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
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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
>>141>abridgedMaximum Plebian
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896db1 No.347
>>141It's also on Project Gutenberg:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25717?msg=welcome_strangerIt'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
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896db1 No.513
>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
Logistics of the Roman Army at War
Dacia: Landscape, Colonization and Romanization
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896db1 No.563
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=D984CF29F3B2253C4D6D9EE60C5FF54CRoman 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
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896db1 No.844
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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=authorOpen 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
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
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
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896db1 No.4731
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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
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
>>4914
>shameless Greed
>fabricator of news
see pic related
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8a2b58 No.6179
>>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
>>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
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
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
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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2127de No.12624
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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