Been reading about Ceaser and Augustus on Wikipedia and am so intrigued, but know those article are only scratching the surface.
What are 5 books I can read to get a pretty good sense of the rise to the fall of the Roman Empire. First hand accounts would be awesome.
Thanks
This subreddit is pretty amazing when it comes to literature, they have a book list for almost everything. Here are the books (with summaries) that deal with Ancient Rome.
Suetonius' Twelve Caesars, Livy's History of Rome, Tacitus' Annals.