Historathon 2023 - hosted by tahlia__nerds_out

Prehistory to 500 AD
 Q1: January - March 
All books added
The Scythian Empire by Christopher I Beckwith

The Scythian Empire

Christopher I Beckwith

7 hours, 58 minutes • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous informative medium-paced
The Eye of the Beholder: Deformity and Disability in the Graeco-Roman World by Robert Garland

The Eye of the Beholder: Deformity and Disability in the Graeco-Roman World

Robert Garland

222 pages • first pub 1995 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced
Pharaohs of the Sun: The Rise and Fall of Tutankhamun's Dynasty by Guy de la Bédoyère

Pharaohs of the Sun: The Rise and Fall of Tutankhamun's Dynasty

Guy de la Bédoyère

576 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found by Mary Beard

The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found

Mary Beard

360 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
Remnants of Ancient Life: The New Science of Old Fossils by Dale Greenwalt
Remnants of Ancient Life: The New Science of Old Fossils
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Dale Greenwalt

Remnants of Ancient Life: The New Science of Old Fossils

Dale Greenwalt

7 hours, 49 minutes • first pub 2023 (editions) user-added

nonfiction
Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar by Tom Holland

Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar

Tom Holland

482 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction biography history dark informative medium-paced
Persians: The Age of the Great Kings by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

Persians: The Age of the Great Kings

Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

432 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging dark mysterious medium-paced
Boudica: Warrior Woman of Roman Britain by Caitlin C. Gillespie

Boudica: Warrior Woman of Roman Britain

Caitlin C. Gillespie

216 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction biography feminism history challenging informative medium-paced
Greece Against Rome: The Fall of the Hellenistic Kingdoms 250-31 BC by Philip Matyszak

Greece Against Rome: The Fall of the Hellenistic Kingdoms 250-31 BC

Philip Matyszak

208 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium by Barry S. Strauss

The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium

Barry S. Strauss

304 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced