Books by Tacitus
“Agricola is a tribute to his father-in-law and it’s really nice to have this family connection. A lot of ancient literature can oftentimes seem so distant and cold that it’s hard to see the human connection, but it’s strong in this book. In the introduction and especially in the conclusion you can feel the real bond that Tacitus must have felt with this person.” Read more...
The best books on Leadership: Lessons from the Ancients
Jeffrey Beneker, Classicist
“Tacitus was around within decades of Boudica’s uprising. And we have good reason to believe that he would have had good information about it. People in Rome would have been both fascinated and deeply disturbed by what had happened.” Read more...
Richard Hingley, Classicist
Interviews where books by Tacitus were recommended
The best books on Boudica, recommended by Richard Hingley
Boudica was an Iron Age queen who led her people into rebellion against Roman rule in the province of Britannia. She was defeated, but only after she had burned several towns, including London, to the ground. Here Richard Hingley, Professor of Archaeology at Durham University, explains how to sift the truth from the myth, and why Boudica has remained an enduring source of fascination down the centuries.
The best books on Ancient History in Modern Life, recommended by Mary Beard
Mary Beard, Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge, talks us through the books that have had the deepest impact on her thinking about the ancient world and explains why studying Classics is absolutely relevant to modern life.
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The Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek Lives
by Ian Scott-Kilvert & Plutarch -
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The Greek Alexander Romance
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Atticus
by Cornelius Nepos & Nicholas Horsfall -
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Agricola
by Harold Mattingly, James Rives & Tacitus -
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Lives of the Eminent Philosophers
Diogenes Laertius (ed. James Miller, trans. Pamela Mensch)
The best books on Leadership: Lessons from the Ancients, recommended by Jeffrey Beneker
The best books on Leadership: Lessons from the Ancients, recommended by Jeffrey Beneker
Whatever modern leadership books may say about what’s required to be a good leader, for the ancients there was only one vital requirement: studying philosophy. Jeffrey Beneker, Professor of Classics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, talks us through what ancient biographies reveal about how to be a leader.
