Guide to Greece: Central Greece (Guide to Greece, 1 of 2) (book 1, 2, 7, 9, 10)
10 best books like Guide to Greece: Central Greece (Guide to Greece, 1 of 2) (book 1, 2, 7, 9, 10) (Pausanias): The Agricola and The Germania, A History of My Times, The Civil Wars, The Later Roman Empire (A.D. 354-378), The Campaigns of Alexander, The Rise of the Roman Empire, The Age of Alexander: Nine Greek Lives (Agesilaus, Pelopidas, Dion, Timoleon, Demosthenes, Phocion, Alexander, Demetrius, Pyrrhus), Leucippe and Clitophon, Chattering Courtesans and Other Sardonic Sketches, Fourteen Byzantine Rulers: The Chronographia of Michael Psellus
| Author | Tacitus |
| ISBN | 0140442413 |
The Agricola is both a portrait of Julius Agricola - the most famous governor of Roman Britain and Tacitus' well-loved and respected father-in-law - and the first detailed account of Britain that has come down to us. It offers fascinating descriptions of the geography, climate and peoples of the country,...
| Author | Xenophon |
| ISBN | 0140441751 |
Thucydides' magisterial history told of the unhappy conflict of Greeks against the Greeks in the Peloponnesian War, but his narrative broke off in 411 B.C., seven years before the end, and Greeks were to continue fighting one another for many more years. Xenophon continues the account to 362 B.C. These...
| Author | Appian |
| ISBN | 0140445099 |
Appian's Civil Wars offers a masterly account of the turbulent epoch from the time of Tiberius Gracchus (133 BC) to the tremendous conflicts which followed the murder of Julius Caesar. For the events between 133 and 70 BC he is the only surviving continuous narrative source. The subsequent books vividly...
| Author | Ammianus Marcellinus |
| ISBN | 0140444068 |
He was not a professional man of letters but an army officer of Greek origin born at Antioch and contemporary with the events described in what remains of his work. He set himself the task of continuing the histories of Tacitus from A.D. 96 down to his own day. The first thirteen of his thirty-one books are...
| Author | Arrian |
| ISBN | 0140442537 |
'His passion was for glory only, and in that he was insatiable'Although written over four hundred years after Alexander’s death, Arrian’s Campaigns of Alexander is the most reliable account of the man and his achievements we have. Arrian’s own experience as a military commander gave him unique...
| Author | Polybius |
| ISBN | 0140443622 |
Polybius, himself a Greek and an active contemporary participant in political relations with Rome, wrote the forty books of his Universal History primarily to chronicle and account for the Roman conquest of Greece between 200 and 167 B.C. He saw that Mediterranean history, under Rome's influence,...
| Author | Plutarch |
| ISBN | 0140442863 |
Spengler once wrote that Mozart would cease to be heard not when his music was no longer played, but when its meaning was no longer understood. Something of this fate is also shared by Plutarch in an age where the study of history remains distorted by positivist ideology (see some other reviews on this...
| Author | Achilles Tatius |
| ISBN | 0192804278 |
Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Clitophon is the most bizarre and risque of the five "Greek novels" of idealized love between boy and girl that survive from the time of the Roman empire. Stretching the capacity of the genre to its limits, Achilles' narrative covers adultery, violence, disembowelment,...
Chattering Courtesans and Other Sardonic Sketches
| Author | Lucian of Samosata |
| ISBN | 0140447024 |
A Greek-educated Syrian, Lucian wrote witty pieces that demonstrate a profound skepticism for religion and philosophy and encourage honest living and good sense. “Chattering Courtesans” is a series of short dialogues in which the amusing gossip of “kept women” gives rise to a discussion...
| Author | Michael Psellus |
| ISBN | 0140441697 |
A very readable translation of a memoir/history written roughly a thousand years ago, by a Byzantine scholar and government functionary who, through the vagaries of his near-century of life and service, witnessed, sometimes firsthand, the reigns and deaths of an ungodly number of succeeding Byzantine...
Pliny’s Natural History is an astonishingly ambitious work that ranges from astronomy to art and from geography to zoology. Mingling acute observation with often wild speculation, it offers a fascinating view of the world as it was understood in the first century AD, whether describing the danger...
| Author | Marcus Tullius Cicero |
Cicero was still in his twenties when he got Sextus Roscius off a charge of murdering his father and nearly sixty when he defended King Deiotarus, accused of trying to murder Caesar. In between (with, among others, his speeches for Cluentius and Rabirius), he built a reputation as the greatest orator...
Travel in the Ancient World
| Author | Lionel Casson |
| ISBN | 0801848083 |
The only book of its kind in any language, Travel in the Ancient World offers a lively, comprehensive history of ancient travel, from the first Egyptian voyages recorded in Old Kingdom inscriptions through Greek and Roman times to the Christian pilgrimages of the fourth and sixth centuries. Rich in...
| Author | Seneca |
| ISBN | 0140441743 |
Based on the legends used in Greek drama, Seneca's plays are notable for the exuberant ruthlessness with which disastrous events are foretold and then pursued to their tragic and often bloodthirsty ends. Thyestes depicts the menace of an ancestral curse hanging over two feuding brothers, while Phaedra...
Books VI-X of Livy's monumental work trace Rome's fortunes from its near collapse after defeat by the Gauls in 386 bc to its emergence, in a matter of decades, as the premier power in Italy, having conquered the city-state of Samnium in 293 bc. In this fascinating history, events are described not simply...
| Author | Sallust |
| ISBN | 0140441328 |
"The Conspiracy of Catiline" (his first published work) contains the history of the memorable year 63. Sallust adopts the usually accepted view of Catiline, and describes him as the deliberate foe of law, order and morality, and does not give a comprehensive explanation of his views and intentions....
| Author | Scriptores Historiae Augustae |
| ISBN | 0140443088 |
One of the most controversial of all works to survive from ancient Rome, the Augustan History is our main source of information about the Roman emperors from 117 to 284 AD. Written in the late fourth century by an anonymous author, it is an enigmatic combination of truth, invention and humour. This volume...
| Author | Quintus Curtius Rufus |
| ISBN | 0140444122 |
The essential history of Alexander the Great, compelling and brilliantly realized
Alexander the Great (356-323 BC), who led the Macedonian army to victory in Egypt, Syria, Persia and India, was perhaps the most successful conqueror the world has ever seen. Yet although no other individual...
Read the Bldg Blog interview with Mary Beard about the Wonders of the World series (Part I and Part II)
Oscar Wilde compared it to a white goddess, Evelyn Waugh to Stilton cheese. In observers from Lord Byron to Sigmund Freud to Virginia Woolf it met with astonishment, rapture, poetry, even tears--and,...
| Author | Marilyn B. Skinner |
| ISBN | 0631232346 |
Sexuality in Greek and Roman Culture is the first comprehensive survey of ancient Greek and Roman sexuality.
Covers a wide range of subjects, including Greek pederasty and the symposium, ancient prostitution, representations of women in Greece and Rome, and the public regulation of sexual...
