Hey /his/lads, what do you think about this book, The Roman

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>>2449253
>what do you think about this book, The Roman Revolution, from Ronald Syme?
An interesting work that explores the importance of Augustus's supporters in establishing his reign. Been a while since I read it and can be a somewhat difficult read but is worth it, Syme's work one of the biggest ones (at least among academia) in the field even though it is decades old.

> can you recommend some other roman books?
Yeah see https://classicsvic.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/rafferty.pdf

Though short it talks about contemporary scholarship on the Roman Republic and various views on its decline. I also recommend "A Companion to the Roman Republic" (http://bookzz.org/book/691900/83657f) which is a bunch of essays about contemporary work on the subject, "The Blackwell Companion to the Roman Empire" (http://bookzz.org/book/612114/714262) which does the same thing the first book does but with the Empire, and "The Last Generation of the Roman Republic" (http://www.mediafire.com/file/y7hypwl4ff7tm6u/The_Last_Generation_of_the_Roman_Republic.pdf).

>>2449253
Big fan of Sir Ronald, and of The Roman Revolution in particular. He's a great writer, not afraid to make a joke, and boy does he hate Julius Caesar. Another book on the same period is Party Politics in the Age of Caesar by Lily Ross Taylor. Also try Rome in the Late Republic by Mary Beard and Michael Crawford.

>>2449253
>and can you recommend some other roman books?
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.