Hey there. Id like to start reading books about anything that has to do with ancient civilizations, like about the Roman Empire or about the Greeks or Egypt. I dont want anything thats fictional, just about what happened, the key figures involved, the different wars they were in, stuff like that.
by throwthisawaythx9999
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I have several reccs for Ancient Rome
A Fatal Thing Happened on the way to the Forum by Emma Southon and A Rome of Ones Own by the same author. Her tik tok speak can be a bit juvenile but I still enjoyed both books
Rubicon by Tom Holland is great and I think he narrated the audiobook himself
Pompeii and SPQR by Mary Beard
If you’re looking for ancient historical works rather than modern ones: Herodotus’ Histories, Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War, Livy’s History of Rome, Tacitus’ Annals and Histories. For Herodotus and Thucydides, the Landmark series is great–lots of maps and notes.
*Debt: The First 5000 Years* by David Graeber, or *The Dawn of Everything* by David Graeber and David Wengrow.
I know you said nothing fictional, but, this might be an exception because it was actually written in Ancient Rome:
The Satyricon by Petronius.