Expert: Maria - 2/28/2005

Question
Hi, Maria. Congratulations and thanks for what you do here. I´m from Argentina, I feel passion about antique history, especially roman and greek one. I simply want to know the titles of the best 5 books u read about this cultures, including historical, biographies or even history novels. This will really help me a lot. Many many thanks!

Answer
Hi Leonardo,

Glad to help you.

So here are some books I can suggest to you.

-The Oxford History of Greece & the Hellenistic World
by John Boardman (Editor), Jasper Griffin (Editor), Oswyn Murray (Editor)

-The Oxford History of the Roman World
by John Boardman, Jasper Griffin, Oswyn Murray "

-The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire [ABRIDGED]  by Edward Gibbon, David Womersley

-Alexander of Macedon 356-323 B.C.: A Historical Biography
by Peter Green

-Spartacus by James Lewis Mitchell, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Ian Campbell.

There are of course many other texts, but for the moment it is enough, I think.

Greetings from Italy.
Maria