Need book recommendations history/philosophy

>>3169866
What part of Antiquity?

For near east, I would recommend
>A History of the Near East by Marc Van de Mieroop

For a Focus on Greeks, these four classics would cover you rather well. There is also a good lecture on iTunes U from Yale on ancient Greece.

>Herodotus: The Histories
>Thucydides: Peloponnesian War
>Xenophon: Hellenika
>Arrian: Anabasis of Alexander

>>3169866
for mongols
https://pastebin.com/mNF84gwb
https://pastebin.com/5UHaP8Mz
and this list of books collected from a lot of other bibliographies on pastebin
https://pastebin.com/MUE0RauR

>>3170134
Yeah I was looking for both near East and Greeks, thanks!

Polybius is supposed to be getting the Landmark treatment if he hasn't already. You can read modern authors but Livy and Polybius both read just fine on their own.

>>3170340
I think Julius Caeser is next on the landmark line.

Concerning Polybius and Livy, keep in mind Polybius is considered very reliable, one of if not the most reliable historian in antiquity. Both are important to read though.

>>3169866
Plato's Phaidon and Politeia. Homer's Ilias. The Theogony of Hesiod. A funny and rather easy to read work is the Characters written by Theophrast. If you're interested in roman literature as well: ovid's ars amatoria, marcus aurelius' meditations, plutarch's biographies. for example...