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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4082929, member: 110350&quot;]I know this isn&#039;t exactly about numismatics, but I thought that if it was OK to have a thread about the Ottomans TV series, perhaps this might be OK too.&nbsp; Because I&#039;m really quite addicted to novels set in the world of ancient Rome and, to a lesser extent, Greece.&nbsp; Not necessarily the &quot;serious fiction&quot; kind: I did really like <i>Augustus</i> by John Williams, <i>Julian</i> by Gore Vidal, and <i>Memoirs of Hadrian</i> by Marguerite Yourcenar [who was one of my mother&#039;s professors at Sarah Lawrence; my mother stayed in touch with her for a number of years], but I couldn&#039;t get into the one Colleen McCullough novel I tried. It was just too gigantic!</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m more enamored of the popular fiction category, including mysteries -- I&#039;ve read all the Steven Saylor books about Gordianus, many of Lindsey Davis&#039;s books, and all of the John Maddox Roberts SPQR series until he seemingly dropped off the face of the earth a few years ago -- and military-oriented fiction.&nbsp; The latter would include the novels of Simon Scarrow, Douglas Jackson, Ben Kane, Adrian Goldsworthy, a book called <i>Eagle in the Snow</i> by Wallace Breem published back in 1970, and (my current favorites), all the fiction about ancient Rome written by the historian Harry Sidebottom.&nbsp; It was probably reading dozens of books like this that helped rekindle my interest in collecting ancient Roman coins a few years ago.</p><p><br /></p><p>I haven&#039;t read much that takes place in the Grecian world, except for two wonderful books by Mary Renault (<i>The King Must Die</i> and <i>The Bull from the Sea</i>), and a few books by Steven Pressfield.</p><p><br /></p><p>Is there anyone out there with similar reading interests, who might have any other authors to recommend?</p><p><br /></p><p>My apologies if this wasn&#039;t an appropriate subject to raise.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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