/lit/ - Literature

Reminder that Brutus did literally nothing wrong

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http://www.amazon.com/History-Rome-Michael-Grant/dp/0023456108

This book is a great introduction to roman history from the founding to the fall of the western half. A good intro for the eastern or byzantine half which survived a further thousand years would be "lost to the west" by Lars brownworth. Byzantium is often forgetten, though they preserved most of our current knowledge on ancient Greece and rome., as well as being a shield for the west during the dark days against Islam and mongols. As well, the migration of byzantine scholars from Constantinople and the east was a catalyst for the Renaissance.