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Message:: [QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 4089716, member: 84744"]One of my favourite topics.  I love Renault, the McCullough series (I highly recommend giving this another try... after 100 pages it will become a real page-turner, I'm sure), Breem's The Eagle in the Snow (definitely belongs in the "serious" category IMO), Harry Sidebottom, The Long Ships, and many others mentioned above. A few I'd recommend that haven't come up:• Pride of Carthage by David Anthony Durham (excellent, the 2nd Punic War from the Carthaginean perspective)• The Gladiators by Arthur Koestler (about Spartacus; a bit of political allegory going on here, but very good & attentive to the history if with some license)• The Year of the Four Emperors series by L. J. Trafford, starting with Palatine (very funny, historically accurate, great characters, easy read - not widely known but highly recommended!  Anyone who likes Lindsay Davis's Falco will like these.)• The Eagle of the Ninth series by Rosemary Sutcliff (aimed at young adults, but I found them pretty sophisticated and enjoyable.  It's "young adult" only in steering away from much in the way of sex & graphic violence.  Her King Arthur book, Sword at Sunset, is written for adults and is excellent.)• Bernard Cornwell's Saxon Chronicles, beginning with The Last Kingdom (also a Netflix series, the books are great fun)• The Crusades Trilogy by Jan Guillou (also great fun)[/QUOTE]