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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Blake Davis, post: 26444418, member: 91820&quot;]I love to read ancient histories while looking at coins from the era I am reading about.&nbsp; I very much recommend any of these ancient authors:</p><p><br /></p><p>For Rome: , Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Livy, Tacitus (Annals and Histories), Suetonius (has to be Graves translation), Josephus (his &quot;Jewish Wars&quot; on siege of Jerusalem ca. 70AD; his &quot;Jewish Antiquities&quot; has a wonderful section on the assassination of Caligula), Dio Cassius, Julius Caesar, Sallust, Ammianus Marcellinus, Plutarch, Appian(highly recommended, underrated historian), Herodian - his section on Maximinus led me to a complete reappraisal of his reign - had he survived his military prowess might have saved the empire from the disasters that began a mere 12 years after his death), and the Historia Augusta (use with care), are all wonderful for Roman history.</p><p><br /></p><p>For Greek history: Plutarch (Roman and Greek history),Polybius (Greek and Roman), Arrian, Diodorus Siculus, Manetho (ancient Egypt), Thucydides, Xenophon, and Herodotus, Homer (well, maybe not) - what am I leaving out?;</p><p><br /></p><p>Byzantine history: Anna Komnene, John Skylitzes, Theophylact Simocatta, Michael Psellus, Procopius and Theophanes&#039; Chronicle - there are others.</p><p><br /></p><p>I may be leaving some but all are available in fast moving readable translations.&nbsp;&nbsp; What is extremely depressing is that the above short list is just about every ancient Greek and Roman history that exists in book form - THIS MEAGRE LIST IS IT - and many of these are not complete - it can drive one mad because some of these end in mid-sentence.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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