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I've realized that I'm woefully ignorant of the influential figures and thinkers from Roman History. I want a book that will give me an overview of who the great roman thinkers and statesmen are, so that I ideally could then dive in deeper into those whom I find interesting
I'm currently thinking about diving into either
1. SPQR by Mary Beard
2. Rubicon by Tom Holland
Do you have any other recommendations?
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>>9071886
Idk how much Rubicon will help you with intellectual figures of Rome. But it is a great book, almost biblical in tone, about the civil wars. Good, fun book.
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>>9071886
Lucy, Plutarch and Suetonius
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>>9071886
you might not believe me but City of God
he references all of the great Roman writers so much that you'll walk away with a pretty good idea of what they're all about. You'll know a good amount of history too although the chronology of everything is hard to follow.
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>>9073787
That was supposed to say Livy
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>>9071886
Pliny, either one.
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>>9071886
It is quite difficult to give an advice:
For the classics I suggest you read the letters of Cicero, Seneca, Pliny the Younger and Symmachus.
"Modern" books?
There are many anglo-american historians, whose write history books for a great audience (Goldsworthy, Garnsey, Millar, Grant, Wiedemann and others); but i suggests these "old" books:
Ronald Syme - The Roman Revolution
Ronald Syme - The Augustan Aristocracy
Gaston Boisser - Cicero And His Friends
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>not one mention of Polybios
This board should be purged by fire.
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>>9071886
that fat english bastard who wrote bout the romans
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