We need to start a /his/ approved book list, whether its important books of history or books on history, I'll start with some obvious ones:
Epic of Gilgamesh - Unknown
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
The Peloponnese War - Thucydides
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Most of the books of Tom Holland, they are not very indept or try radical new things but they are a blast to read.
>>87925
I'd suggest 3 categories.
>Historical records from the the period, like the Thucydides
>Texts that are easy to read but not properly academic texts so people have somewhere to start if they're interested in a period.
>Academic texts for people with more advance interest levels and/or a greater tolerance for dry writing.
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Kojiki - Ō no Yasumaro
The Early History of Rome - Livy
Parallel Live - Plutarch
Carl von Clausewitz - Vom Kriege (On War)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Horse,_the_Wheel_and_Language
http://www.newworldeconomics.com/archives/2014/092814_files/TheFateofEmpiresbySirJohnGlubb.pdf
Just my 2 cent.
Can anyone link me to the best possible iteration of Meditations? I've really been wanting to read that.
The Republic - Plato
Art of War - Sun Tzu
Ethics - Aristotle
Epic of Sundiata
Gallic Commentaries (As well as Spanish War, Civil War, Alexandrian War and African War) - Julius Caesar
Divine Comedy - Dante Aligheri
Anabasis - Xenophon
Metaphysics - Aristotle
Iliad - Homer
Odyssey - Homer
Xenophon, Plato, Aristotle
The Ramayana
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Richard III
Pliny - Natural History
I suggest starting a wiki.
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This desu
>>87925
Is Thomas Carlyle /his/? He wrote histories and postmodern deconstructions of German philosophy for /lit/ and racist nonsense for /pol/. He's got something for everyone.
Can anyone recommend books that go into the political intrigues of an Athens or an Ancient Rome?
