Like you, I find ancient Rome to be endlessly fascinating (I see you're reading Mary Beard's history, <i>SPQR</i>). Don't know what it is about Rome that is so much more interesting (to me) than other great civilizations like the Chinese, Babylonian, Egyptian, Incan, etc., but there you are. As I may have mentioned before, I strongly recommend the series of historical novels by John Maddox Roberts that follows the career of the fictional Decius Caecilius Metellus the Younger from the late Republic to the foundation of the Empire under Augustus.
Like you, I find ancient Rome to be endlessly fascinating (I see you're reading Mary Beard's history, <i>SPQR</i>). Don't know what it is about Rome that is so much more interesting (to me) than other great civilizations like the Chinese, Babylonian, Egyptian, Incan, etc., but there you are. As I may have mentioned before, I strongly recommend the series of historical novels by John Maddox Roberts that follows the career of the fictional Decius Caecilius Metellus the Younger from the late Republic to the foundation of the Empire under Augustus.
Already have it on my list. Along with Tom Holland's Pax and Mary Beard's new books. Thanks!