer , Jules Cashford , None
4.44
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Composed for recitation at festivals, these 33 songs were written in honour of the gods and goddess… read more
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17. The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
By: Dan Jones
3.25
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
The first Plantagenet king inherited a blood-soaked kingdom from the Normans and transformed it int… read more
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18. Saint Thomas Aquinas
By: G.K. Chesterton , Anton C. Pegis
4.45
Format: None pages, Paperback
G.K. Chesterton's brilliant sketch of the life and thought of Thomas Aquinas is as relevant today a… read more
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19. Kissinger
By: Walter Isaacson
4.33
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
By the time Henry Kissinger was made secretary of state in 1973, he had become, according to the Ga… read more
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20. History of the Peloponnesian War
By: Thucydides , Moses I. Finley , Rex Warner
3.94
Format: 648 pages, Paperback
Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the lo… read more
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"Friendship or enmity is everywhere an affair of time and circumstance"-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
21. The Long Ships
By: Frans G. Bengtsson , Michael Meyer
3.47
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The book is set in the late 10th century & follows the adventures of Orm ("serpent"), called "Red" … read more
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22. The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone (The Theban Plays, #1–3)
By: Sophocles , Robert Fitzgerald , Dudley Fitts , None
5.00
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
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23. Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine
By: Barry S. Strauss
3.97
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Barry Strauss tells the story of the Roman Empire from rise to reinvention, from Augustus, who foun… read more
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- audiobook
24. Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient World
By: Philip Matyszak
4.14
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The ancient world of the Mediterranean and the Near East saw the birth and collapse of great civili… read more
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- history
- historical
- ancient history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Phoenicians pioneered a new style of writing that reproduced not images of the things described but the sounds used for them in speech--the first alphabetic script, As trade developed, writing became…"-Philip Matyszak, Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient World
25. Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire
By: Eckart Frahm
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
A new history of Assyria, the ancient civilization that set the model for future empires At its … read more
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26. Crassus: The First Tycoon
By: Peter Stothard
3.56
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
The story of Rome’s richest man, who died a humiliating desert death in search of military glory … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
27. Immer dieser Michel (Emil i Lönneberga #1-3)
By: Astrid Lindgren
4.42
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
Michel, fünf Jahre alt und stark wie ein kleiner Ochse, lebt auf dem Hof Katthult in Lönneberga, da… read more
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- audiobook
28. The History and Achievements of the Islamic Golden Age
By: Eamonn Gearon
4.08
Format: 12 pages, Audible Audio
11 hours 58 mins The study of Western Civilization traditionally follows a well-known but incomp… read more
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29. The Age of Caesar: Five Roman Lives
By: Plutarch
4.08
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
“Plutarch regularly shows that great leaders transcend their own purely material interests and pett… read more
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30. Brutus: The Noble Conspirator
By: Kathryn Tempest
3.96
Format: 314 pages, Hardcover
Conspirator and assassin, philosopher and statesman, promoter of peace and commander in war, Marcus… read more
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31. Greece Against Rome: The Fall of the Hellenistic Kingdoms 250–31 BC
By: Philip Matyszak
4.37
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Towards the middle of the third century BC, the Hellenistic kingdoms (the fragments of Alexander th… read more
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