05-19-2005, 06:00 PM
I finished all the surviving books from Livy. I really love reading history from ancient sources, and this narrative was excellent reading. Modern history books are extremely boring to me, as they are usually organized in an un-chronological, convoluted way that obscures many of the lessons to be learned from history.
Now I need to find another source to learn from the fall of Macedon forward. I'm reading Plutarch's lives right now, but I'm hoping for a similar narrative style to that of Livy that covers the period after 140 B.C. or so.
I'm asking anyone who knows, if you could create a complete Roman history exclusively from ancient authors, using the *fewest* authors possible to get complete coverage accross time, what would the reading list be? and in what order?
Now I need to find another source to learn from the fall of Macedon forward. I'm reading Plutarch's lives right now, but I'm hoping for a similar narrative style to that of Livy that covers the period after 140 B.C. or so.
I'm asking anyone who knows, if you could create a complete Roman history exclusively from ancient authors, using the *fewest* authors possible to get complete coverage accross time, what would the reading list be? and in what order?
Rich Marinaccio
