Historical Biographies BCE-500 AD

Alexander the Great: A Very Short Introduction

By Hugh Bowden (Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at King's College London)

Who's Who in Roman Britain and Anglo-Saxon England

By Richard Fletcher

The Unknown Tutankhamun

By Marianne Eaton-Krauss (independent scholar)

Piltdown Man

By Miles Russell

Genghis Khan: His Life and Legacy

By Paul Ratchnevsky, Thoams Nivison Haining

The St Patrick's Treasury: Celebrating the Myths, Legends and Traditions of Ireland's Patron Saint

By John Killen

Lives, Volume I: Theseus and Romulus. Lycurgus and Numa. Solon and Publicola (Loeb Classical Library 46)

By Plutarch, Bernadotte Perrin

Awfully Ancient: Gory Gladiators, Savage Centurions and Caesar's Sticky End: A menacing history of the unruly Romans!

By Tom Morgan-Jones, Kay Barnham

Jesus: pocket GIANTS

By Ed Kessler

Cicero: A Turbulent Life

By Anthony Everitt

Soldiers: Great Stories of War and Peace

By Max Hastings

Emperors of Rome

By David Potter

The Conquest of Gaul (Classics)

By Caesar, Julius, Gardner, Jane, Handford, S.

In the Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny

By Daisy Dunn

A Thousand Pieces of Gold: A Memoir of China's Past Through its Proverbs

By Adeline Yen Mah

Alexander the Great: The Hunt for a New Past

By Paul Cartledge

Scipio Africanus: A Greater Than Napoleon

By B. H. Liddell Hart

The Roman Revolution (Oxford Paperbacks)

By Syme, Ronald

Chronicle of the Queens of Egypt: From Early Dynastic Times to the Death of Cleopatra (Chronicles)

By Joyce Tyldesley

Chronicle of the Roman Republic: The Rulers of Ancient Rome from Romulus to Augustus (Chronicles)

By Philip Matyszak

Caesar: A Biography

By Meier, Christian

Diocletian and the Roman Recovery

By Stephen Williams

Who's Who in the Roman World (Who's Who Series) (The Routledge Who's Who Series)

By Hazel, John

Marcus Aurelius: A Biography (Roman Imperial Biographies)

By Anthony R Birley

Aspects of Roman History AD 14–117

By Alston, Richard

Spartcus and the Slave Wars: A Brief History with Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)

By Shaw, Brent D.

The Trial of Socrates

By Stone, I. F.

The Apocryphal Jesus: Legends of the Early Church

By Elliott, J. K.

Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration

By Fernández-Armesto, Felipe

Attila The Hun: A Barbarian King and the Fall of Rome

By Man, John