Re: Recommend me some good historical reading
OK, I wasn't going to mention this one, but since 'The Killer
Angels' got 2 more thumbs up and somebody said they like old Suetonious...here goes. 'I, Claudius' by Robert Graves is the
fictionalized account of the Claudian emperors as told by the ancient historians and butt knockers Tacitus, Plutarch, and Suetonious. Based on fact, this is a view into the murderous den of snakes that largely founded the world we live in. The BBC TV series is just as good as the book. You can learn as much about Rome reading this delicious piece of fiction as reading all of smelly old Edward Gibbon. Once you
pick it up, there is no putting it down until the last poisoned mushroom.
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