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896db1 No.141

ANCIENT HISTORY THREAD

Requesting The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon.

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896db1 No.142

File: 1416341807859-0.pdf (5.83 MB,Adrian Goldsworthy - Augus….pdf)

File: 1416341807860-1.jpg (43.41 KB,318x500,159:250,51B9-JmY65L.jpg)

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896db1 No.143

You can find it on Libgen. It's too big to upload here though, sorry.
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896db1 No.151

Never mind, found it.
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896db1 No.324

File: 1419398735118.jpeg (80.97 KB,800x580,40:29,1406702802091.jpeg)

>>141
>abridged
Maximum Plebian
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896db1 No.347

>>141

It's also on Project Gutenberg:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25717?msg=welcome_stranger

It's a great work. I have a physical copy. I also recommend The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire by Edward Luttwak (wish I had a digital copy)
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896db1 No.512

File: 1422358102583.jpg (7.89 KB,200x318,100:159,montesquieus-consideration….jpg)

https://archive.org/details/cu31924028288722

like a mix of machiavelli and gibbon
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896db1 No.513

File: 1422370089236-0.pdf (2.47 MB,Polybius,_Robin_Waterfield….pdf)

File: 1422370089236-1.jpg (28.87 KB,228x346,114:173,polybius.jpg)

>Polybius (/pəˈlɪbiəs/; Greek: Πολύβιος, Polýbios; c. 200 – c. 118 BC) was a Greek historian of the Hellenistic Period noted for his work, The Histories, which covered the period of 264–146 BC in detail. The work describes the rise of the Roman Republic to 'world power' (i.e. domination over the Mediterranean world). Polybius is also renowned for his ideas concerning the separation of powers in government, later used in Montesquieu's The Spirit of the Laws and in the drafting of the United States Constitution.

>Only the first five books survive in full, but there are extensive excerpts from many of the others, including Book 12, an analysis of how to write history (and how not to write it), and Book 6, a study of the Roman constitution.
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896db1 No.562

File: 1422842482417-0.pdf (1.43 MB,Logistics of the Roman Arm….pdf)

File: 1422842482417-1.pdf (5.97 MB,Dacia - Landscape, Coloniz….pdf)

Logistics of the Roman Army at War

Dacia: Landscape, Colonization and Romanization
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896db1 No.563

File: 1422843467653.pdf (3.38 MB,J. H. C. Williams-Beyond t….pdf)

Beyond the Rubicon: Romans and Gauls in Republican Italy

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Becoming Roman: The Origins of Provincial Civilization in Gaul:
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=D984CF29F3B2253C4D6D9EE60C5FF54C

Roman aristocratic parties and families:
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=c39062e7bd2e1cc42ec2aa5c2783663e
^ A ridiculously in-depth book on the subject ^
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896db1 No.843

File: 1425567054128-0.pdf (6.93 MB,Luttwak - Grand Strategy O….pdf)

File: 1425567054128-1.jpg (11.6 KB,200x324,50:81,grand-strategy-roman-empir….jpg)

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896db1 No.844

File: 1425567155220-0.pdf (4.85 MB,Luttwak - Grand Strategy O….pdf)

>>843
part 2
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896db1 No.1161

>>141
>Requesting The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon.
ePub, Mobi, PDF here:
http://libgen.org/search.php?req=Edward%20Gibbon&column=author
Open the links and click the cover or click [1] on the right for the libgen mirror to the file.
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896db1 No.1285

File: 1430334570897-0.pdf (2.39 MB,Edward N. Luttwak - The Gr….pdf)

File: 1430334570899-1.jpg (94.25 KB,394x600,197:300,byzant.jpg)

edward n. luttwak - the grand strategy of the byzantine empire

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896db1 No.1303

Any good books on Roman citizen lifestyle or daily routine

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896db1 No.1369

>>1303

Funnily enough I read Alberto Angela's A Day in the Life of Ancient Rome: Daily Life, Mysteries, and Curiosities

I don't have a .pdf of it, because I went ahead and bought a hard copy of a local bookshop. But I can recommend that book though, it was a good one. Kinda makes our modern society looks bit silly with it's ~8 hour workdays.

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896db1 No.4719

File: 14690ac03db2120⋯.pdf (2.14 MB,The Iliad- Alexander Pope.pdf)

The Illiad by Homer. I think this is translated by Alexander Pope. The original uploader wasn't clear.

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896db1 No.4730

File: 07ba0e1c6cc9566⋯.pdf (3.18 MB,Livy's History of Rome.pdf)

Livy's History of Rome

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896db1 No.4731

File: 4af626cf64765fd⋯.pdf (8.78 MB,caesar de bello gallico 1.pdf)

Caesar's Gallic War

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896db1 No.4904

>>141

>The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon

I know this thread is over two years old, but just a heads up to any anons wanting to read this: it's very, very outdated and incorrect on many points. I'd only recommend it to people wanting to know how people in the 19th century viewed history, not as a credible book about Roman history itself.

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896db1 No.4906

>>4904

Do you have recommendations?

Also if a thread has content on it I want it to stay on the board, so don't worry about bumping old threads

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896db1 No.4907

>>4904

collingwood describes the main defects of gibbon and other enlightenment era historians here:

>>2832

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896db1 No.4914

File: bb20383ab6032da⋯.pdf (3.91 MB,The_Characters_of_Theophra….pdf)

File: cbe9b192da65c26⋯.png (387.26 KB,412x507,412:507,Shameless Greed.png)

File: cad9cfc9c48e296⋯.png (338.49 KB,634x516,317:258,Thefabricatorofnews.png)

File: f3002a8e79994a1⋯.png (313.09 KB,520x675,104:135,mostexcellentsir.png)

This guy Theophrastus was the successor of Aristotle's peripatetic school in Athens. He wrote a book called 'Characters' or 'Character Sketches' which outlines various moral types like The Sordid or The Loquacious or The Ostentatious for example.

Anyways, these descriptions of characters were illustrated in the late 1800s rather humorously and I've been trying to pull some good memes. The illustrations resemble our merchant friends a little bit i think.

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896db1 No.4915

>>4914

These are rather good! Saved.

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896db1 No.4917

File: 43bf5f1cc24c5b5⋯.jpg (161.67 KB,474x595,474:595,43bf5f1cc24c5b5c6a10f5054e….jpg)

>>4914

>shameless Greed

>fabricator of news

see pic related

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8a2b58 No.6179

File: 526eea299704fbb⋯.png (794.39 KB,526x873,526:873,1.PNG)

File: 0ff472fa49ffc22⋯.png (445.04 KB,515x881,515:881,4.PNG)

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>>4914

love me some ancient maymays

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a55955 No.6542

Does anybody have anything on nero?

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b43e7f No.6560

Archaic Roman Religion by Dumezil is of superlative dankness, although the "preliminary remarks" go on for a hundred and fifty pages.

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4f13f3 No.7437

File: 1fbbad98554db47⋯.jpg (40.6 KB,640x439,640:439,1fbbad98554db47ba39d83ee9f….jpg)

>>562

First sentence of the preface

>This book developed out of my dissertation, The Logistics of the Roman Army in the Jewish War (66–73 A.D.), Columbia University, 1991

Likely a jew, and most certainly reliant on Josephus. In the first few chapters there are also some major leaps in logic; nonetheless good to have?

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7b7209 No.8940

File: 88f090f8f82d8ad⋯.jpg (51.31 KB,316x500,79:125,the ancient city.jpg)

http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=3AB25CFE9B8AF2CDD1636ECFD9E380EA

>Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges - The Ancient City: A Study of the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Greece and Rome

>La Cité antique (1864)

>This influential survey synthesizes ancient documents and physical evidence to build an account of religious, family, and civic life of Periclean Athens and Rome during the time of Cicero. In bypassing the body of often-glorified post-Classical histories, it builds an accurate and detailed depiction of Hellenic and Latin urban culture.

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58e6de No.9372

File: 98df9df1c569f49⋯.jpg (38.21 KB,332x499,332:499,lot.jpg)

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.24768

>Ferdinand Lot - The End Of The Ancient World

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Lot

>His masterpiece, The End of the Ancient World and the Beginnings of the Middle Ages (1927), presents an alternative and possibly more objective account of the fall of the Roman Empire than does Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, which set the tone for Enlightenment scholarship blaming the fall of classical civilization on Christianity.

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210758 No.9444

File: 6fa88d72f461397⋯.jpg (44.07 KB,329x500,329:500,the science of roman histo….jpg)

http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=638A2108AB44076E8DC1A05F4EB6BCDC

>Walter Scheidel - The Science of Roman History: Biology, Climate, and the Future of the Past

>How the latest cutting-edge science offers a fuller picture of life in Rome and antiquity

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0c855f No.10916

File: d4402f64e031d2d⋯.jpg (32.63 KB,328x499,328:499,gladiator.jpg)

http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=763A56DD18104B36260F9A0B3D2A391C

>Philip Matyszak - Gladiator, the roman fighter's unofficial manual

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2127de No.12624

File: fe0534b39855c8d⋯.jpg (117.32 KB,740x400,37:20,arxaioelliniko-trapezi-etr….jpg)

http://www.attalus.org/info/athenaeus.html

>Athenaeus: Deipnosophists

>Athenaeus was a native of Naucratis, a Greek city in Egypt, and he wrote the Deipnosophists in the early part of the 3rd century A.D. It is a long and extremely diffuse work, which is presented as a series of erudite discussions over dinner. Athenaeus includes frequent quotations from earlier authors, especially from the writers of comedies, which give us a fascinating glimpse of a wide range of ancient Greek life and literature that would otherwise be unknown. Naturally, food and drink are the most common topic of conversation throughout, but often that is merely the starting point for long digressions.

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5841c3 No.12627

File: 32fa9762085971e⋯.pdf (8.21 MB,Prehistory Decoded by Mart….pdf)

File: 65f6adbd0407913⋯.jpg (219.6 KB,588x990,98:165,Prehistory Decoded by Mart….jpg)

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