5 Top history books like The Histories by Agathias

Cover of The Histories by Agathias

The Histories

By: Agathias

3.83

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

(Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae Series Berolinensis)

If you liked the history plot in The Histories by Agathias , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of The Way Things Are by Rolfe Humphries, Lucretius

1. The Way Things Are

By: Rolfe Humphries , Lucretius

3.97

Format: 265 pages, Paperback

..". [captures] the relentless urgency of Lucretius' didacticism, his passionate conviction and pro… read more

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"There can be no centre in infinity."

-Rolfe Humphries, The Way Things Are

"Nothing exists but amalgams of matter and space."

-Rolfe Humphries, The Way Things Are

"Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated."

-Rolfe Humphries, The Way Things Are

"For whatever changes and leaves its natural bounds is instant death of that which was before."

-Rolfe Humphries, The Way Things Are

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2. The World of Late Antiquity

By: None , Peter Brown

4.09

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

This remarkable study in social and cultural change explains how and why the Late Antique world, be… read more

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3. Count Belisarius

By: Robert Graves

3.65

Format: None pages,

The sixth century was not a peaceful time for the Roman empire. Invaders threatened on all fronties… read more

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4. Sasanian Persia: The Rise and Fall of an Empire

By: Touraj Daryaee

3.99

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The Sasanians were the last of the ancient Persian dynasties, and the largest empire to espouse Zor… read more

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Cover of Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, Martin Hammond, Diskin Clay

5. Meditations

By: Marcus Aurelius , Martin Hammond , Diskin Clay

3.75

Format: 148 pages,

Written in Greek, without any intention of publication, by the only Roman emperor who was also a ph… read more

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6. The Complete Plays

By: Paul Roche , Sophocles

4.10

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Here in one volume are the full texts of the seven extant plays of the Greek playwright Sophocles, … read more

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7. Notes from Underground

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Norman Dietz , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky , Boris de Schlœzer , Emanuela Guercetti , None , Donald Fanger , None , None , None

4.17

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between ninet… read more

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"l'homme de la nature et de la verite"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

"I'll go this minute!' Of course, I remained."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

"إذ ما العذاب والألم ... سوى المحرك الوحيد للوعي."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

"To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

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8. The Histories

By: Agathias

3.83

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

(Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae Series Berolinensis) read more

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15 Best fiction books like Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Norman Dietz, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky, Boris de Schlœzer, Emanuela Guercetti, Donald Fanger

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Nausea

Jean-Paul Sartre , Lloyd Alexander , Hayden Carruth

3.94

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The Stranger

Albert Camus , Matthew Ward , Stuart Gilbert , None

4.02

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The Overcoat

Nikolai Gogol

4.15

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Dead Souls

Nikolai Gogol , Robert A. Maguire

3.98

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