Pax Romana
7 best books like Pax Romana (Adrian Goldsworthy): The Twelve Caesars, Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician, American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump, Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire, A History of My Times, Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization, The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians
| Author | Suetonius |
| ISBN | 0140449213 |
As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, Suetonius gained access to the imperial archives and used them (along with eye-witness accounts) to produce one of the most colorful biographical works in history. The Twelve Caesars chronicles the public careers and private lives of the men who wielded...
“All ages of the world have not produced a greater statesman and philosopher combined.”
—John Adams
He squared off against Caesar and was friends with young Brutus. He advised the legendary Pompey on his somewhat botched transition from military hero to politician. He lambasted...
American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump
Politico Magazine’s chief political correspondent provides a rollicking insider’s look at the making of the modern Republican Party—how a decade of cultural upheaval, populist outrage, and ideological warfare made the GOP vulnerable to a hostile takeover from the unlikeliest of insurgents:...
Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire
| Author | Judith Herrin |
| ISBN | 0713999977 |
Byzantium. The name evokes grandeur and exoticism - gold, cunning, and complexity. In this unique book, Judith Herrin unveils the riches of a quite different civilization. Avoiding a standard chronological account of the Byzantine Empire's millennium - long history, she identifies the fundamental...
| 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 | Richard Miles |
| ISBN | 0670022667 |
An epic history of a doomed civilization and a lost empire.
The devastating struggle to the death between the Carthaginians and the Romans was one of the defining dramas of the ancient world. In an epic series of land and sea battles, both sides came close to victory before the Carthaginians...
| Author | Peter Heather |
| ISBN | 0195325419 |
A leading authority on the late Roman Empire and on the barbarians, Heather relates the extraordinary story of how Europe's barbarians, transformed by centuries of contact with Rome on every possible level, eventually pulled the empire apart. He shows first how the Huns overtuned the existing strategic...
