Is there a chart or reading order for getting the full story of the rise and fall of Rome and everything in between? I'd prefer ancient texts like picrel, but I'd be open to more modern texts.
>>18244038Livy is a good startTacitus and Dio (if you can parse through the court gossip) and Polybius for one of the most rational takes on the Early and Mid-RepublicThe late Republican period must not be overlooked though as it set up the Imperial Age. But here you have to be careful, do you go with or against the grain?The grain being that Caesar did nothing wrong
>>18244042Thanks. So I should read it in sections like: early Republic -> mid Republic -> late Republic -> early Empire -> mid Empire -> late Empire?
>>18244038Weird approach might be to start woth Augustine's list of sources from City of God.
>>18244051nta but that's what I did. It's always worth reading an intro to a period before you start on the sources so you have something to go off on. I also read Plutarch first for each period since character studies and biographies work well as intros. I'd go something like early Plutarch to Livy, Polybius, more Livy and Plutarch, Appian, Sallust, Caesar, Cassius Dio and Cicero for the Republic. Suetonius, Tacitus, more Dio, Josephus and then a combination of Dio and Herodian. Historia Augusta if you want to read that too but it's mostly rubbish. Ammianus and then Procopius are the last major historians you would probably find interesting, because other than them there are dozens of more minor, not so well written works which describe Late Antiquity, which overall is far more than earlier periods but not so comprehensive.
>>18244038That stuff is all mythical. It's not real. Look at actual historical works. Those primary sources can barely tell you anything of value. Just how later Romans viewed themselves.
>>18244597>Female authorIdk man
>>18244038This is pretty good
>>18244038Florus' Epitome of Roman history (self-explanatory) this is probably exactly what you are looking for, seeing as though I'm assuming you don't want to get into the autistic details yet, covers history broadly from Aeneas to Augustus.
