Rome + Roman history

Book Reviews

• Lindsey Davis: The Silver Pigs
  - private informer Marcus Didius Falco uncovers a conspiracy
• William Fitzgerald: How to Read a Latin Poem
  If You Can't Read Latin Yet
• Joan M. Frayn: Sheep-Rearing and the Wool Trade
  in Italy during the Roman Period
• Andrea Giardina: The Romans
  - a social history
• Robert Graves: Count Belisarius
  - a historical novel about Justinian's great general
• Robert Graves: The Shout and Other Stories
  - English, Roman, and Majorcan stories
• Barbara Graziosi: The Gods of Olympus
  A History
• Colleen McCullough: Masters of Rome
  - epic historical fiction, from the Republic to the Empire
• Helen Morales: Classical Mythology
  A Very Short Introduction
• Robert L. O'Connell: The Ghosts of Cannae
  Hannibal and the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic
• Steven Saylor: Arms of Nemesis
  - a murder mystery set during the Spartacist revolt in 70 BC
• Steven Saylor: Catilina's Riddle
  - a mystery set during the Catiline Conspiracy
• Olga Tellegen-Couperus: A Short History of Roman Law
  - suitable for those with no background in Roman history
• B.H. Warmington: Nero
  Reality and Legend
• Alan Watson: Roman Law and Comparative Law
• Herwig Wolfram: The Roman Empire and its Germanic Peoples
  - Visigoths, Vandals, Ostrogoths, Burgundians, ...

See also: Greece | Italy | ancient history

Roman history was one of my earliest interests, but I haven't kept up my Latin.