Books on Ancient Greece and Rome - Historathon Pile of Possibilities Quarter 1

[@revenantreads]

Great selections. I’ve had my eye on that Julian bio.

[@TriumphalReads]

Yeah it should be cool

[@StormReads]

📚 Enjoy your history books. 🙂

[@TriumphalReads]

I'll try!

[@colonelmustardinthelibrary]

A great selection of books! I'm only reading one book for Q1 right now.

[@TriumphalReads]

Yeah once i finish the history of biology book I'm going to start focusing on the ancient history specifically. Not sure how many biographies I'll want to do so I added a bunch of those social history types. Glad you joined in!

[@BryanM.R.-prionic1]

Very nice! I'm almost certain I have another book by Jean Bottero -- pretty sure it's about Mesopotamian religion. I had a professor with a thing for Eratosthenes. He demanded that we be able to write a detailed exam response describing his circumference evaluation procedure, including diagrams of all the geometry involved. I could appreciate the ingenuity of it all, but I finished that class feeling I'd spent more than enough time with Eratosthenes. 😂 The book about pessimistic Thucydides sounds promising to me, but Barbarians in the Gates, Hannibal's Road, Julian, and Nero could be a lot of fun as well. All the best with your Q1 reading, and I look forward to hearing about whatever you go with.

[@TriumphalReads]

Incan see why Thucydides would be pessimistic haha. I like Eratoshtenes because the circumference thing was only one of the things he did. Apparently back then there was a joke that he was only the second best in literally every academic field but never number 1 or something lol

[@rushy9895]

Currently trying to work through SPQR & then I’m onto Nero myself!

[@TriumphalReads]

Awesome, sounds like a great plan!

[@EFergDindrane]

I actually really like Julian; contemporaries, even his enemies, seemed to think he was shockingly honest for a politician, and I've always found that fascinating in the political machine that was Rome.

[@TriumphalReads]

Yeah he was very direct it seems from what I've remembered reading about him. And yeah that was not the norm in the 4th century haha

[@bartycrouchjr.8831]

Hi from the city that ancient greeks used to call it Smyrna! 😂 Great guide!

[@TriumphalReads]

Hi, glad you liked it!

[@stuartgriffin1001]

I would definitely be interested in hearing you talk about Roman emperors. I am going to be reading some history books this year, but they may not exactly fit in the historathon quarters

[@TriumphalReads]

It's not a big deal if they don't fit in really. A lot of histories cover a bunch of quarters or it doesn't really make sense to put them in like that

[@stuartgriffin1001]

@TriumphalReads Thanks. Knowing that, I will take part. I will read 4 history books in 2025

[@NicholasOfAutrecourt]

Glycerius or bust!

[@TriumphalReads]

Tbh it's Anthemius, Tacitus, or Silbannacus, but go on. 🫠

[@SecretHistory1113]

If you like stuff about Sumerians I highly recommend any book by Samuel Noah Kraemer or George Smith. I could use a recommendation for a book about the Spartans?!

[@TriumphalReads]

I've read Paul Cartledges book on Sparta and Paul Rahe has some good ones as well

[@SecretHistory1113]

My 2025 mandatory Reading List Secret Teaching of All Ages Secret Destiny of America Journeys out of the Body Maya folio Aztec folio Inca folio Popol Vuh Book of Hermetica Myths of Enki Inanna myths and poems The Day After Roswell Quantum Physics The Quantum Universe Serpent in the Sky Inanna Mastery of Love Mastery of Knowledge Timias and Critias Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrection vol 1 Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrection vol 2 Stone Circles Eden Enigma Ufo Brasil Quantum Supremacy Hyperspace Parallel worlds The Illiad The Odyssey Tibetan Book of the Dead

[@TriumphalReads]

Lots of interesting stuff. I've seen that folio society set and have considered adding it to the collection

[@SecretHistory1113]

@ you should. I got lucky and sniped it for 75$ in NYC. They’re my only folios. Id like to get my hands on the Near East and Viking sets

[@TriumphalReads]

@SecretHistory1113 I have both of those and they are great. Congrats on the find