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Ancient Rome: Middle School

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FICTION
CLASSIC LITERATURE
$   ​​In Search of a Homeland  by Penelope Lively
A masterful storyteller brings Virgil's The Aeneid to life as Aeneas leads a people from fallen Greece to a new homeland, Rome.
♥   $   ​The Aeneid for Boys and Girls  by Alfred J. Church (originally 1908)
An excellent retelling of Virgil's Aenied that has stood the test of time.
CULTURAL
♦   Buildings of Byzantium by Helen and Richard Leacroft
Ancient Architecture Series
♦   $   ​City by David Macalaulay
The details of building a Roman city.
HISTORICAL
FC  W4-245   Story of the Romans
FC  W11-96   Rise of Rome
FC  W11-108   Rome and the Celts
FC  W11-115   Rome Mistress of Italy
FC  W11-136   Rome and the East
FC  W11-142   Last Days of the Roman Republic
FC  W11-167   Early Days of Roman Empire
FC  W11-180   The Barbarians and the Empire
FC  W11-193   The New Nation
FC  W12-272   Cornelia's Jewels
♥   ​​Childhood of Rome  by Louise Lamprey (1922)
The legendary era of Roman history.
$   ​​The Fall of Constantinople by Kielty (1453)
♦   $   ​The Byzantines by Thomas Caldecott Chubb
Very good introduction to the Byzantine Empire for young people.
♥   ​The Child’s First History of Rome by Elizabeth Sewell (1849)
Straightforward history of Rome in understandable language.
♥   The City of the Seven Hills by Caroline Harding (1902)
This history is intended for a sixth or seventh grade student with an emphasis on biography of great Romans.  Much of the brutal side of Roman history has been omitted.
♥   ​The Story of Rome   by Mary MacGregor (1912)
Another history from one of my favorite children's writers.
♥   The Story of the Roman People  by Eva March Tappan (1910)
"Many of the difficulties and many of the advantages of the Roman Republic are akin to those of the American Republic. The solution of such problems as have already presented themselves in the United States is even now demanding the highest wisdom of the land. Roman history is a mighty object lesson ...of especial value to the children into whose hands the government will so speedily pass."
HISTORICAL FICTION
♦   Prisoners of Hannibal by Leigh Merrell
This is the story of those embattled years when Rome met the supreme test and managed to endure the fury of Hannibal's invasion.
$   ​​The Bronze Bow  by Elizabeth George Speare
Story of a young man in the days of Jesus under Roman rule.
♥   ​The Standard Bearer: a story of army life in the days of Caesar by A. C. Whitehead (1915)
BIOGRAPHIES
FC   G6-1   Julius Caesar
♥   Famous Men of Rome by Haaren/Poland (1904)
$   ​Galen and the Gateway to Medicine by Jeanne Bendick
Story of a Greek  physician in the Roman Empire.
♦   $   ​Lives of Famous Romans by Olivia Coolidge
♥   Our Young Folks' Plutarch  by Rosalie Kaufman
♥   Plutarch’s Lives for Boys and Girls  by W. H. Weston (1900)
♥   The Story of Caesar   by Michael Clarke (1898)
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