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<p>[QUOTE="Parthicus, post: 4899889, member: 81887"]Robert Graves' "I, Claudius" and "Claudius the God" are the obvious but correct first choices. Colleen McCullough wrote several novels in set in the late Republican/Imperatorial period that are lengthy but worth sticking with. There are also quite a lot of mystery novel series set in ancient Rome- I rather like the ones by Steven Taylor (starring "Gordianus the Finder") and Ruth Downie's "Medicus" series, about an army doctor during the reign of Hadrian. (Note that the Medicus books have different titles in the US and UK, don't get tricked into buying the same book twice.) If you also want to read about ancient Greece, Mary Renault is worth checking out, especially her trilogy about Alexander the Great ("Fire from Heaven", "The Persian Boy", and "Funeral Games").[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Parthicus, post: 4899889, member: 81887"]Robert Graves' "I, Claudius" and "Claudius the God" are the obvious but correct first choices. Colleen McCullough wrote several novels in set in the late Republican/Imperatorial period that are lengthy but worth sticking with. There are also quite a lot of mystery novel series set in ancient Rome- I rather like the ones by Steven Taylor (starring "Gordianus the Finder") and Ruth Downie's "Medicus" series, about an army doctor during the reign of Hadrian. (Note that the Medicus books have different titles in the US and UK, don't get tricked into buying the same book twice.) If you also want to read about ancient Greece, Mary Renault is worth checking out, especially her trilogy about Alexander the Great ("Fire from Heaven", "The Persian Boy", and "Funeral Games").[/QUOTE]
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