La Roma de los Césares
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bibliotheca 230 books · 21 on the shelf
what to read about ancient rome
everything a spanish-language reader can get hold of today — fiction, scholarship, popular history, comics and the ancient sources — catalogued. no stars, no prices: the edition, how demanding it is, and where to find it.
itinera — where do i start?
five to seven books in a deliberate order ⁕ bibliotheca · in fieri ⁕
the itineraries are being drawn
an itinerary is an argument, and arguments are written slowly. meanwhile: the register is below, entire.
↓ to the registerin manibus — what dídac has in hand
↵ the whole shelf-
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El primer hombre de Roma
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La corona de hierba
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Favoritos de la fortuna
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Las mujeres de César
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registrum — the whole catalogue
- a ficha is a book that has earned its own page: it carries a verdict, its historiographic standing, a complete and verified bibliographic record, and links to the corpus entries it sustains. the rest of the catalogue is listed but not judged — we would rather say nothing than say something unread.
| auctor | titulus | annus | genus | periodus | exigencia | ficha |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| middle republic | ||||||
| santiago posteguillo | Trilogía de Africanus series · iii | 2006 | ||||
| posteguillo, s. | Africanus. El hijo del cónsul i/iii | 2006 | fiction | middle republic | entry | |
| posteguillo, s. | Las legiones malditas ii/iii | fiction | middle republic | entry | ||
| posteguillo, s. | La traición de Roma iii/iii | fiction | middle republic | entry | ||
| late republic | ||||||
| colleen mccullough | Señores de Roma series · vii | 1990–07 | ||||
| mccullough, c. | El primer hombre de Roma i/vii | 1990 | fiction | late republic | middling | |
| mccullough, c. | La corona de hierba ii/vii | 1991 | fiction | late republic | middling | |
| mccullough, c. | Favoritos de la fortuna iii/vii | 1993 | fiction | late republic | middling | |
| mccullough, c. | Las mujeres de César iv/vii | 1996 | fiction | late republic | middling | |
| mccullough, c. | César v/vii | 1997 | fiction | late republic | middling | |
| mccullough, c. | El caballo de César vi/vii | 2002 | fiction | late republic | middling | |
| mccullough, c. | Antonio y Cleopatra vii/vii | 2007 | fiction | late republic | middling | |
| robert harris | Trilogía de Cicerón series · iii | 2006–15 | ||||
| harris, r. | Imperium i/iii | 2006 | fiction | late republic | middling | |
| harris, r. | Conspiración ii/iii | 2009 | fiction | late republic | middling | |
| harris, r. | Dictator iii/iii | 2015 | fiction | late republic | middling | |
| santiago posteguillo | Serie Julio César series · iii | 2022–25 | ||||
| posteguillo, s. | Roma soy yo i/iii | 2022 | fiction | late republic | entry | |
| posteguillo, s. | Maldita Roma ii/iii | 2023 | fiction | late republic | entry | |
| posteguillo, s. | Los tres mundos iii/iii | 2025 | fiction | late republic | entry | |
| crisis of the iii c. | ||||||
| santiago posteguillo | Yo, Julia series · ii | 2018–20 | ||||
| posteguillo, s. | Yo, Julia i/ii | 2018 | fiction | crisis of the iii c. | entry | |
| posteguillo, s. | Y Julia retó a los dioses ii/ii | 2020 | fiction | crisis of the iii c. | entry | |
| auctor | titulus | annus | genus | periodus | exigencia | ficha |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| monarchy | ||||||
| dumézil, g. | La religión romana arcaica | 1966 | scholarship | monarchy | academic | |
| north hopkins, j. | The Genesis of Roman Architecture | 2016 | scholarship | monarchy | academic | |
| wiseman, t. | Remus: A Roman Myth | 1995 | scholarship | monarchy | academic | |
| early republic | ||||||
| l. h. barnes, c. | Images and Insults: Ancient Historiography and the Outbreak of the Tarentine War | scholarship | early republic | academic | ||
| t. salmon, e. | Samnium and the Samnites | 1967 | scholarship | early republic | academic | |
| salmon, e. | Samnium and the Samnites | 1967 | scholarship | early republic | academic | |
| forsythe, g. | A Critical History of Early Rome: From Prehistory to the First Punic War | 2005 | scholarship | early republic | academic | |
| hölkeskamp, k. | Die Entstehung der Nobilität | 1987 | scholarship | early republic | academic | |
| a. raaflaub (ed.), k. | Social Struggles in Archaic Rome: New Perspectives on the Conflict of the Orders | 1986 | scholarship | early republic | academic | |
| ogilvie, r. | A Commentary on Livy, Books 1–5 | 1965 | scholarship | early republic | academic | |
| oakley, s. | A Commentary on Livy, Books VI–X | 1997 | scholarship | early republic | academic | |
| cornell, t. | Los orígenes de Roma, c. 1000-264 a.C.: Italia y Roma de la Edad del Bronce a las guerras púnicas | 1995 | scholarship | early republic | academic | |
| middle republic | ||||||
| m. eckstein, a. | Rome Enters the Greek East: From Anarchy to Hierarchy in the Hellenistic Mediterranean, 230-170 BC | 2008 | scholarship | middle republic | academic | |
| hoyos (ed.), d. | A Companion to the Punic Wars | 2011 | scholarship | middle republic | academic | |
| hoyos, d. | Hannibal's Dynasty | 2003 | scholarship | middle republic | academic | |
| lazenby, j. | The First Punic War: A Military History | 1996 | scholarship | middle republic | academic | |
| f. lazenby, j. | The First Punic War: A Military History | 1996 | scholarship | middle republic | academic | |
| v. harris, w. | Guerra e imperialismo en la Roma republicana, 327-70 a.C. | 1979 | scholarship | middle republic | academic | |
| h. richardson, j. | P. Cornelius Scipio and the Capture of New Carthage: The Tide, the Wind and Other Fantasies | scholarship | middle republic | academic | ||
| i. flower, h. | The Tradition of the Spolia Opima: M. Claudius Marcellus and Augustus | scholarship | middle republic | academic | ||
| warde fowler, w. | The Roman Festivals of the Period of the Republic | scholarship | middle republic | academic | ||
| hellmut deutschmann, e. | Roman Policies towards Antiochus III and the Greeks from Winter 197/196 B.C. to Autumn 196 B.C. | 2012 | scholarship | middle republic | academic | |
| cuena boy, f. | Leges in aeternum latae y leges mortales: El debate sobre la derogación de la lex Oppia según Tito Livio 34.1-8 | 2017 | scholarship | middle republic | academic | |
| ames, c. | Religião e controle social no mundo romano: a proibição das Bacanais em 186 a.C. | 2010 | scholarship | middle republic | academic | |
| late republic | ||||||
| mouritsen, h. | Italian Unification: A Study in Ancient and Modern Historiography | 1998 | scholarship | late republic | academic | |
| cloud, j. | The Constitution and Public Criminal Law | 1994 | scholarship | late republic | academic | |
| lorsch wildfang, r. | Rome's Vestal Virgins: A Study of Rome's Vestal Priestesses in the Late Republic and Early Empire | 2006 | scholarship | late republic | academic | |
| syme, r. | La revolución romana | 1939 | scholarship | late republic | academic | |
| rice holmes, t. | The Roman Republic and the Founder of the Empire | 1923 | scholarship | late republic | academic | |
| principate | ||||||
| a. barrett, a. | Agripina. La mujer que transgredió el modelo imperial | 1996 | scholarship | principate | academic | |
| levick, b. | Claudius | 1990 | scholarship | principate | academic | |
| d. shaw, b. | The Myth of the Neronian Persecution | 2015 | scholarship | principate | academic | |
| w. frier, b. | Landlords and Tenants in Imperial Rome | 1980 | scholarship | principate | academic | |
| champlin, e. | Nero | 2003 | scholarship | principate | academic | |
| galinsky, k. | Augustan Culture: An Interpretive Introduction | 1996 | scholarship | principate | academic | |
| zanker, p. | Augusto y el poder de las imágenes | 1987 | scholarship | principate | academic | |
| a. evans, c. | Mark's Incipit and the Priene Calendar Inscription | scholarship | principate | academic | ||
| high empire | ||||||
| w. henderson, b. | Five Roman Emperors: Vespasian, Titus, Domitian, Nerva, Trajan, A.D. 69-117 | 1927 | scholarship | high empire | academic | |
| crisis of the iii c. | ||||||
| birley, a. | Septimius Severus: The African Emperor | 1971 | scholarship | crisis of the iii c. | academic | |
| r. birley, a. | Septimius Severus: The African Emperor | 1971 | scholarship | crisis of the iii c. | academic | |
| icks, m. | The Crimes of Elagabalus: The Life and Legacy of Rome's Decadent Boy Emperor | 2011 | scholarship | crisis of the iii c. | academic | |
| late empire | ||||||
| andy merrills y richard miles | The Vandals | 2010 | scholarship | late empire | academic | |
| bowersock, g. | Julian the Apostate | 1978 | scholarship | late empire | academic | |
| dagron, g. | Naissance d'une capitale: Constantinople et ses institutions de 330 à 451 | 1974 | scholarship | late empire | academic | |
| brown, p. | El mundo de la Antigüedad tardía | scholarship | late empire | middling | ||
| heather, p. | La caída del Imperio romano | 2005 | scholarship | late empire | middling | |
| macmullen, r. | Voting About God in Early Church Councils | 2006 | scholarship | late empire | academic | |
| d. barnes, t. | Constantine and Eusebius | 1981 | scholarship | late empire | academic | |
| judaism and rome (proyecto erc) | Comentario a Amiano Marcelino, Res gestae XX.5.10 | scholarship | late empire | academic | ||
| willem drijvers, j. | Panegyricus Latinus 12(9): Constantine's Religious Ideology | scholarship | late empire | academic | ||
| croke, b. | A.D. 476: The Manufacture of a Turning Point | scholarship | late empire | academic | ||
| ralph w. mathisen y geoffrey s. nathan | De Imperatoribus Romanis: Romulus Augustulus | scholarship | late empire | academic | ||
| — | ||||||
| erskine, a. | Troy between Greece and Rome | 2001 | scholarship | academic | ||
| lintott, a. | The Constitution of the Roman Republic | 1999 | scholarship | academic | ||
| feeney, d. | Caesar's Calendar: Ancient Time and the Beginnings of History | 2007 | scholarship | academic | ||
| wissowa, g. | Religion und Kultus der Römer | 1902 | scholarship | academic | ||
| scullard, h. | Festivals and Ceremonies of the Roman Republic | 1981 | scholarship | academic | ||
| a. crook, j. | Law and Life of Rome, 90 B.C.–A.D. 212 | 1967 | scholarship | academic | ||
| lendon, j. | Soldiers and Ghosts: A History of Battle in Classical Antiquity | 2005 | scholarship | middling | ||
| scheid, j. | La religion des Romains | scholarship | middling | |||
| scheid, j. | Les dieux, l'État et l'individu: réflexions sur la religion civique à Rome | scholarship | academic | |||
| rüpke, j. | Kalender und Öffentlichkeit: Die Geschichte der Repräsentation und religiösen Qualifikation von Zeit in Rom | scholarship | academic | |||
| rüpke, j. | Religion in Republican Rome: Rationalization and Ritual Change | scholarship | academic | |||
| p. hallett, j. | Perusinae Glandes and the Changing Image of Augustus | 1977 | scholarship | |||
| mary beard, john north y simon price | Religions of Rome | 1998 | scholarship | academic | ||
| crawford, m. | La República romana | 1978 | scholarship | middling | ||
| purcell, n. | Lexicon Topographicum Urbis Romae — Forum Romanum | scholarship | academic | |||
| purcell, n. | Wine and Wealth in Ancient Italy | 1985 | scholarship | academic | ||
| heather, p. | La restauración de Roma | 2013 | scholarship | middling | ||
| laurence, r. | The Roads of Roman Italy | 1999 | scholarship | academic | ||
| p. saller, r. | Roman Dowry and the Devolution of Property in the Principate | 1984 | scholarship | |||
| meiggs, r. | Roman Ostia | 1960 | scholarship | academic | ||
| runciman, s. | La caída de Constantinopla, 1453 | 1965 | scholarship | middling | ||
| treggiari, s. | Roman Marriage | 1991 | scholarship | |||
| warde fowler, w. | Mundus patet. 24th August, 5th October, 8th November | scholarship | academic | |||
| samuel ball platner y thomas ashby | A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome | scholarship | academic | |||
| de vaan, m. | Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages | scholarship | academic | |||
| alfred ernout y antoine meillet | Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine | scholarship | academic | |||
| auctor | titulus | annus | genus | periodus | exigencia | ficha |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| middle republic | ||||||
| goldsworthy, a. | Las guerras púnicas | 2000 | popular history | middle republic | entry | |
| miles, r. | Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization | popular history | middle republic | middling | ||
| late republic | ||||||
| everitt, a. | Cicerón | 2001 | popular history | late republic | entry | |
| strauss, b. | La muerte de César | 2015 | popular history | late republic | entry | |
| holland, t. | Rubicón | 2003 | popular history | late republic | entry | |
| principate | ||||||
| eslava galán, j. | La Roma de los Césares | 1988 | popular history | principate | entry | |
| high empire | ||||||
| carcopino, j. | La vida cotidiana en Roma en el apogeo del Imperio | 1939 | popular history | high empire | middling | |
| late empire | ||||||
| goldsworthy, a. | La caída del Imperio romano: el ocaso de Occidente | 2009 | popular history | late empire | middling | |
| barbero, a. | El día de los bárbaros | 2005 | popular history | late empire | entry | |
| williams, s. | Diocletian and the Roman Recovery | 1985 | popular history | late empire | middling | |
| — | ||||||
| goldsworthy, a. | El ejército romano | 2003 | popular history | entry | ||
| bonnie blackburn y leofranc holford-strevens | The Oxford Companion to the Year | 1999 | popular history | middling | ||
| herrin, j. | Bizancio: el imperio que hizo posible la Europa moderna | 2007 | popular history | entry | ||
| beard, m. | SPQR: Una historia de la antigua Roma | 2015 | popular history | entry | ||
| auctor | titulus | annus | genus | periodus | exigencia | ficha |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| late republic | ||||||
| rené goscinny y albert uderzo | Astérix el Galo | 1961 | comics | late republic | entry | |
| auctor | titulus | annus | genus | periodus | exigencia | ficha |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| monarchy | ||||||
| de halicarnaso, d. | Antigüedades romanas | ancient source | monarchy | academic | ||
| plutarco | Vida de Numa | ancient source | monarchy | entry | ||
| plutarco | Vida de Rómulo | ancient source | monarchy | entry | ||
| plutarco | Vida de Rómulo y Vida de Numa | ancient source | monarchy | entry | ||
| virgilio | La Eneida | ancient source | monarchy | entry | ||
| early republic | ||||||
| de cardia, h. | Historia | ancient source | early republic | academic | ||
| plutarco | Vida de Camilo | ancient source | early republic | entry | ||
| plutarco | Vida de Coriolano | ancient source | early republic | middling | ||
| plutarco | Vida de Pirro | ancient source | early republic | entry | ||
| plutarco | Vida de Publícola | ancient source | early republic | middling | ||
| middle republic | ||||||
| polibio | Historias | ancient source | middle republic | middling | ||
| romano, s. | Senatus consultum de Bacchanalibus | ancient source | middle republic | academic | ||
| late republic | ||||||
| apiano | Guerras civiles | ancient source | late republic | middling | ||
| cicerón | Cartas a Ático | ancient source | late republic | academic | ||
| cicerón | Sobre la adivinación | -44 | ancient source | late republic | middling | |
| cicerón | Sobre la naturaleza de los dioses | -45 | ancient source | late republic | middling | |
| cicerón | Sobre los deberes | -44 | ancient source | late republic | middling | |
| de damasco, n. | Vida de Augusto | ancient source | late republic | academic | ||
| plutarco | Vida de Antonio | ancient source | late republic | entry | ||
| plutarco | Vida de César | ancient source | late republic | middling | ||
| plutarco | Vida de Cicerón | ancient source | late republic | middling | ||
| suetonio | Vida del divino Julio | ancient source | late republic | middling | ||
| cicerón | Sobre la ley agraria | ancient source | late republic | middling | ||
| cicerón | Filípicas | ancient source | late republic | middling | ||
| anónimo | Fasti Antiates maiores | ancient source | late republic | academic | ||
| cicerón | Sobre las leyes | ancient source | late republic | middling | ||
| principate | ||||||
| augusto | Res gestae divi Augusti | ancient source | principate | middling | ||
| estacio | Silvas | ancient source | principate | middling | ||
| marcial | Epigramas | ancient source | principate | middling | ||
| persio | Sátiras | ancient source | principate | academic | ||
| plutarco | Vida de Galba | ancient source | principate | middling | ||
| suetonio | Vida de Nerón | ancient source | principate | entry | ||
| suetonio | Vida del divino Augusto | ancient source | principate | middling | ||
| suetonio | Vida del divino Claudio | ancient source | principate | middling | ||
| suetonio | Vidas de los doce césares | ancient source | principate | entry | ||
| tácito | Anales | ancient source | principate | middling | ||
| tácito | Historias | ancient source | principate | middling | ||
| patérculo, v. | Historia romana | ancient source | principate | middling | ||
| anónimo | Fasti Amiternini | ancient source | principate | academic | ||
| anónimo | Fasti fratrum Arvalium | ancient source | principate | academic | ||
| anónimo | Feriale Cumanum | ancient source | principate | academic | ||
| propercio | Elegías | ancient source | principate | middling | ||
| paulo fabio máximo y el koinón de asia | Edicto y decreto sobre el calendario de Asia | ancient source | principate | academic | ||
| high empire | ||||||
| gayo | Instituciones | ancient source | high empire | academic | ||
| juvenal | Sátiras | ancient source | high empire | middling | ||
| frontino | De aquaeductu urbis Romae | ancient source | high empire | middling | ||
| séneca | Epístolas morales a Lucilio | ancient source | high empire | middling | ||
| tácito | Agrícola | ancient source | high empire | middling | ||
| el joven, p. | Panegírico de Trajano | ancient source | high empire | academic | ||
| anónimo | Fasti Ostienses | ancient source | high empire | academic | ||
| crisis of the iii c. | ||||||
| anónimo | Historia Augusta | ancient source | crisis of the iii c. | academic | ||
| herodiano | Historia del Imperio romano después de Marco Aurelio | ancient source | crisis of the iii c. | middling | ||
| censorino | De die natali | ancient source | crisis of the iii c. | academic | ||
| late empire | ||||||
| marcelino, a. | Historia | ancient source | late empire | middling | ||
| anónimo | Consularia Constantinopolitana | ancient source | late empire | academic | ||
| de cesarea, e. | Vida de Constantino | ancient source | late empire | middling | ||
| jordanes | Origen y gestas de los godos | ancient source | late empire | middling | ||
| lactancio | Sobre la muerte de los perseguidores | ancient source | late empire | middling | ||
| libanio | Discursos | ancient source | late empire | academic | ||
| de calama, p. | Vida de San Agustín | ancient source | late empire | middling | ||
| de cesarea, p. | Historia de las guerras | ancient source | late empire | academic | ||
| de aquitania, p. | Epitoma chronicon | ancient source | late empire | academic | ||
| agustín, s. | La ciudad de Dios | ancient source | late empire | academic | ||
| jerónimo, s. | Epístolas | ancient source | late empire | academic | ||
| escolástico, s. | Historia eclesiástica | ancient source | late empire | middling | ||
| de vita, v. | Historia persecutionis Africanae provinciae | ancient source | late empire | academic | ||
| zósimo | Nueva historia | ancient source | late empire | middling | ||
| carisio | Ars grammatica | ancient source | late empire | academic | ||
| dionisio filócalo, f. | Cronografía del 354 | ancient source | late empire | academic | ||
| bobiense, e. | Comentario a Cicerón, Pro Milone | ancient source | late empire | academic | ||
| anónimo | Panegíricos latinos | ancient source | late empire | academic | ||
| senado y pueblo de roma | Inscripción del arco de Constantino | ancient source | late empire | academic | ||
| anónimo | Fasti Vindobonenses priores | ancient source | late empire | academic | ||
| anónimo | Auctarium Havniense de Próspero | ancient source | late empire | academic | ||
| anónimo | Paschale Campanum | ancient source | late empire | academic | ||
| anónimo | Anonymus Valesianus | ancient source | late empire | academic | ||
| de panion, p. | Historia | ancient source | late empire | academic | ||
| casiodoro | Chronica | ancient source | late empire | academic | ||
| comes, m. | Chronicon | ancient source | late empire | academic | ||
| anónimo | Auctarium epitomae Vaticanae | ancient source | late empire | academic | ||
| — | ||||||
| (epítome de tito livio), a. | Periochae | ancient source | academic | |||
| apiano | Historia romana | ancient source | middling | |||
| gelio, a. | Noches áticas | ancient source | middling | |||
| dión, c. | Historia romana | ancient source | middling | |||
| catulo | Poemas | ancient source | ||||
| cicerón | En defensa de Celio | ancient source | ||||
| nepote, c. | Sobre los grandes generales de los pueblos extranjeros | ancient source | middling | |||
| sículo, d. | Biblioteca histórica | ancient source | middling | |||
| ducas | Historia turco-bizantina | ancient source | academic | |||
| estrabón | Geografía | ancient source | middling | |||
| de cesarea, e. | Historia eclesiástica | ancient source | middling | |||
| josefo, f. | Antigüedades judías | ancient source | middling | |||
| floro | Epítome de la historia romana | ancient source | middling | |||
| frontino | Estratagemas | ancient source | middling | |||
| zonaras, j. | Epitome historiarum | ancient source | academic | |||
| césar, j. | Guerra civil | ancient source | ||||
| (compilación), j. | Digesto | ancient source | ||||
| calcocondilas, l. | Demostraciones históricas | ancient source | academic | |||
| macrobio | Saturnales | ancient source | academic | |||
| ovidio | Fastos | ancient source | middling | |||
| petronio | Satiricón | ancient source | ||||
| el viejo, p. | Historia natural | ancient source | middling | |||
| plutarco | Cuestiones romanas | ancient source | middling | |||
| plutarco | Vida de Craso | ancient source | ||||
| plutarco | Vida de Mario | ancient source | ||||
| plutarco | Vida de Sila | ancient source | ||||
| plutarco | Vidas paralelas | ancient source | middling | |||
| aurelio víctor, p. | Epitome de Caesaribus | ancient source | academic | |||
| salustio | La conjuración de Catilina | ancient source | ||||
| pompeyo festo, s. | De verborum significatu | ancient source | academic | |||
| livio, t. | Historia de Roma desde su fundación | ancient source | middling | |||
| (atribuidas), u. | Reglas | ancient source | ||||
| máximo, v. | Hechos y dichos memorables | ancient source | middling | |||
| varrón | De lingua latina | ancient source | academic | |||
| varrón | De re rustica | ancient source | academic | |||
| vitruvio | Sobre la arquitectura | ancient source | ||||
| vegecio | Epítome de la ciencia militar | ancient source | ||||
| salustio | Guerra de Yugurta | ancient source | ||||
| solino | Collectanea rerum memorabilium | ancient source | ||||