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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Darkness" data-source="post: 311154" data-attributes="member: 13">Just read the entire thread. Great stuff, folks! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" />I've always loved Roman history...Heh. I've even "forced" myself to read Theodor Mommsen's quite dry (but still awesome - it didn't <a href="http://www.nobel.se/literature/laureates/1902/" target="_blank">get that nobel prize in literature</a> fer nuthin' <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />) eight volumes of "A history of Rome."The German version of it, that is; I always try to read everything in the original language - provided that the language of the original work is either English or German. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Or Latin, even though that's not as easy for me...In fact, my decision to learn Latin was based mostly on my interest in Roman history (besides, the alternative would have been French - and what do I need French for in my everyday life, anyway? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":o" title="Eek!    :o"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":o" />).I've of course also read Caesar's de bello Gallico (both in German and Latin).But apart from these books, I haven't yet read too many great books about Rome. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />Of course, GURPS Imperial Rome is a great book, too (<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />), and reading all volumes of Asterix - including one in Latin - was also very cool, but still... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />So I think that reading Caesar's Legion would be quite thrilling for me. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I'll try to get it; won't be exactly easy here in Austria (and without a credit card or any form of online banking, online ordering is right out, I guess), but I'll set my most trusted book store clerks on it... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>

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