Paul’s Lists: Ancient Rome

 

These are books that have greatly helped me to understand ancient Rome. If you can get only one, gosh, that’s tough, but I would probably say Handbook to Life in Ancient Rome by Lesley and Roy Adkins. For the most illuminating book, considering its brevity, I would pick Party Politics in the Age of Caesar by Lily Ross Taylor. For the most delightful and surprising book, probably Around the Roman Table by Patrick Faas.

The List

• Around the Roman Table by Patrick Faas
• Caesar: The Life of a Colossus by Adrian Goldsworthy
• The Civil War by Caesar
• The Cults of the Roman Empire by Robert Turcan
• Daily Life in Ancient Rome by Florence Dupont
• An Economic History of Rome by Tenney Frank
• Everyday Life in Ancient Rome by Lionel Casson
• The Founding of the Roman Empire by Frank Burr Marsh
• From Republic to Empire: The Roman Civil War 44 B.C.–27 B.C. by W. W. Tarn and M. P. Charlesworth
• Handbook to Life in Ancient Rome by Lesley Adkins and Roy A. Adkins
• A History of Technology, volume II: The Mediterranean Civilizations and the Middle Ages 700 B.C. to c. A.D. 1500, edited by Charles Singer, E. J. Holmyard, A. R. Hall, and Trevor I. Williams
• The Oxford Classical Dictionary, edited by Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth
• Party Politics in the Age of Caesar by Lily Ross Taylor
• Pompey the Great: A Political Biography by Robin Seager
• The Roman Conquest of Italy by Jean-Michel David
• Roman Legionary: 58 BC–AD 69 by Ross Cowan
• The Roman Revolution by Ronald Syme
• The Roman Way by Edith Hamilton
• Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland
• The Way of the Gladiator by Daniel P. Mannix

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