{"id":11416,"count":53,"description":"Which are the best ancient history books?\u00a0For a greater understanding of that long ago time, we've turned to some of the leading experts of the era to recommend the best books ever written on ancient history. Historians, including Peter Brown<\/a>, Robin Lane Fox<\/a> and Mary Beard,<\/a> have all been kind enough to recommend books. Our interview with Oxford's emeritus professor Chris Pelling, on the best books on Ancient Greece<\/a>, is a perennial favourite on the site and his book co-authored with Marina Wyke, Twelve Voices<\/a>,<\/em> highly recommended as a way of getting into the literature of the Latin and Greek worlds.\r\n\r\n(If you want to read either literature or primary sources in the original, we have books recommendations for learning both Latin and Ancient Greek filed under 'Classical Studies<\/a>'.)","link":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/history-books\/ancient-history\/","name":"Ancient History (up to c. 500 AD)","slug":"ancient-history","taxonomy":"category","parent":83,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/11416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/83"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=11416"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book?categories=11416"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books_like_this?categories=11416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}