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Leaving C-SPAN2's BookTV running in the background, as he reads "O," Monk catches a presentation by an author, Adrian Goldsworthy, who has written a biography on Julius Caesar. He does some checking on Amazon, and in spite of the mistake of having gotten those two volumes from H. H. Scullard on ancient Rome, Monk comes upon a spate of books from the period that he is tempted to try.
Monk thinks the best bet to start out with is Robin Fox Lane's "The Classical World: An Epic History from Homer to Hadrian." He remembers enjoying Lane's work on Alexander the Great. And an emphasis on Homer sounds like a winning approach to him.
But Monk is still wincing from those Scullard texts, which cost him around seventy or eighty dollars, which is pretty expensive for a paper weight and a luxury that he can ill-afford. He feels more than a little wariness, still healing from that burn.
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Leaving C-SPAN2's BookTV running in the background, as he reads "O," Monk catches a presentation by an author, Adrian Goldsworthy, who has written a biography on Julius Caesar. He does some checking on Amazon, and in spite of the mistake of having gotten those two volumes from H. H. Scullard on ancient Rome, Monk comes upon a spate of books from the period that he is tempted to try.
Monk thinks the best bet to start out with is Robin Fox Lane's "The Classical World: An Epic History from Homer to Hadrian." He remembers enjoying Lane's work on Alexander the Great. And an emphasis on Homer sounds like a winning approach to him.
But Monk is still wincing from those Scullard texts, which cost him around seventy or eighty dollars, which is pretty expensive for a paper weight and a luxury that he can ill-afford. He feels more than a little wariness, still healing from that burn.
