Suggested Books and Articles

Punic Wars
- Adrian Goldsworthy, The Punic Wars
- Robert L. O’Connell, Ghosts of Cannae
- Adrian Goldsworthy, The Fall of Carthage
- Livy, History of Rome
- Polybius, Histories
- D.S. Lavene, Livy on the Hannibalic War (great beginner prose translation for Punic 2.)
Caesar’s campaigns
- Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Civili
- Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico
- Adrian Goldsworthy, Caesar, Life of a Colossus
- Julius Caesar, The Seven Commentaries on The Gallic War with an Eighth Commentary by Aulus Hirtius (translated by Carolyn – Hammond/published by Oxford World’s Classics)
(edited)
Wars in Italy
- Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Civili
- Howard Hayes Scullard, From the Gracchi to Nero (great Sulla source.)
- Harriet I. Flowers, Roman Republics (another great source on Sulla.)
(edited)
Greco-Roman Wars
- Justin, Epitome of Philippic History
- Plutarch, Pyrrhus
(edited)
Roman history in general
- Mary Beard, SPQR
- Polybius, Histories
- Livy, History of Rome

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