13 Best nonfiction books like The Twelve Caesars by Robert Graves, Michael Grant, Suetonius

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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…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Twelve Caesars by Robert Graves, Michael Grant, Suetonius , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. The Histories

By: Herodotus , Aubrey de Sélincourt , John M. Marincola

4.01

Format: 716 pages, Paperback

David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the pecul… read more

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  • classics
  • history
  • historical
  • ancient history
  • ancient
  • nonfiction
"Hippocleides doesn't care."

-Herodotus, The Histories

"So much, then, for the fish."

-Herodotus, The Histories

"La muerte es para el hombre el más deseado refugio."

-Herodotus, The Histories

"Muchos hombres opulentos son desdichados, y muchos que tienen hacienda moderada son dichosos."

-Herodotus, The Histories

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2. 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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  • classics
  • history
  • historical
  • ancient history
  • ancient
  • 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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3. Augustus: First Emperor of Rome

By: Adrian Goldsworthy

4.28

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

The dramatic story of Augustus, Rome’s first emperor, who plunged into Rome’s violent power struggl… read more

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  • classics
  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • ancient history
  • nonfiction
"Personal hatreds and rivalry loomed larger in most senator's minds than the good of the Republic. [A big problem then and now]"

-Adrian Goldsworthy, Augustus: First Emperor of Rome

"For what is the life of a man, if it is not interwoven with the life of former generations by as sense of history. [Cicero, quoted by Goldsworthy in his Augustus]"

-Adrian Goldsworthy, Augustus: First Emperor of Rome

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4. The Fall of the Roman Republic

By: Plutarch , Rex Warner , Robin Seager

4.10

Format: 414 pages, Paperback

Rome's famed historian illuminates the twilight of the old Roman Republic from 157 to 43 BC in succ… read more

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  • classics
  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • ancient history
  • ancient
  • nonfiction
"Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself."

-Plutarch, The Fall of the Roman Republic

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5. How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower

By: Adrian Goldsworthy

4.00

Format: 4 pages, Hardcover

In AD 200, the Roman Empire seemed unassailable, its vast territory accounting for most of the know… read more

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  • ancient history
  • nonfiction
  • history
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6. The Conquest of Gaul

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

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

The earliest eye-witness account of Britain and its inhabitants appears in these famous memoirs. Be… read more

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  • classics
  • biography
  • history
  • ancient history
  • nonfiction
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7. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

By: Mary Beard

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

New York TimesBestseller * National Book Critics Circle Finalist * Wall Street JournalBest Books of… read more

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  • classics
  • history
  • historical
  • ancient history
  • nonfiction
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8. 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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  • classics
  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • ancient history
  • ancient
  • nonfiction
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9. The Early History of Rome (The History of Rome, #1-5)

By: Livy , Aubrey de Sélincourt , Robert Maxwell Ogilvie , None

2.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Livy (c. 59 BC-AD 17) dedicated most of his life to writing some 142 volumes of history, the first … read more

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  • classics
  • history
  • ancient history
  • ancient
  • nonfiction
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10. 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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  • classics
  • history
  • ancient history
  • ancient
  • nonfiction
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11. The Annals of Imperial Rome

By: Michael Grant , Tacitus

4.33

Format: 25 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In "The Annals of Imperial Rome", his last and greatest work, Tacitus (AD c.55-c.117) covers the pe… read more

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  • classics
  • history
  • historical
  • ancient history
  • ancient
  • nonfiction
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12. I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)

By: Robert Graves

3.44

Format: 347 pages, Paperback

From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54. Set in the… read more

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  • historical
  • classics

13. The Civil War

By: Gaius Julius Caesar , Jane F. Gardner

3.36

Format: None pages, Paperback

A military leader of legendary genius, Caesar was also a great writer, recording the events of his … read more

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14. Caesar: Life of a Colossus

By: Adrian Goldsworthy

4.22

Format: 583 pages, Hardcover

Tracing the extraordinary trajectory of the great Roman emperor’s life, Goldsworthy covers not only… read more

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  • classics
  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • ancient history
  • ancient
  • nonfiction
"Caesar was a serial seducer of married women."

-Adrian Goldsworthy, Caesar: Life of a Colossus

"Pompey contented himself with repulsing the attack and made no attempt to assault Caesar's line. This was widely felt to have been a mistake... and Caesar declared that the enemy 'would have won toda…"

-Adrian Goldsworthy, Caesar: Life of a Colossus

15. 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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16. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I

By: Edward Gibbon , David Womersley

4.20

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Edward Gibbon's six-volume History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire(1776-88) is among th… read more

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17. The Letters of the Younger Pliny

By: Betty Radice , Pliny the Younger

3.91

Format: None pages,

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18. Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina (Claudius, #2)

By: Robert Graves , Seneca , Suetonius

4.30

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

Robert Graves begins anew the tumultuous life of the Roman who became emperor in spite of himself. … read more

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19. 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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  • classics
  • history
  • ancient history
  • ancient
  • nonfiction
"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

20. 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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21. Lives of the Later Caesars

By: Unknown , Anthony R. Birley

3.94

Format: 313 pages, Paperback

One of the most controversial of all works to survive from ancient Rome, the Augustan History is ou… read more

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13 must-read classics books like The Twelve Caesars by Robert Graves, Michael Grant, Suetonius

Transform Your Habits

The Histories

Herodotus , Aubrey de Sélincourt , John M. Marincola

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

Tom Holland

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Augustus: First Emperor of Rome

Adrian Goldsworthy

4.28

Transform Your Habits

The Fall of the Roman Republic

Plutarch , Rex Warner , Robin Seager

4.10

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

Transform Your Habits

The Histories

Herodotus , Aubrey de Sélincourt , John M. Marincola

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Lysistrata

Aristophanes , Sarah Ruden

3.87

Transform Your Habits

The Conquest of Gaul

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

4.11

Transform Your Habits

The Twelve Caesars

Robert Graves , Michael Grant , Suetonius

4.33

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