Topic
Ancient Rome
3 reading guides and book lists curated by the Editors Reads team.
3 posts
Where to Start with Mary Beard: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Mary Beard — how to approach SPQR, her comprehensive and revisionist history of ancient Rome that asks the questions about Roman identity and citizenship that still resonate today. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Seneca: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Seneca — how to approach Letters from a Stoic, his personal letters to Lucilius that are the warmest and most engaging of all the Stoic primary sources. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Virgil: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Virgil — how to approach The Aeneid, the epic that founded Rome's mythology and shaped Western literature for two thousand years. A complete reading guide.
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