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Rhetoric: Ancient Times: 5000 B.C. - 400 A.D.

A Concise History of Spain (Cambridge Concise Histories) by William D. Phillips and Carla Rahn Phillips (Nonfiction/Survey history--Paleolithic Era-Present)

 

Britain Begins by Barry Cunliffe (Nonfiction/Britain/Ireland/Archaeology/DNA/History survey--10,000 B.C.-1066 A.D.)

 

Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, and Science by Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos (Nonfiction/Survey--7000 B.C.-21st century)

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Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient World  by Philip Matyszak (Nonfiction/Brief profiles of forty lesser-known peoples/Includes maps and photos--3000 B.C.-550 A.D.)

 

Cuneiform by Irving Finkel (Sumerian Mesopotamia--c. 3200 B.C.)

 

Epic of Gilgamesh (Mesopotamia--2700-600 B.C.)


String, Straight-Edge, and Shadow by Julia E. Diggins (Nonfiction/History of Geometry--2600 B.C.-approx, 31 B.C.)

 

Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization by Paul Kriwaczek (Nonfiction/History--c. 1800-539 B.C.)

 

The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code by Margalit Fox (Nonfiction/Ancient Crete/Earliest recorded language/Linear B--1450 B.C.)

 

The Iliad  by Homer (Mycenaean Greece/Troy--1194-1184 B.C.)

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The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker (Novel/Iliad retelling/Viewpoint of Briseis--1194-1184 B.C.)

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Troy by Adele Geras (Novel/Final weeks of Trojan War/Viewpoint of women of Troy--1184)

 

The Aeneid by Virgil (Troy/Rome--1184 B.C. on)

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Livinia by Ursula K. Le Guin (Ancient Rome/Retelling of the last six books of The AeneidViewpoint of Livinia, second wife of Aeneas)

 

The Odyssey by Homer (Ancient Greece--1184-1164 B.C.)


Shadow Spinner by Susan Fletcher (Persia)

 

Plutarch Lives by Plutarch (Nonfiction/Biographical Sketches/Famous Greeks and Romans/Theseus to Mark Antony--c. 820 B.C.-30 B.C.)

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Till We Have Faces: A Novel of Cupid and Psyche by C. S. Lewis (Novel/Based on Roman myths that began to be recorded--8th-century B.C.)

 

The History of Rome by Livy (Nonfiction/most contemporary history--753-9 B.C.)

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The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories by Herodotus, ed. by Robert B. Strassler (Nonfiction/Most contemporary account/Rise of Persia through Greco-Persian War--550-479 B.C.)

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Aeschylus I: The Oresteia (Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Lumenides, Proteus) by Aeschylus (Plays/Greek tragedies/I like the translations in this University of Chicago Press edition--Aeschylus wrote between 499-456 B.C.)

 

Aeschylus II: he Persians, The Seven Against Thebes, The Suppliant Maidens, Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus (Plays/Greek tragedies/I like the translations in this University of Chicago Press edition--Aeschylus wrote between 499-456 B.C.)

 

Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield (Novel/Battle of Thermopylae/Greco-Persian Wars--480 B.C.)

 

Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus (Plays/Greek tragedies/I like the translations in this University of Chicago Press edition--Sophocles wrote between 442-409 B.C.)

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Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers (Plays/Greek tragedies/I like the translations in this University of Chicago Press edition--Sophocles wrote between 442-409 B.C.)

 

(The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides ed. by Robert B. Strassler (Nonfiction/Peloponnesian War/Most contemporary account--431-411 B.C.)

 

The Last Days of Socrates by Plato (Four dialogues--403 B.C.)

 

Hjortspring: A Pre-Roman Iron Age Warship in Context (Ships & Boats of the North) by Ole Crumlin-Pedersen (Nonfiction/Iron Age boatbuilding/Scandinavia--4th century B.C.)

 

Twelve Caesars by Seutonius (Earliest biographies/Julius Caesar to Domitian--60 B.C.-96 A.D.)

 

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (Play/Ancient Rome--44 B.C.)

 

Cleopatra's Moon by Vicky Alvear Shecter (Novel/Cleopatra's daughter, Selene/Rome/Egypt--30 B.C.)

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The Great Fire of Rome: Life and Death in the Ancient City by Joseph J. Walsh [Witness to Ancient History series] (Nonfiction--64 A.D.)

 

The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff (Roman Britain--119 A.D.)

 

The Silver Branch by Rosemary Sutcliff (Roman Britain--approx. 286-296 A.D.)

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