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The Landmark Julius Caesar: The Complete Works

10 best books like The Landmark Julius Caesar: The Complete Works (Gaius Julius Caesar): Ships of Oak, Guns of Iron: The War of 1812 and the Forging of the American Navy, Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy, Rome's Last Citizen: The Life and Legacy of Cato, Mortal Enemy of Caesar, The Literary Guide to the Bible, The Annals/The Histories, The Day of the Barbarians: The Battle That Led to the Fall of the Roman Empire, NIV, Archaeological Study Bible: An Illustrated Walk Through Biblical History and Culture, An Old Testament Theology: An Exegetical, Canonical, and Thematic Approach, The Passion of Michel Foucault, The Greco-Persian Wars

Ships of Oak, Guns of Iron: The War of 1812 and the Forging of the American Navy
AuthorRonald Utt
ISBN1621570029
The War of 1812 is typically noted for a handful of events: the burning of the White House, the rise of the Star Spangled Banner, and the battle of New Orleans. But in fact the greatest consequence of that distant conflict was the birth of the U.S. Navy. During the War of 1812, America’s tiny fleet took...
Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy
AuthorDonald Kagan
ISBN0684863952
Because of a dearth of primary source materials author Kagan must progress here by way of thematic chapters: "The Statesman," "The Visionary," "The Peacemaker," and so on. We see the people, the buildings, the wars, the navy, the art, the pantheism, the slaves, the empire, the rebellions, the legal...
Rome's Last Citizen: The Life and Legacy of Cato, Mortal Enemy of Caesar
AuthorRob Goodman
ISBN0312681232
The first biography of the final man to stand against Caesar—whose principles and defiance became a rallying cry for future revolutions

He was Rome’s bravest statesman, an aristocratic soldier who slept on the ground with his troops, a Stoic philosopher and staunch defender of the...
The Literary Guide to the Bible
AuthorRobert Alter
ISBN0674875311
5. The Literary Guide to the Bible edited by Robert Alter & Frank Kermode
published: 1987
format: 672 page Hardcover
acquired: 2012
read: Jan 2012 – Nov 2015, June 2, 2018 - Jan 23, 2019
time reading: ~50 hr ~4.5 min/page
rating: 4

Contributors: J. P. Fokkelman,...
The Annals/The Histories
AuthorTacitus
ISBN0812966996
Cornelius Tacitus brilliantly chronicles the moral decline and rampant civil unrest in the Roman Empire in a period when the earliest foundations of modern Europe were being laid. The Annals commence in a.d. 14, at the death of Augustus, recounting the reigns of Tiberius, Gaius (Caligula), Claudius,...
The Day of the Barbarians: The Battle That Led to the Fall of the Roman Empire
AuthorAlessandro Barbero
ISBN0802715710
On August 9, 378 AD, at Adrianople in the Roman province of Thrace (now western Turkey), the Roman Empire began to fall. Two years earlier, an unforeseen flood of refugees from the East Germanic tribe known as the Goths had arrived at the Empire's eastern border, seeking admittance. Though usually successful...
NIV, Archaeological Study Bible: An Illustrated Walk Through Biblical History and Culture
AuthorAnonymous
I don't have anything against this book, but it gets one star because some fucking Larry the Cable Guy lookalike and his bovine looking wife gave Karen and I both way too much shit yesterday because their fat asses were blocking shelves while they each leafed through this book. Like good Christians when...
An Old Testament Theology: An Exegetical, Canonical, and Thematic Approach
AuthorBruce K. Waltke
ISBN0310218977
The Old Testament is more than a religious history of the nation of Israel. It is more than a portrait gallery of heroes of the faith. It is even more than a theological and prophetic backdrop to the New Testament. Beyond these, the Old Testament is inspired revelation of the very nature, character, and...
The Passion of Michel Foucault
AuthorJames Miller
ISBN0674001575
Here is a condensed version of this book:

Michel Foucault was gay. He was a philosopher and was gay. He had gay sex, with men who were also gay but probably not as gay as he was. He was profoundly influenced by Samuel Beckett, who was not gay, but Foucault was gay enough for everyone. He was also influenced...
The Greco-Persian Wars
AuthorPeter Green
ISBN0520203135
This is a reissue, with a new introduction and an update to the bibliography, of the original edition, published in 1970 as The Year of Salamis in England and as Xerxes at Salamis in the U.S.

The long and bitter struggle between the great Persian Empire and the fledgling Greek states reached its...
War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861-1865
AuthorJames M. McPherson
ISBN0807835889
Although previously undervalued for their strategic impact because the represented only a small percentage of total forces, the Union and Confederate navies were crucial to the outcome of the Civil War. In "War on the Waters," James M. McPherson has crafted an enlightening, at times harrowing, and...
The Battle of Salamis: The Naval Encounter that Saved Greece—and Western Civilization
AuthorBarry S. Strauss
ISBN0743244516
On a late September day in 480 B.C., Greek warships faced an invading Persian armada in the narrow Salamis Straits in the most important naval battle of the ancient world. Overwhelmingly outnumbered by the enemy, the Greeks triumphed through a combination of strategy and deception. More than two millennia...
Pax Romana
AuthorAdrian Goldsworthy
ISBN0297864289
Best-selling author Adrian Goldsworthy turns his attention to the Pax Romana, the famous peace and prosperity brought by the Roman Empire at its height in the first and second centuries AD. Yet the Romans were conquerors, imperialists who took by force a vast empire stretching from the Euphrates to...
In the Land of Pain
AuthorAlphonse Daudet
ISBN0375414851
As Julian Barnes writes in the introduction to his superb translation of Alphonse Daudet’s La Doulou, the mostly forgotten writer nowadays “ate at the top literary table” during his lifetime (1840–1897). Henry James described him as “the happiest novelist” and “the most charming...
Avedon: Something Personal
AuthorNorma Stevens
ISBN0812994434
An intimate biography of Richard Avedon, the legendary fashion and portrait photographer who "helped define America's image of style, beauty and culture" (The New York Times), by his longtime collaborator and business partner Norma Stevens and award-winning author Steven M. L. Aronson.

Richard...
Grand Avenues: The Story of the French Visionary Who Designed Washington, D.C.
AuthorScott W. Berg
ISBN0375422803
"Grand Avenues" tells the riveting story of Pierre Charles L'Enfant and the creation of Washington D.C.--from the seeds of his inspiration to the fulfillment of his extraordinary vision.
L'Enfant's story is one of consuming passion, high emotion, artistic genius, and human frailty. As a boy...
Song of Wrath: The Peloponnesian War Begins
AuthorJ.E. Lendon
ISBN0465015069
Song of Wrath tells the story of Classical Athens’ victorious 10 Years’ War (431–421) against grim Sparta—the 1st decade of the terrible Peloponnesian War that turned the Golden Age of Greece to lead. Historian J.E. Lendon presents a sweeping tale of pitched battles by land & sea, sieges,...
Michel Foucault
AuthorDidier Eribon
ISBN0674572866
At the time of his death in 1984, at the age of 58, Michel Foucault was widely regarded as one of the most powerful minds of the 20th century. Hailed by distinguished historians and lionized on his frequent visits to America, he continues to provoke lively debate. The nature and merits of his accomplishments...
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius
AuthorLeo Damrosch
ISBN0618446966
The extraordinary life of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the eighteenth-century literary genius who changed the course of history, traced with novelistic verve.

Motherless child, failed apprentice, autodidact, impossibly odd lover, Jean-Jacques Rousseau burst unexpectedly onto the eighteenth-century...
The Age of Caesar: Five Roman Lives
AuthorPlutarch
ISBN0393355527
Pompey, Caesar, Cicero, Brutus, Antony: the names still resonate across thousands of years. Major figures in the civil wars that brutally ended the Roman republic, their lives pose a question that haunts us still: how to safeguard a republic from the flaws of its leaders.


This reader’s...
U. S. Grant: American Hero, American Myth
AuthorJoan Waugh
ISBN0807833177
At the time of his death, Ulysses S. Grant was the most famous person in America, considered by most citizens to be equal in stature to George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Yet today his monuments are rarely visited, his military reputation is overshadowed by that of Robert E. Lee, and his presidency...
How to Grow Old: Ancient Wisdom for the Second Half of Life
AuthorMarcus Tullius Cicero
ISBN0691167702
Worried that old age will inevitably mean losing your libido, your health, and possibly your marbles too? Well, Cicero has some good news for you. In How to Grow Old, the great Roman orator and statesman eloquently describes how you can make the second half of life the best part of all--and why you might...
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