Hello /his/ what books can you recommend me to get into ancient roman history?
pls /his/ im going to a uni library in another city tomorrow so i need to know asap :3
>>1409274
overview
europe by norman davies
he gives a fresh, brief perspective on it
Polybius' Histories and Ab Urbe Condita Libri by Livy
>>1409274
do you want actual history or books like the Odyssey, Virgil ect
Anyone of these really
>>1410168
Goldsworthy is really good for getting into this kind of stuff, very readable style without being a complete bullshitter.
Anyone have any recommendations for books on Roman daily life?
Rome: Empire of Eagles is the Roman history assigned book today. Read that
https://www.amazon.com/World-Late-Antiquity-150-750-Civilization/dp/0393958035 if you want late antiquity and http://www.barnesandnoble.com/mobile/p/fall-of-the-roman-empire-peter-heather/1005789237/2674505057821?st=PLA&sid=BNB_DRS_Marketplace+Shopping+Textbooks_00000000&2sid=Google_&sourceId=PLGoP20419&k_clickid=3x20419 great book that has a lot of info and all the causes that created the Roman Empire to fall.
Heard Flames of Rome is pretty good
Tom Holland Rubicon.
Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire
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Some books like these.
>>1411055
Tom Holland basically just lies
>>1410134
Academically sound literature (is that a thing? Im a stemfag so dont know much about humanities' curriculum). Just like one would get in their undergraduate studies for instance
>>1410165
Thx. Should I start with the Greeks though (you know that equivalent pic)?
>>1412658
Actual history about SPQR, the empire, leaders, politics, military etc
>>1412664
I'd recommend this but it's in Dutch
>>1409274
A simple intro
romulus by jacob abbott
>>1409274
Not introduction but a must read
>>1412723
Ik ben Nederlands top koek
>>1410168
Populist as fuck.
The Romans: From Village to Empire - Talbert et al
>A very good, lucid survey of Roman history from the earliest times to the time of Constantine, paying significant attention to the sources.
Ancient Rome: A New History - Potter
>A broad (and lavishly illustrated) account of Roman history from the foundation of the city to the Arab conquest that draws on much recent scholarship.
Primary Source:
The Histories - Polybius
The History of Rome - Livy
The Catiline Conspiracy; The Jugurthine War - Sallust
The Gallic War; The Civil War - Julius Caesar
The Histores; The Annals; Agricola; Germanica - Tacitus
Lives of the Caesars - Suetonius
Here are the bibliographies
Roman Empire
http://pastebin.com/ibgv0LH6
Roman Army
http://pastebin.com/iiyMSsDP
Roman Cities
http://pastebin.com/PN4dRtGe
Roman Art
http://pastebin.com/89cTwfpD
>>1413148
Is there a site where all of these bibliographies can be accessed?
Are they copies of oxford bibs?
>>1413133
>no Cicero
>no Valerius Maximus
>no Apuleius
>no Plinius the Elder or Younger
>no Quintillian
>no Ammianus Marcellinus
>no Zosimus
>no Sidonius Apollonaris
>no Boethius
>no Priscus
>literally just posting stuff that Victorian scholars thought was great and ignoring everything else
>>1413161
>hey guys check out all the literary figures I can namedrop
Read the OP dipshit. Key words: "get into".
>>1413153
We have a pastebin with a bunch of bibliographies
http://pastebin.com/u/jonstond2
Yes, they're from Oxford
Sometimes, even if you cannot view the whole bibliography on Oxford's website, you can see enough introductory books to get yourself the Golden Recent Best Single Volume work that covers most the whole topic and is the only one you'll likely read cover to cover...
>>1413178
>http://pastebin.com/u/jonstond2
Very nice. Cheers for that.
Mary Beard's latest "SPQR" is idiosyncratic, but a good starting place.
Robin Lane Fox's "The Classical World"
Adrian Goldsworthy's bios of Caesar & Augustus
>>1413093
Well when they're looking for introductions, I included them.
I am not gonna recommend primary sources as starting out material, that's such a stupid notion that the pseudo-ints like to do to impress the unknowing. Shit like that is why plebs think Theodora liked getting fucked in the nipple, or Caligula being an absolute madman, thanks to shit readings of Tacitus or Prokopios.
Populist books are legitimately good places to start, and they are easily accessible due to being in print at any Barnes and Nobles, versus a text from the 1960's that was published at a university.
>>1410987
>reading marxist interpretations as a starting point for historical societies
You wot m8
>>1413173
The guy can't get into Roman history without reading half of the list I just posted. Cicero's letters, the Golden Ass, Pliny's Letters, Ammianus Marcellinus and Zosimus for the final years of the empire etc. They're not even obscure, Ammianus for example is considered second only to Tacitus as the greatest Latin historian. Don't be a nigger and only recommend the bare minimum, the guy said he didn't want to be spoonfed the easy shit.
