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Anonymous Tue Oct 3 11:03:30 2017 No.10102067 [Reply] [Original]

Hello, gentlemen (and cunts).

I have recently become quite intrigued by the history of Rome. What is a good list of literature I should read to learn it thoroughly? Movie suggestions are also appreciated.

Any discussion relating to Rome is accepted in this thread.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 3 11:10:53 2017 No.10102094 Livy, Plutarch, Appian, Sallust, Dio Cassius, Ceasar, Cicero, Tacitus, Suetonius, Herodian, Aurelius

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 3 11:16:51 2017 No.10102110 >>10102067 Mike Duncan's History of Rome podcast is quite gooda

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 3 11:17:10 2017 No.10102112 >>10102094 Is this in a chronological sequence?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 3 11:21:09 2017 No.10102128 >>10102112 Chronological according to the writers or the topics?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 3 11:22:18 2017 No.10102131 >>10102128 The writers and era of topics they write about >>10102110 Thank you, anon. Noted.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 3 11:28:44 2017 No.10102148 >>10102131 Well Plutarch writes about people from Romulus (8th century BC) to Galba (AD 1st century) Caesar writes only about his own campaigns. It's hard to put the topics chronologically. You can Google the writers to see when they lived.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 3 11:30:39 2017 No.10102155 >>10102148 Yeah, I get what you mean. They must overlap.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 3 12:32:46 2017 No.10102341 >>10102067 Rubicon and Dynasty by Tom Holland.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 3 14:48:47 2017 No.10102820 WE WUZ CESARE N SHIT

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 3 14:51:38 2017 No.10102827 >>10102067 Gibbon, Mary Beard's SPQR, and the Oxford History is just fine. >>10102094 This but add polybius and diodorus

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 3 16:19:19 2017 No.10103161 File: 2.96 MB, 6100x3721, Romans lit.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 3 16:36:37 2017 No.10103210 >>10103161 Thank you a ton!

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 3 16:40:04 2017 No.10103218 SPQR by beard

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 3 16:43:03 2017 No.10103231 Try 'I Claudius' and 'Claudius the God'.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 3 16:48:16 2017 No.10103246 >>10102341 I haven't read Dynasty yet, but I really enjoyed Rubicon. I'm sure the pseuds on here hate it though.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 4 01:57:01 2017 No.10104904 >>10102067 Mommsen and Gibbon should be enough.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 4 02:50:41 2017 No.10105032 File: 15 KB, 480x712, testimonium memeticum.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10102827 >Gibbon >just fine.

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