What are the best books on the ancient world? They must be written

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2016-06-10 20:30:25 Post No. 1269240
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Anonymous 2016-06-10 20:30:25 Post No. 1269240 [Report]

What are the best books on the ancient world?

They must be written in a way that doesn't make me want to claw my eyes out (i.e. not academic text books).

Books on areas other than Ancient Rome/Greece particularly welcome (anyone have any good books on Ancient Asia?).

Anonymous 2016-06-10 20:35:50 Post No.1269270
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Anonymous 2016-06-10 20:35:50 Post No.1269270 [Report]

>>1269240
>They must be written in a way that doesn't make me want to claw my eyes out (i.e. not academic text books).
>>>/lit/

Anonymous 2016-06-10 20:39:15 Post No.1269288
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Anonymous 2016-06-10 20:39:15 Post No.1269288 [Report]

Why don't you just read the original sources faggot? Start with some basic Tacitus.

Anonymous 2016-06-10 20:55:25 Post No.1269384
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Anonymous 2016-06-10 20:55:25 Post No.1269384 [Report]

Cleomades et Claremonde, aka Le Cheval de Fust.

Anonymous 2016-06-10 20:56:59 Post No.1269391
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Anonymous 2016-06-10 20:56:59 Post No.1269391 [Report]

>>1269240
Genesis, Exodus, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 and 2 Kings, Daniel.

God Tier.

Anonymous 2016-06-10 21:02:29 Post No.1269420
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Anonymous 2016-06-10 21:02:29 Post No.1269420 [Report]

>>1269391
Get out with that shit pun.

Anonymous 2016-06-10 21:07:05 Post No.1269443
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Anonymous 2016-06-10 21:07:05 Post No.1269443 [Report]

>>1269391
I think OP is looking for books about history though

Anonymous 2016-06-10 22:05:16 Post No.1269698
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Anonymous 2016-06-10 22:05:16 Post No.1269698 [Report]

Read the Greek and Roman historians, they're great.

Anonymous 2016-06-10 22:09:14 Post No.1269725
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Anonymous 2016-06-10 22:09:14 Post No.1269725 [Report]

>>1269240
To add to this, can you lads recommend books about ancient people going to foreign lands and tripping out about the weird (relative to them) stuff that they see?

Anonymous 2016-06-10 22:10:52 Post No.1269730
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Anonymous 2016-06-10 22:10:52 Post No.1269730 [Report]

>>1269420
inorite?

>>1269443
That is my understanding as well.

Anonymous 2016-06-11 05:33:29 Post No.1270785
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Anonymous 2016-06-11 05:33:29 Post No.1270785 [Report]

>>1269725
the travels of marco polo

Anonymous 2016-06-11 05:35:47 Post No.1270792
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Anonymous 2016-06-11 05:35:47 Post No.1270792 [Report]

>>1269288
Not OP, but I'd like to find more of what you're talking about. Where could I find it?

Anonymous 2016-06-11 08:09:20 Post No.1271262
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Anonymous 2016-06-11 08:09:20 Post No.1271262 [Report]

>>1269725

Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness

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