Reddit mentions of The Twelve Caesars

Oh, man, there's a lot of great literature about ancient Rome. It really depends on what part of that era you want to focus on, but my favorite non-fiction are:

1. Rubicon by Tom Holland. Really beautiful telling of the death of the republic. Great.
   
   
2. Augustus by John Williams.
   
   
3. Plutarch's Lives. Now before you poo-poo this one because it's from an ancient source, let me just say that it's an incredible bit of writing on several famous Romans. Very readable and highly entertaining.
   
   
4. The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius. Although it's biased due to political and family connections, still highly readable and gives good insight into the culture of the time from someone who was (not quite) there.
   
   I hope this helps!

12 Caesers

Here you go. Have fun.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Twelve-Caesars-Penguin-Classics/dp/0140455167

One of my favourite books on the classical era. The show Rome was good but like ASOIAF the literature is better.

Deuteronomy 2:2-6 doesn't show that "the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir"= the Edomites.

> why do you think Finney couldn't see the trouble he was causing for the modern world?

I honestly don't blame Finney because the result of his changes wasn't easy to see. The only reason that I can see it is the benefit of hindsight.

> 2) "But the humble Christian who lacks doubt doesn't hesitate to kill heretics because he is sure that he is right and they are wrong."

> That doesn't really seem like humility. That seems more like arrogance.

How do you define humility? The average medieval Christian seems humble to me, and is as I described.

> Also, speaking of society, what are your thoughts on Proverbs 6:16-19, Proverbs 8:13, Ephesians 6:12, 1 Samuel 16:7, Romans 12:9, and Galatians 6:1?

> Based on these, I think we should view things like God sees them. Hate the evil we see in the world, but not the people. I might be wrong on this view though.

I don't see anything in the passages you references supporting your conclusion. I see no distinction between a bad person and the bad that he does. Of course if he can be changed to a good person, then there is no more reason to hate him. But as long as he is bad, he should be hated.

In Hebrew there is no distinction between "evil" and "bad". In Hebrew, both are "ra". A bad person is "rasha". Both badness and bad people are condemned.

This post of mine seems relevant:

http://www.mikraite.org/Translating-Psalm-94-tp1538.html

Livy is excellent, especially his first book. Of course Livy himself was a historian. I am not that well read on Rome, but here are some other books I liked:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0140444203/

https://www.amazon.com/Conquest-Gaul-Classics-Julius-Caesar-ebook/dp/B002RI9MTS/

https://www.amazon.com/Twelve-Caesars-Suetonius/dp/0140455167/

https://www.amazon.com/Golden-Ass-Transformations-Lucius-Classics/dp/0374531811/

The last is fiction but gives a good sense of that time (and is fun to read).

I haven't read Cato the Elder or Younger, but all primary sources are worth looking into.

> What questions(major or minor) have you had as a kid or now that you will probably never know the answer to?

Not much really comes to mind. When I have a serious question and I do enough research, I usually find an answer that satisfies me (even though I can never be fully sure that it is correct). The usual unanswerable questions don't really interest me.

I suppose one question I have is how Judaism went so horribly wrong. This happened during a time period for which we don't have enough of a written record to provide the answer.

http://www.amazon.com/History-Modern-Middle-East/dp/0813343747/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1321746283&sr=1-1

and

http://www.amazon.com/Twelve-Caesars-Penguin-Classics/dp/0140455167/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1321746305&sr=1-1

My fiance is a history major, and he LOVED these.

Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars still entertaining ans scandalous after almost 2000 years.