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Roman Empire

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Ancient Rome

What Life Was Like: When Rome Ruled the World: The Roman Empire 100 bc to ad 200. Time-Life, 1997. A readable, illustrated introduction for younger readers.

Adkins, Lesley, and Roy A. Adkins. Handbook to Life in Ancient Rome. Facts on File, Reprint, Oxford University Press, 1997. 1998. A comprehensive reference covering more than 1,200 years of the Roman Empire; includes 150 illustrations.

Amery, Heather, and Patricia Vanags. Rome and Romans. Educational Development Center, 1998. A volume in the popular Time-Traveler series. For middle school readers.

Burrell, Roy, and Peter Connolly. The Romans. Oxford University Press, 1998. Covers the 2,000 years of the Roman Empire. For elementary and middle school readers.

Connolly, Peter, and Hazel Dodge. The Ancient City: Life in Classical Athens and Rome. Oxford University Press, 1998. Details what it was like to live in the capital cities of the classical world. For middle school and high school readers.

Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Strahan, Reprint, Penguin, 1783-1790. 1995. Classic and still controversial account by an 18th-century historian; sometimes abridged.

Grant, Michael. The Roman Emperors: A Biographical Guide to the Rulers of Imperial Rome, 31 B.C. - A.D. 476. Barnes & Noble, 1997. An illustrated reconstruction of the lives of Rome's 92 emperors.

Honan, Linda, and Ellen Kosmer. Spend the Day in Ancient Rome: Projects and Activities That Bring the Past to Life. Wiley, 1998. Fun, easy activities and projects that help students relive Roman life in the summer of ad 125; activities combine Roman art, history, and sociology and include Roman games, shield making, draping a toga, and food preparation. For younger readers.

Kohne, Eckart and Cornelia Ewigleben, eds. Gladiators and Caesars: The Power of Spectacle in Ancient Rome. University of California Press, 2000. A spectacular study of gladiators and other forms of Roman public entertainment.

MacDonald, Fiona. So You Want to Be a Roman Soldier. Millbrook, 1999. The life of a Roman soldier detailed for elementary school readers.

Mann, Elizabeth, and Michael Racz. The Roman Colosseum: The Story of the World's Most Famous Stadium and Its Deadly Games. Mikaya, 1998. The story of the famous yet sinister edifice. For middle school readers.

Mommsen, Theodor. History of Rome under the Emperors. Routledge, 1999. A classic, Nobel Prize-winning work that is still the benchmark volume on the Roman emperors and their reigns.

Nardo, Don. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Lucent, 1998. A compact history of the rise and fall of the first world power. For middle school readers and up.

Nardo, Don. Rulers of Ancient Rome. Lucent, 1998. Profiles of the rulers of Rome. For elementary through high school readers.

Santosuosso, Antonio. Storming the Heavens: Soldiers, Emperors, and Civilians in the Roman Empire. Westview, 2001. A rare and illuminating perspective on the internal dynamics of Rome and the social turmoil.

Sheehan, Sean, and Patricia M. Levy. The Ancient World of Rome. Raintree Steck-Vaughn, 1999. An exploration of the Roman world, for elementary through high school readers.

Snedden, Robert. Technology in the Time of Ancient Rome. Raintree Steck-Vaughn, 1998. The inventions and technologies of the Roman period. For elementary and middle school readers.

For younger readers

Green, Robert. Julius Caesar. Franklin Watts, 1996. For readers in grades 5 to 8.

Nardo, Don. The Age of Augustus. Lucent, 1997. For middle school readers.

Nardo, Don. The Roman Empire. Lucent, 1994. For middle school readers.

Patent, Dorothy Hinshaw. Lost City of Pompeii. Marshall Cavendish, 1999. For middle school and high school readers.

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