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Caesar: Life of a Colossus
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Adrian Goldsworthy has produced another high quality and informative book on Ancient Rome. "Caesar: Life of a Colossus" is one of the best Roman history books that I've ever read (and since 1976, I've read alot of them!). This book should serve as the standard for which all future biograghies of Julius Caesar should be measured by.... »
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City of God (Penguin Classics)
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Augustine's City of God, a monumental work of religious lore, philosophy, and history, was written as a kind of literary tombstone for Roman culture. After the sack of Rome, Augustine wrote this book to anatomize the corruption of Romans' pursuit of earthly pleasures: "grasping for praise, open-handed with their money; honest in the pursuit of w... »
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Meditations (Penguin Classics)
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One measure, perhaps, of a book's worth, is its intergenerational pliancy: do new readers acquire it and interpret it afresh down through the ages? The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, translated and introduced by Gregory Hays, by that standard, is very worthwhile, indeed. Hays suggests that its most recent incarnation--as a self-help book--is no... »
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