Memnon10 reviews Scott Oden Medallion Press, 2006 Great Reading! + Exactly what I needed... + needs a map + A Very Enjoyable Read + Not as good as MEN OF BRONZE             The Life and Times of Constantine the Great: The First Christian Emperor, Second Edition, 200316 reviews D. G. Kousoulas Rutledge Books, Inc., 2003 remarkable + Very readable history of an incredible figure + Constantine - A Take Charge Guy! + A Masterful Treatment + A very good book about Constantine             The Rise and Fall of Alexandria: Birthplace of the Modern Mind22 reviews Justin Pollard, Howard Reid Viking Adult, 2006 Fresh air, fresh view, inhale! + A Tragical Ending to the Zenith of Civilization in the Old World + The city, half-imagined, yet wholly real, begins and ends in us, roots lodged in our memory. + Breathtaking Overview of a Remarkably Modern Ancient City             Pompeii: A Novel183 reviews Robert Harris Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2005 Pompeii + Beware Vesuvius is going to Explode! + Exciting, Fast Paced, Can't Put it Down Read! + A fine historical novel             Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor44 reviews Anthony Everitt Random House, 2006 History of Rome for everyone + Enjoyable biography + Accurate, Easy to Understand Biography + History's Most Successful Politician + Well written & enjoyable ancient history             God's Gold: A Q for the Lost Temple Treasures of Jerusalem7 reviews Sean Kingsley Harper Paperbacks, 2008 A Pleasant Countryside + A fascinating tale well told but not much of a quest + God's Gold Reading Kingsley's book is like taking a run through a pleasant countryside for hours on end only to find you've covered less than a mile. It's pleasant reading, but the author is in no hurry to get to the point. This is a work of popular archeological speculation. There is real evidence here ...             Men of Bronze19 reviews Scott Oden Medallion Press, 2005 Action in an Ancient, Savage Age + An invincible badass becomes a man, and an immortal empire becomes a satrapy + Blazing Egyptian Historical Adventure "Men of Bronze" is a story of betrayal, vengeance and finally love and redemption set during the fall of Egypt. One reviewer used the description of the writing as "Comic Book-like"; in the sense that the characters were larger than life, I would have to agree. But the story of Barca the ...             Plutarch's Lives Volume 1 (Modern Library Classics)6 reviews Plutarch Modern Library, 2001 A Timeless Classic By One Of The Best Biographers In History + Dryden, Clough and Others + An Overlooked Classic + A book every man should read + Invaluable source and historical document.             Memoirs of Hadrian57 reviews Marguerite Yourcenar Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005 Perhaps a Masterpiece + Notes on maturity + A masterpiece. + Memoirs of Hadrian + Enlightened Caesar             Gods and Legions: A Novel of the Roman Empire37 reviews Michael Curtis Ford St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2003 OK... I think I've got it.... + Surprising... + Worm's eye view This book helped me understand what I am looking for in an historical fiction. (deep breath) Steven Saylor (Mysteries of Ancient Rome series) does not hold my interest.... Simon Scarrow (Under the Eagle) is modern writing writ small for the epic that is Rome. But Michael Curtis Ford... ahhh ... If ...             Blood of the Caesars: How the Murder of Germanicus Led to the Fall of Rome3 reviews Stephen Dando-Collins Wiley, 2008 Very Nice Mystery + Highly Recommended + Not bad at all I have enjoyed before the books relating the History of the Roman Legions by author Dando-Collins, especially Nero's Killing Machine that gives background on the campaigns of Germanicus and how he become recognized as one of Rome's best military commanders. In this new book he gives us an ...             I, Claudius : From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54 ...160 reviews Robert Graves Vintage, 1989 Totally awesome + Good Read... + If you like your history lite then I, Claudius is your book. "I Claudius" was the first book that convinced me that history could be engrossing. Ridiculously fun to read - it delivers a thrill on a level with the first time you saw "The Mikado", heard the Saint-Saens cello concerto, Callas singing 'Casta Diva'. You get the picture. It is a stroke of ...             Nero's Killing Machine: The True Story of Rome's Remarkable 14th Legion17 reviews Stephen Dando-Collins Wiley, 2004 A Roman Legion Comes to Life + Nero's Killing Machine + The XX Legion would be jealous. + Nero's Killing Machine             Pride of Carthage44 reviews David Anthony Durham Anchor, 2006 The best battlefield writing I've ever read + 'Baal is my grace' + The Saga of Hannibal I was captivated in the first few pages by the writing: at times it feels like it flows like water. I found myself rereading some paragraphs just to savour the writing, but it never gets in the way of the story. The description of the battle of Cannae is chilling in the way it depicts the ...             Byzantium: The Early Centuries35 reviews John Julius Norwich Knopf, 1989 This Book Is One Big Reason I Went To Istanbul (and Loved It) + Amazing for what it is + Sweeping survey of Byzantine history + BYZANTIUM: THE EARLY CENTURIES - JOHN JULIUS NORWICH             The Last King: Rome's Greatest Enemy28 reviews Michael Curtis Ford St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2005 Rome's Greatest Enemy + Exciting + Michael Curtis Ford Created Interest + He Lost Every Battle.... So What ?             Caesar: Life of a Colossus51 reviews Adrian Goldsworthy Yale University Press, 2006 A Superior Telling + Excellent read on Caesar + An Interesting Read + Very Impressive + Good, informative but why, oh why?!             Byzantium: The Decline and Fall23 reviews John Julius Norwich Knopf, 1995 A brilliant conclusion to a masterpiece + Superb book on a sadly neglected subject. + BYZANTIUM: THE DECLINE AND FALL - JOHN JULIUS NORWICH + A well written flowing account + a superb elegy for a relative too little loved. . .             The October Horse: A Novel of Caesar and Cleopatra60 reviews Colleen McCullough Pocket, 2003 Treats a difficult period in a most readable way + A long case of closure + A excellent capstone to the Masters of Rome series + Interesting and Absorbing             Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician79 reviews Anthony Everitt Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2003 I wanted Cicero to live! + Absorbing and well written biography + Everett's Cicero + Excellent Introduction to a Great Man + Entertaining book on Cicero