The History of Rome

A weekly podcast tracing the history of the Roman Empire, beginning with Aeneas's arrival in Italy and ending with the exile of Romulus Augustulus, last Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. Now complete!

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Audible Book Recommendations

  1. 12 Caesars by Seutonius
  2. The Roman Way by Edith Hamilton
  3. Roman Lives by Plutarch
  4. The Satires by Juvenal
  5. The Roman Empire: A Very Short Introduction by Christopher Kelly
  6. March of Folly by Barbara Tuchman
  7. Augustus by Anthony Everitt
  8. Rubicon by Tom Holland
  9. Lost to the West by Lars Brownworth
  10. The Jewish Wars by Josephus
  11. Hannibal: One Man Against Rome by Harold Lamb
  12. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
  13. Rome at War: Farms, Families, and Death in the Middle Republic by Nathan Rosenstein
  14. The Spartacus War by Barry Strauss
  15. Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
  16. Rome and the Mediterranean by Polybius
  17. The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
  18. A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman
  19. The Roman Empire and Julius Caesar by iMinds (for kids)
  20. Cleopatra and Antony by Diana Preston
  21. The Peloponnesian Wars by Thucydides
  22. The Histories by Herodotus
  23. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
  24. Pompeii: Life of a Roman Town by Mary Beard
  25. Caesar's Legion by Stephen Dando-Collins
  26. The Ghosts of Cannae by Robert O'Connell
  27. How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill
  28. The Great Fire of Rome by Stephen Dando-Collins
  29. The Invasion of Europe by the Barbarians by J.B. Bury
  30. The History of Britain Vol. 1 by Simon Schama
  31. Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
  32. Marathon: The Battled That Changed Western Civilization
  33. The Ides: Caesar's Murder and The War for Rome by Stephen Dand-Collins
  34. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jake Weatherford (thanks to Charles)
  35. Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand (thanks to GrandpaD)
  36. The Poison King by Adrienne Mayor
  37. Julius Caesar by Samual Willard Crompton
  38. The Big Short by Michael Lewis (thanks to Casey)
  39. I, Claudius by Robert Graves (thanks to Daniel)
  40. Imperium and Conspirata by Robert Harris (thanks to Paul)

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