Recs if you like A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire...

here is your assigned reading 📚an assortment of secondary and primary sources 🧑‍🏫

The majority of history has been, and still is, written by men. Even when men write about women in history, they often get it wrong, distort the truth to fit moral or political narratives, or just plain have no idea what the female experience is so they miss what’s actually important.

Here is a list of some of history written by female authors, who are looking at history through their female gaze - not through the lense of what men have decided is history.

Suggestions welcome!

Books about Rome and the Roman world. A mix of translated primary source texts and contemporary non-fiction works.

Books to begin to understand Ancient Rome, from the beginnings to the end.

irreverent, and yet somehow, informative

Fiction and non fiction about Rome