Looking For Books on Various Subjects

[Queequeg]

Reading Peter Green's Alexander to Actium.  Maybe the best work of history I've ever read.

Looking for something similar on Italy up to the Late Republic, anything on any period of pre-Islamic Persia, and anything on pre-Mongol China.  I'm also buying everything I can find by Green on Amazon. 

Suggestions?

[Eddie Teach]

Suggestions?

Stop reading so many history books? 

[Ed Anger]

Armada from Athens. Has all the fun stuff. Wacky Athenians to cheap ass Spartans.

http://www.amazon.com/Armada-Athens-Crossroads-world-history/dp/B0006C4WOM

[The Brain]

Which kind of history within those areas interests you the most?

[Queequeg]

Which kind of history within those areas interests you the most?

In Italy, cultural, ethnic and military.  Interested in the formation of a Roman ethnicity, the founding of the city, kingdom and Republic, assimilation of Etruscan culture and Samnite fighting styles, etc...Anything great on the Etruscans would be a godsend.

Actually, if anyone knows anything interesting on any pre-Roman Anatolian polities (the Hittite Kingdom, Pergamon, Pontus, Lydia), that'd be awesome too.

China and Persia, more cultural, religious and economic. 

[The Brain]

A couple of years ago I read Cornell's The Beginnings of Rome: Italy and Rome from the Bronze Age to the Punic Wars (c. 1000-264 BC). It was totally OK IIRC, books about that period are not as common as I would prefer so I found it informative.

Edit: A problem here is that it includes quite a bit of Roman political history.

Edit 2: Meh, not that much. I say it seems pretty nice for you.

[citizen k]

Not in your categories, but I've recently been enjoying Tarn's The Greeks in Bactria and India.

[Queequeg]

Not in your categories, but I've recently been enjoying Tarn's The Greeks in Bactria and India.

Oh holy fuck.  You know how long I've been looking for a book on Bactria? 

[Ed Anger]

Somebody's pants is a dairy factory.

[Eddie Teach]

 

[garbon]

Psellus is kind of lame. If I go to the Books section on Amazon and type in Bactria - that Tarn book is the first hit.

It was also published in 1966..

[alfred russel]

Psellus is kind of lame. If I go to the Books section on Amazon and type in Bactria - that Tarn book is the first hit.

It was also published in 1966..

I doubt Bactria has had a lot happening since 1966, so that is probably okay.

[garbon]

I doubt Bactria has had a lot happening since 1966, so that is probably okay.

On the other hand, scholarship has advanced in many areas since then.

[alfred russel]

I doubt Bactria has had a lot happening since 1966, so that is probably okay.

On the other hand, scholarship has advanced in many areas since then.

If I am going to read books about antiquity centered in that part of the world, I'm not so concerned about a somewhat old date of publication. The instability has kept away a lot of the archeology, so the scholarship is somewhat frozen in time.

[garbon]

If I am going to read books about antiquity centered in that part of the world, I'm not so concerned about a somewhat old date of publication. The instability has kept away a lot of the archeology, so the scholarship is somewhat frozen in time.

You're right. There have been no discoveries in remote areas since the '60s. Nor have their been any shift in attitudes that may help or hinder understanding of what we do have in archeological records.