Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome
10 best books like Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome (Anthony Everitt): Rome and Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancient Civilizations, Marcus Aurelius, Caesar: A Biography, The Roman Revolution, The Last Pagan: Julian the Apostate and the Death of the Ancient World, Caesar's Legion: The Epic Saga of Julius Caesar's Elite Tenth Legion and the Armies of Rome, The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy, Murder Trials, Chronicle of the Roman Republic: The Rulers of Ancient Rome from Romulus to Augustus, The Spartacus War
| Author | Martin Goodman |
| ISBN | 0375411852 |
A magisterial history of the titanic struggle between the Roman and Jewish worlds that led to the destruction of Jerusalem.
In 70 C.E., after a four-year war, three Roman legions besieged and eventually devastated Jerusalem, destroying Herod’s magnificent Temple. Sixty years later,...
| Author | Frank McLynn |
| ISBN | 0224072927 |
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The vivid, magisterial and long-awaited biography of Marcus Aurelius — the last of the “five good emperors” of the Roman Empire.
Emperor Marcus Aurelius — the embodiment of the philosopher’s...
As politician and diplomat, writer and lover, but above all as a military genius, Julius Caesar is one of the perennially fascinating figures in history—Boswell called him ”the greatest man of any age.” Christian Meier's authoritative and accessible biography is the definitive modern account...
| Author | Ronald Syme |
| ISBN | 0192803204 |
The Roman Revolution is a profound and unconventional treatment of a great theme - the fall of the Republic and the decline of freedom in Rome between 60 BC and AD 14, and the rise to power of the greatest of the Roman Emperors, Augustus. The transformation of state and society, the violent transference...
| Author | Adrian Murdoch |
| ISBN | 0750932953 |
Since his death on a Persian battlefield in A.D. 363, the violent end of the Emperor Julian has become synonymous with the death of paganism. But how did a young philosopher-warrior, who ruled for only eighteen months, come to be seen as one of the most potent threats to Christianity?
Driven...
| Author | Stephen Dando-Collins |
| ISBN | 0471686131 |
A unique and splendidly researched story, following the trials and triumphs of Julius Caesar's Legio X-arguably the most famous legion of its day-from its activation to the slogging battle of Munda and from Thapsus, Caesar's tactical masterpiece, to the grim siege of the Jewish fortress of Masada....
| Author | Adrienne Mayor |
| ISBN | 0691126836 |
Machiavelli praised his military genius. European royalty sought out his secret elixir against poison. His life inspired Mozart's first opera, while for centuries poets and playwrights recited bloody, romantic tales of his victories, defeats, intrigues, concubines, and mysterious death....
| 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...
| Author | Philip Matyszak |
| ISBN | 0500051216 |
The Roman Republic was one of the most civilized societies in the ancient world, ruled by elected officials whose power was checked by a constitution so well crafted that it inspired the founding fathers of the United States of America. Here Philip Matyszak describes fifty-seven of the foremost Romans...
| Author | Barry S. Strauss |
| ISBN | 1416532056 |
An authoritative account from an expert author: The Spartacus War is the first popular history of the revolt in English.
The Spartacus War is the extraordinary story of the most famous slave rebellion in the ancient world, the fascinating true story behind a legend that has been the inspiration...
Caligula: The Corruption of Power
| Author | Anthony A. Barrett |
| ISBN | 0300074298 |
Was the Roman emperor Caligula really the depraved despot of popular legend? In this book -- the first major reassessment of Caligula's life and career in over fifty. years -- Anthony A. Barrett draws on archaeological, numismatic, and literary evidence to evaluate this infamous figure in the context...
| Author | Robert L. O'Connell |
| ISBN | 1400067022 |
A stirring account of the most influential battle in history: For millennia, Carthage's triumph over Rome at Cannae in 216 BCE has inspired reverent awe. It was the battle that countless armies tried to imitate, most notably in World Wars I & II, the battle that obsessed military minds. Yet no general...
| Author | Mary Beard |
| ISBN | 0674026136 |
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It followed every major military victory in ancient Rome: the successful general drove through the streets to the temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline Hill; behind him streamed his raucous soldiers;...
| Author | Richard A. Gabriel |
| ISBN | 1597972053 |
The world often misunderstands its greatest men while neglecting others entirely. Scipio Africanus, surely the greatest general that Rome produced, suffered both these fates. Today scholars celebrate the importance of Hannibal, even though Scipio defeated the legendary general in the Second...
| Author | Christopher Scarre |
| ISBN | 0500050775 |
Those naughty, naughty Roman emperors. They may have been a handful and then some, but they certainly make for interesting reading. While some were downright scary, a few were more Benny Hill-ish, which was scary by itself.
While you don't need to start with
Chronicle of the Roman Republic:...
In 312 A.D., Constantine-one of four Roman emperors ruling a divided empire-marched on Rome to establish his control. On the eve of the battle, a cross appeared to him in the sky with an exhortation, "By this sign conquer." Inscribing the cross on the shields of his soldiers, Constantine drove his rivals...
| Author | Adrian Goldsworthy |
| ISBN | 0300137192 |
A major new history of the fall of the Roman Empire, by the prizewinning author of Caesar
In AD 200, the Roman Empire seemed unassailable, its vast territory accounting for most of the known world. By the end of the fifth century, Roman rule had vanished in western Europe and much of northern Africa,...
| Author | Peter Heather |
| ISBN | 0199752729 |
Here is a fresh, provocative look at how a recognizable Europe came into being in the first millennium AD. With sharp analytic insight, Peter Heather explores the dynamics of migration and social and economic interaction that changed two vastly different worldsthe undeveloped barbarian world...
| Author | James J. O'Donnell |
| ISBN | 0060787376 |
This is not exactly a Fall of the Roman Empire book in the usual sense - it actually is concerned with the hundred years or so after the traditional date of 476 A.D. (and the deposition of Romulus Augustulus, traditionally seen as the "last" Roman emperor). In particular, the book examines and criticizes...
| Author | Michael Parenti |
| ISBN | 1565849426 |
Most historians, both ancient and modern, have viewed the Late Republic of Rome through the eyes of its rich nobility. In The Assassination of Julius Caesar, Michael Parenti presents us with a story of popular resistance against entrenched power and wealth. As he carefully weighs the evidence concerning...
