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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1823176, member: 19463&quot;]I&#039;ll second this recommendation and particularly like the fact that it can be taken in small doses.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am, however, not a big fan of historical fiction.&nbsp; When the real stories are so interesting, I see no reason for changing the story so readers will be confused as to what is real and what is fiction.&nbsp; I have no problem if a story is set in ancient Rome but does not involve historical figures but, when the story involves the Imperial Family, I&#039;d rather they made up a world that was entirely fictional.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Having said that, it is hard to say I like Ammianus Marcellianus or any of the Roman historians who wrote either long after the period covered or had such an ax to grind that we can&#039;t know whether we should believe them or not.&nbsp; The difference is that we know that historical fiction authors lie while historians only probably do. </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/book.html#cmax" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/book.html#cmax" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/book.html#cmax</a></p><p>I enjoyed Jones, A. H. M., <b>Constantine and the Conversion of Europe</b>, (Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching, 4, U. of Toronto Press, 1978) enough that I reviewed it for my website.&nbsp; Whether it is any more accurate on what happened during that period or not I can not say.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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