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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 814309, member: 19463&quot;]You ask two questions.&nbsp; To &#039;look up&#039; the simple book is Van Meter which I review in the book section of my website (very bottom of page):</p><p><a href="http://dougsmith.ancients.info/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://dougsmith.ancients.info/" rel="nofollow">http://dougsmith.ancients.info/</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>To understand, I am not nearly as positive on any simple book.&nbsp; There are decent books including Wayne Sayles&#039; series of six but that is a lot of books.&nbsp; I&#039;d start with his volume three on Rome which, oddly enough, is the one I reviewed on the same page.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Rather than give the link to my book review page, I gave the main page which means you will have to scroll all the way down to the bottom to find the book link. If you should happen to pass anything along the way while scrolling down, you won&#039;t hurt my feelings if you click and read one or a hundred of them.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I hope others will suggest better books but most of the books I considered best for &#039;understanding&#039; rather than just &#039;looking up&#039; are either out of print, expensive or both.&nbsp; There are other very good sites on the Internet so I&#039;d suggest starting with the pages given in response to your first question and look for the links offered by those sites.&nbsp; I do like books (probably explains why I have so many) but it is hard to recommend one that will really do what I believe you would benefit from most.&nbsp; After some basic training on websites and participating on lists like this one, you will be better prepared to select books that fit your interests.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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