 | Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome by Robert Harris
Buy used from: $0.01 The master storyteller stays in the Roman world for his hard-headed account of Ciceros struggle for political power
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 | Rome - The Complete First Season
Buy new: $54.99 / Used from: $30.00 Gore, passion, friendship and betrayal in groundbreaking piece of history on television. The broad sweep is plausible, the details often correct
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 | Pompeii: The Living City by Alex Butterworth
Buy new: $20.40 / Used from: $5.59 An extraordinary factual/fictional portrait of a small town in the reign of Nero: decadence, sex, murder, volcanoes and everyday life
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 | Caesar: Life of a Colossus by Adrian Goldsworthy
Buy new: $21.00 / Used from: $6.07 An overwritten but very thorough and fascinating biography of one of the ancient worlds most famous figures
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 | The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff
Buy new: $7.95 / Used from: $2.50 The book that first brought me to classics, as a child. A superb evocation of life on the misty edges of empire
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 | Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $6.10 Landmark retelling of the vicious end of Romes republic, Caesars seizure of power and the citys new identity as an Empire
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 | The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization by Bryan Ward-Perkins
Buy used from: $9.95 A prominent academic lashes back at the arguments that Rome didnt fall but merely changed: the revenge of the Dark Ages
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 | The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians by Peter Heather
Buy used from: $14.62 The revisionist story of how an empire fell victim to its own success. Lesson: dont let China get hold of the blueprints
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 | Caesar's Legion: The Epic Saga of Julius Caesar's Elite Tenth Legion and the Armies of Rome by Stephen Dando-Collins
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $7.88 Travels with a legion that cut a blaze through the frontiers of Empire and finally crushed the heroic Jewish stand at Masada
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 | Roman Sex: 100 B.C. to A.D. 250 by John Clarke
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $6.31 An unabashed look at sex (in all is forms) in a world before Judeao-Christian morality, with an art historical flavour
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