10 Top nonfiction books like The Wars of Justinian by Procopius, Anthony Kaldellis, H.B. Dewing

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The Wars of Justinian

By: Procopius , Anthony Kaldellis , None , None , H.B. Dewing

3.82

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

A fully-outfitted edition of Prokopios' late Antique masterpiece of military history and ethnograph…

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1. Fragments

By: James Hillman , Heraclitus , Brooks Haxton

4.18

Format: 97 pages, Paperback

Fragments of wisdom from the ancient world In the sixth century b.c.—twenty-five hundred years b… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • classics
  • history
"All is flux"

-James Hillman, Fragments

"Character is destiny"

-James Hillman, Fragments

"I went in search of myself."

-James Hillman, Fragments

"Man's character is his fate."

-James Hillman, Fragments

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2. The Erotic Poems

By: Ovid , Peter Green

4.07

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

This collection of Ovid’s poems deals with the whole spectrum of sexual desire, ranging from deeply… read more

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  • classics
"Brass shines with constant usage, a beautiful dress needs wearing, Leave a house empty, it rots."

-Ovid, The Erotic Poems

"Love is a child and naked; he has years that know no meanness, and he has no clothes, so that he is open in his ways."

-Ovid, The Erotic Poems

"All right, boy, skewer me. I've dropped my defenses, I'm an easy victim. Why, by now Your arrows practically know their own way to the target And feel less at home in their quiver than in me."

-Ovid, The Erotic Poems

"I got nervous at bulls and eagles, Trying to figure what shape Zeus might take for sex When it could be your turn next. But now I don't care any longer, I've come to my senses, your profile leaves me…"

-Ovid, The Erotic Poems

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3. 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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  • medieval
  • nonfiction
  • classics
  • history
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4. Yvain, or, The Knight with the Lion

By: Chrétien de Troyes , Ruth Harwood Cline

3.56

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

This verse translation of Yvain; or, The Knight with the Lion brings to life a fast-paced yet remar… read more

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  • medieval
  • classics
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5. The Alexiad

By: Anna Comnena , E.R.A. Sewter

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

This is one of the fundamental sources of information on chivalry as well as many other interesting… read more

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  • medieval
  • nonfiction
  • classics
  • history
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6. The Later Roman Empire (A.D. 354-378)

By: Ammianus Marcellinus , Walter Hamilton , Andrew Wallace-Hadrill

4.50

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

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  • nonfiction
  • classics
  • history
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7. Conversations of Socrates

By: Xenophon , Robin Waterfield , Hugh Tredennick

4.11

Format: 559 pages, Paperback

After the execution of Socrates in 399 BC, a number of his followers wrote dialogues featuring him … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • classics
  • history
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8. The Wars of Justinian

By: Procopius , Anthony Kaldellis , None , None , H.B. Dewing

3.82

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

A fully-outfitted edition of Prokopios' late Antique masterpiece of military history and ethnograph… read more

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  • classics
  • history
  • military history
  • nonfiction
  • medieval
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9. The Trial and Death of Socrates

By: Plato , G.M.A. Grube , John M. Cooper

3.63

Format: 224 pages,

The third edition of The Trial and Death of Socratespresents G. M. A. Grube's distinguished transla… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • classics
  • history
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10. The Epic of Gilgamesh

By: Anonymous , N.K. Sandars

3.74

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilg… read more

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  • classics
"As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind."

-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

"Now let the gate of sorrow be closed behind me, and let it be sealed with tar and pitch."

-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

"When all the illusions of personal immortality are stripped away, there is only the act to maintain the freedom to act."

-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

"Gilgamesh was called a god and a man; Enkidu was an animal and a man. It is the story of their becoming human together."

-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

11. Youth

By: Joseph Conrad

3.50

Format: 519 pages, Paperback

"Youth" is an autobiographical short story by Joseph Conrad. Written in 1898, it was first publishe… read more

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12. The Aeneid

By: Virgil , Robert Fitzgerald

4.50

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

The Aeneid (play /@'ni:Id/; Latin: Aeneis [aj'ne:is]--the title is Greek in form: genitive case Aen… read more

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13. Fourteen Byzantine Rulers: The Chronographia of Michael Psellus

By: E.R.A. Sewter , None

3.67

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

This chronicle of the Byzantine Empire, beginning in 1025, shows a profound understanding of the po… read more

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14. The Nicomachean Ethics

By: Aristotle , Jonathan Barnes , None , Hugh Tredennick

3.99

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

‘One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brie… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • classics
  • history
"Philosophy can make people sick."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

"A man without regrets cannot be cured."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

"Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

"The beginning seems to be more than half of the whole."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

15. The Chronicle of Theophanes: Anni Mundi 6095-6305 (A.D. 602-813)

By: None

3.51

Format: None pages, Paperback

The most important illuminating source that survived from the two centuries termed "the dark ages o… read more

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16. Digenis Akritas: Two-Blood Border Lord

By: Unknown , Denison B. Hull

2.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Among the epic romances of post-Barbarian Europe, such as Rolandand El Cid, Digenis Akritashas been… read more

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17. 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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  • nonfiction
  • classics
  • history
"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

18. The Odyssey

By: Homer , Robert Fagles , Bernard Knox , E.V. Rieu , None

3.53

Format: 349 pages, Paperback

Literature's grandest evocation of life's journey, at once an ageless human story and an individual… read more

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19. The Agricola and The Germania

By: Tacitus , S.A. Handford , Harold Mattingly

3.94

Format: 229 pages,

The portrait of Tacitus' father-in-law, Agricola, is a eulogistic description of the career of the … read more

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20. The Republic

By: Plato , Desmond Lee

3.96

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • classics
  • history
"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."

-Plato, The Republic

"The comprehensive mind is always dialectical."

-Plato, The Republic

"Those who don't know must learn from those who do."

-Plato, The Republic

"The beginning is the most important part of the work."

-Plato, The Republic

21. A Short History of Byzantium

By: John Julius Norwich

4.01

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

"Norwich is always on the lookout for the small but revealing details. . . . All of this he recount… read more

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13 must-read classics books like The Wars of Justinian by Procopius, Anthony Kaldellis, H.B. Dewing

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Fragments

James Hillman , Heraclitus , Brooks Haxton

4.18

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The Erotic Poems

Ovid , Peter Green

4.07

Transform Your Habits

The World of Late Antiquity

None , Peter Brown

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Yvain, or, The Knight with the Lion

Chrétien de Troyes , Ruth Harwood Cline

3.56

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15 Best classics books like History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Moses I. Finley, Rex Warner

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The Histories

Herodotus , Aubrey de Sélincourt , John M. Marincola

4.01

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Lysistrata

Aristophanes , Sarah Ruden

3.87

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The Conquest of Gaul

S.A. Handford , Gaius Julius Caesar , Jane F. Gardner , Aulus Hirtius

4.11

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The Twelve Caesars

Robert Graves , Michael Grant , Suetonius

4.33

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