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What are your favorite books on Rome? I've read Goldsworthys entire bibliography and I recently read Justinian by Peter Sarris and the Cato biography called Rome's last citizen. I'm struggling to find anything else to read at the moment. I'm finding that most of the books are written by extremely dry academics or are hack over-dramatized bullshit like everything by Holland and Everitt.
Goldsworthy is so good at riding this line such that all his work really feels like the best of both worlds. On the flipside the Cato book was phenomenal, despite being much more narrative driven but the sources were good enough that it didn't feel like rampant speculation like Everitt and Holland do.
Any recs? I'm much more partial to the pre 476 time periods.
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Really comfy textbook that was assigned to us by an old school teacher in my highschool Latin class a decade ago. I definitely recommend it. Iirc the author also wrote A Day In Ancient Athens that was advertised on the inside flap
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That's right up my alley, I like reading about every day life in the ancient world. Unfortunately I don't think I can get it where I live. I'll give this a try though, sounds like the same concept.