The Histories
Herodotus · 550 BCE – 430 BCE
A History of Ancient Egypt
Nicolas Grimal · 3000 BCE – 300 BCE
The Peloponnesian War
Thucydides · 431 BCE – 404 BCE
The Republic
Plato · 380 BCE – 380 BCE
The Gallic War
Julius Caesar · 58 BCE – 50 BCE
The Aeneid
Virgil · 19 BCE – 19 BCE
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius · 161 CE – 180 CE
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
Mary Beard · 509 BCE – 212 CE
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Edward Gibbon · 98 CE – 476 CE
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari · 70000 BCE – 2010 CE
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Jared Diamond · 11000 BCE – 2000 CE
Other periods: Prehistory · Ancient · Medieval · Early Modern · Modern · Contemporary