8 best-selling ancient history books like Julius Caesar and the Roman People by Robert Morstein-Marx

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Julius Caesar and the Roman People

By: Robert Morstein-Marx

4.83

Format: 700 pages, Hardcover

Julius Caesar was no aspiring autocrat seeking to realize the imperial future but an unusually succ…

If you liked the ancient history plot in Julius Caesar and the Roman People by Robert Morstein-Marx , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland

1. Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

By: Tom Holland

4.22

Format: 408 pages, Paperback

In 49 B.C., the seven hundred fifth year since the founding of Rome, Julius Caesar crossed a small … read more

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  • ancient history
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Achievement was worthy of praise and honor, but excessive achievement was pernicious and a threat to the state. However great a citizen might become, however great he might wish to become, the truest…"

-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

"Enthusiasts for empire argued that Rome had a civilizing mission; that because her values and institutions were self-evidently superior to those of barbarians, she had a duty to propagate them; that …"

-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

"Honour, in the Republic, had never been a goal in itself, only a means to an infinite end. And what was true of her citizens, naturally, was also true of Rome herself. For the generation that had liv…"

-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

"It was an article of faith to the Romans that they were the most morally upright people in the world. How else was the size of their empire to be explained? Yet they also knew that the Republic's gre…"

-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

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2. Imperial China, 900–1800

By: Frederick W. Mote

4.41

Format: 1128 pages, Paperback

This is a history of China for the 900-year time span of the late imperial period. A senior scholar… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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3. Lysistrata

By: Aristophanes , Sarah Ruden

3.87

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

Aristophanes' comic masterpiece of war and sex remains one of the greatest plays ever written. Led … read more

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"Sənət çörək arxasınca qaçarsa, alçalar"

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Lysistrata: To seize the treasury; no more money, no more war."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Queste donne micidiali, non si può vivere nè con loro nè senza di loro."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without 'em."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

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4. The Grass Crown (Masters of Rome, #2)

By: Colleen McCullough

3.67

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

In this great drama, Marius, the general who saved Rome from barbarian invasion and became consul a… read more

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  • ancient history

5. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

By: Max Brooks

4.40

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of… read more

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6. Catch-22

By: Joseph Heller

3.99

Format: 453 pages, Paperback

Fifty years after its original publication, Catch-22 remains a cornerstone of American literature a… read more

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"Nately had a bad start. He came from a good family."

-Joseph Heller, Catch-22

"When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective."

-Joseph Heller, Catch-22

"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you."

-Joseph Heller, Catch-22

"They’re not going to send a crazy man out to be killed, are they?"

-Joseph Heller, Catch-22

7. The Death of Caesar: The Story of History’s Most Famous Assassination

By: Barry S. Strauss

3.79

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

In this story of the most famous assassination in history, "the last bloody day of the [Roman] Repu… read more

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8. The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic

By: Mike Duncan

4.00

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

The Roman Republic was one of the most remarkable achievements in the history of civilization. Afte… read more

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9. Cat's Cradle

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

4.29

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Told with deadpan humour & bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on o… read more

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10. The Iliad

By: Homer

3.91

Format: 848 pages, Hardcover

One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkes… read more

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"I say no wealth is worth my life."

-Homer, The Iliad

"These were the colloquies in heaven."

-Homer, The Iliad

"The sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return."

-Homer, The Iliad

"Antilochus! You're the most appalling driver in the world! Go to hell!"

-Homer, The Iliad

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11. Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay

By: Craig L. Symonds

4.65

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

From one of our most distinguished naval historians, the first wartime biography in a half-century … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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12. The Landmark Julius Caesar: The Complete Works

By: Gaius Julius Caesar

4.48

Format: 793 pages, Hardcover

Gallic War - Civil War - Alexandrian War - African War - Spanish War Between 58 and 50 B.C., Cae… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • ancient history
  • nonfiction
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13. The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics

By: Mae M. Ngai

4.08

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

In roughly five decades, between 1848 and 1899, more gold was removed from the earth than had been … read more

Similar categories in Mae M. Ngai's The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics book and Robert Morstein-Marx's Julius Caesar and the Roman People

  • nonfiction
  • history
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14. Becoming Roman: The Origins of Provincial Civilization in Gaul

By: Greg Woolf

3.80

Format: 316 pages, Paperback

This book studies the processes conventionally termed "Romanization" through an analysis of the exp… read more

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  • ancient history
  • nonfiction
  • history
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15. Cato the Younger: Life and Death at the End of the Roman Republic

By: Fred K. Drogula

4.06

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

Marcus Porcius Cato ("the Younger") is most famous for being Julius Caesar's nemesis. His sustained… read more

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  • ancient history
  • history
  • biography
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16. Julius Caesar and the Roman People

By: Robert Morstein-Marx

4.83

Format: 700 pages, Hardcover

Julius Caesar was no aspiring autocrat seeking to realize the imperial future but an unusually succ… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • ancient history
  • nonfiction
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17. Commanders and Command in the Roman Republic and Early Empire (Studies in the History of Greece and Rome)

By: Fred K. Drogula

4.60

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

In this work, Fred Drogula studies the development of Roman provincial command using the terms and … read more

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  • history
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18. War and Society in Early Rome: From Warlords to Generals

By: Jeremy Armstrong

4.38

Format: 332 pages, Hardcover

This book combines the rich, but problematic, literary tradition for early Rome with the ever-growi… read more

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  • ancient history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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19. Peasants, Citizens and Soldiers: Studies in the Demographic History of Roman Italy 225 BC–AD 100

By: Luuk de Ligt

4.33

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

Recent years have witnessed an intense debate concerning the size of the population of Roman Italy.… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Rome at War: Farms, Families and Death in the Middle Republic (Studies in the History of Greece and Rome) by Nathan Rosenstein

20. Rome at War: Farms, Families and Death in the Middle Republic (Studies in the History of Greece and Rome)

By: Nathan Rosenstein

4.27

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

In 133 BC the tribune Tiberius Gracchus issued his lex agraria to redistribute land amongst veteran… read more

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  • ancient history
  • nonfiction
  • history
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21. Early Rome to 290 BC: The Beginnings of the City and the Rise of the Republic (The Edinburgh History of Ancient Rome)

By: Guy Bradley

4.33

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A new view of early Rome as a highly mobile society within a wider interconnected Mediterranean net… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction

12 Best history books like Julius Caesar and the Roman People by Robert Morstein-Marx

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Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

Tom Holland

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Imperial China, 900–1800

Frederick W. Mote

4.41

Transform Your Habits

Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay

Craig L. Symonds

4.65

Transform Your Habits

The Landmark Julius Caesar: The Complete Works

Gaius Julius Caesar

4.48

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Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)

Sophocles , J.E. Thomas , Elizabeth Osborne

4.00

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The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

Robert Fagles , Aeschylus , William Bedell Stanford

4.01

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Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra , Roberto González Echevarría , John Rutherford

3.66

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The Divine Comedy

Dante Alighieri , Eugenio Montale , Allen Mandelbaum

4.29

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