Ancient Rome – Level 2

Note: We have not read all the books on this list. Most are either stocked by reliable catalogs or are by authors with who we are familiar.

Key text: * Famous Men of Rome (Greenleaf Press)

Alternative Option * The Story of the Romans by Helene Guerber

Optional Further Reading

NON-FICTION

Augustus Caesar’s World by Genevieve Foster

Lives of Famous Romans by Olivia Coolidge

Caesar’s Gallic Wars by Olivia Coolidge

City by David Macaulay

Science in Ancient Rome by Jacqueline L.Harris

MYTHOLOGY

The Orchard Book of Roman Myths

HISTORICAL FICTION

Detectives in Togas by Henry Winterfeld

Mystery of the Roman Ransom by Henry Winterfeld

The Pirates of Pompeii by Caroline Lawrence – mystery set in 79AD (also other books in the same series including The Secrets of Vesuvius, The Assassins of Rome and The Thieves of Ostia,

A Triumph for Flavius by Caroline Dale Snedeker

The Time Travelling Cat and the Roman Eagle by Julia Jarman