What are the best books on the ancient world? They must be written

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2016-06-10 20:30:25 Post No. 1269240
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Anonymous 2016-06-10 20:30:25 Post No. 1269240 [Report]

What are the best books on the ancient world?

They must be written in a way that doesn't make me want to claw my eyes out (i.e. not academic text books).

Books on areas other than Ancient Rome/Greece particularly welcome (anyone have any good books on Ancient Asia?).

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Anonymous 2016-06-10 20:35:50 Post No.1269270
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Anonymous 2016-06-10 20:35:50 Post No.1269270 [Report]

>>1269240
>They must be written in a way that doesn't make me want to claw my eyes out (i.e. not academic text books).
>>>/lit/

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Anonymous 2016-06-10 20:39:15 Post No.1269288
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Anonymous 2016-06-10 20:39:15 Post No.1269288 [Report]

Why don't you just read the original sources faggot? Start with some basic Tacitus.

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Anonymous 2016-06-10 20:55:25 Post No.1269384
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Anonymous 2016-06-10 20:55:25 Post No.1269384 [Report]

Cleomades et Claremonde, aka Le Cheval de Fust.

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Anonymous 2016-06-10 20:56:59 Post No.1269391
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Anonymous 2016-06-10 20:56:59 Post No.1269391 [Report]

>>1269240
Genesis, Exodus, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 and 2 Kings, Daniel.

God Tier.

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Anonymous 2016-06-10 21:02:29 Post No.1269420
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Anonymous 2016-06-10 21:02:29 Post No.1269420 [Report]

>>1269391
Get out with that shit pun.

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Anonymous 2016-06-10 21:07:05 Post No.1269443
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Anonymous 2016-06-10 21:07:05 Post No.1269443 [Report]

>>1269391
I think OP is looking for books about history though

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Anonymous 2016-06-10 22:05:16 Post No.1269698
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Anonymous 2016-06-10 22:05:16 Post No.1269698 [Report]

Read the Greek and Roman historians, they're great.

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Anonymous 2016-06-10 22:09:14 Post No.1269725
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Anonymous 2016-06-10 22:09:14 Post No.1269725 [Report]

>>1269240
To add to this, can you lads recommend books about ancient people going to foreign lands and tripping out about the weird (relative to them) stuff that they see?

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Anonymous 2016-06-10 22:10:52 Post No.1269730
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Anonymous 2016-06-10 22:10:52 Post No.1269730 [Report]

>>1269420
inorite?

>>1269443
That is my understanding as well.

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Anonymous 2016-06-11 05:33:29 Post No.1270785
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Anonymous 2016-06-11 05:33:29 Post No.1270785 [Report]

>>1269725
the travels of marco polo

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Anonymous 2016-06-11 05:35:47 Post No.1270792
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Anonymous 2016-06-11 05:35:47 Post No.1270792 [Report]

>>1269288
Not OP, but I'd like to find more of what you're talking about. Where could I find it?

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Anonymous 2016-06-11 08:09:20 Post No.1271262
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Anonymous 2016-06-11 08:09:20 Post No.1271262 [Report]

>>1269725

Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness