Looking for books from Ancient Rome/Greek?

Question

No Philosophy or Teather. Only History.
I'm loohing for descriptions about wars and cities, like Tito Flavio e Cicero. I need their names to checouk out through internet, perhaps on gutemberg.org.
Ancient Historians from Egypt, India and Japan would be welcome too.

Please, give some Authors, Writer Name.
I know how to search, I need only find keywords to get only the ancient.

There are one special that descripe entire war process. How they arrived, locked up all exists and entrances and after a while, they get in the city. It was in MiddleEast

Answer 1

Its sound like you may be looking for books by Herodutos: http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/h#a828

or Thucydides: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/7142

Also, check out Julius Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/10657

Answer 2

Penguin classics Publishes a vast amount of traslated acient historians from ancient times. Some of the name are Plutark, Arian, Quintus Curtius Rufis and Levi. They are all very reasonably priced. are are fairly durable for referencing a few times. Many of them can be purchased on Amazon.com at even cheeper prices that book stores. Once you have bought one. There is a list of the others in the back.

Answer 3

Here's two great and helpful books.

I, Claudius by Robert Graves
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland

There is also this book by a guy named Paul Gibbon on the rise and fall of the roman empire. (I think the title is just that: The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire).

Answer 4

Try "The History of the Peloponnesian War" by Herodotus

Available at Amazon.com

Answer 5

There is the siege of Babylon as described by Herodotus, but I'm not sure if this is the one you're thinking of.
http://www.livius.org/da-dd/darius/darius_i_t07.html

You can find a lot of ancient Greek and Roman texts here:
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cache/perscoll_Greco-Roman.html#text1

Answer 6

1.Herodotus was the father of History, he is very interesting.
2.Thucydides, an ancient Greek general who written history is a great mind and a great historian.

Answer 7

you wont find books as there wernt any as such only schrolls and mostly its only parpyras that survives if you want manuscips the ealyest we have are medevel which are the oldest copyes we have but good luck trying to get thoses

Answer 8

Go to Perseus org.There are too many ,on line and free

Answer 9

check amazon.co.uk or you can also check any library which would have many books on ancient rome/greek history