En İyi Antik Tarih Kitapları

Antik Tarih Kitap Özetleri

Yaratıcılar, Fatihler ve Yurttaşlar

yazan Robin Waterfield • 2018

One culture, a thousand warring city-states: the split that built ancient Greece and doomed it.

3.92

436

Tarih

Klasikler

Siyaset

Felsefe

Antropoloji

Yaratıcılar, Fatihler ve Yurttaşlar Özet

Sürükleyici

Yaratıcılar, Fatihler ve Yurttaşlar

One culture, a thousand warring city-states: the split that built ancient Greece and doomed it.

yazan Robin Waterfield 2018 511 sayfa

3.92

436 puan

Tarih

Klasikler

Siyaset

Felsefe

Antropoloji

Cicero

yazan Anthony Everitt • 2001

A provincial outsider became Rome's most powerful voice. He still could not save the Republic.

3.90

8.000+

Tarih

Biyografi

Klasikler

Siyaset

Felsefe

Cicero

A provincial outsider became Rome's most powerful voice. He still could not save the Republic.

yazan Anthony Everitt 2001 400 sayfa

3.90

8.000+ puan

Tarih

Biyografi

Klasikler

Siyaset

Felsefe

The Fate of Rome

yazan Kyle Harper • 2017

The Roman Empire wasn't just conquered. It was overwhelmed by climate chaos and pandemic disease.

4.19

2.000+

Tarih

Çevre

Bilim

Arkeoloji

İklim Değişikliği

The Fate of Rome

The Roman Empire wasn't just conquered. It was overwhelmed by climate chaos and pandemic disease.

yazan Kyle Harper 2017 417 sayfa

4.19

2.000+ puan

Tarih

Çevre

Bilim

Arkeoloji

İklim Değişikliği

SPQR

yazan Mary Beard • 2015

A thousand-year story of how Rome's genius for inclusion built an empire, then broke its republic.

4.06

83.000+

Tarih

Klasikler

İtalya

Europe

Siyaset

SPQR

A thousand-year story of how Rome's genius for inclusion built an empire, then broke its republic.

yazan Mary Beard 2015 606 sayfa

4.06

83.000+ puan

Tarih

Klasikler

İtalya

Europe

Siyaset

Persian Fire

yazan Tom Holland • 2005

An ancient clash of civilizations: how a tiny Greece stopped a superpower, and invented the West.

4.17

11.000+

Tarih

Klasikler

Savaş

Yunanistan

Orta Doğu

Persian Fire

An ancient clash of civilizations: how a tiny Greece stopped a superpower, and invented the West.

yazan Tom Holland 2005 447 sayfa

4.17

11.000+ puan

Tarih

Klasikler

Savaş

Yunanistan

Orta Doğu

The Golden Road

yazan William Dalrymple • 2024

Before the Silk Road, monsoon winds made India the intellectual heart of the ancient world.

4.12

3.000+

Tarih

Hindistan

Asya

Din

Ekonomi

The Golden Road

Before the Silk Road, monsoon winds made India the intellectual heart of the ancient world.

yazan William Dalrymple 2024 425 sayfa

4.12

3.000+ puan

Tarih

Hindistan

Asya

Din

Ekonomi

Sparta Üzerine

yazan Plutarkhos

Lycurgus designed a state that produced fearless soldiers. Wealth broke it faster than any enemy.

4.12

2.000+

Tarih

Klasikler

Biyografi

Felsefe

Siyaset

Sparta Üzerine

Lycurgus designed a state that produced fearless soldiers. Wealth broke it faster than any enemy.

yazan Plutarkhos 260 sayfa

4.12

2.000+ puan

Tarih

Klasikler

Biyografi

Felsefe

Siyaset

Fingerprints of the Gods

yazan Graham Hancock • 1995

Maps of ice-free Antarctica. Flood myths with astronomical codes. Who left them?

4.15

15.000+

Tarih

Arkeoloji

Mitoloji

Bilim

Antropoloji

Fingerprints of the Gods

Maps of ice-free Antarctica. Flood myths with astronomical codes. Who left them?

yazan Graham Hancock 1995 578 sayfa

4.15

15.000+ puan

Tarih

Arkeoloji

Mitoloji

Bilim

Antropoloji

Atlantis

yazan Ignatius L. Donnelly • 1882

The case that a sunken Atlantic continent was the single source of all ancient civilization.

3.67

500+

Tarih

Mitoloji

Klasikler

Okültizm

Folklore

Atlantis

The case that a sunken Atlantic continent was the single source of all ancient civilization.

yazan Ignatius L. Donnelly 1882 44 sayfa

3.67

500+ puan

Tarih

Mitoloji

Klasikler

Okültizm

Folklore

Why Empires Fall

yazan Peter Heather and John Rapley • 1983

Barbarians didn't kill Rome; economic shifts on its frontiers did. The West is next.

3.60

500+

Tarih

Siyaset

Ekonomi

Sosyoloji

Globalization

Why Empires Fall

Barbarians didn't kill Rome; economic shifts on its frontiers did. The West is next.

yazan Peter Heather and John Rapley 1983 208 sayfa

3.60

500+ puan

Tarih

Siyaset

Ekonomi

Sosyoloji

Globalization

Stoicism

yazan John Sellars • 2006

Stoicism began as a unified system of logic, physics, and ethics, not coping advice.

4.12

457

Felsefe

Tarih

Klasikler

Academics

Eğitim

Stoicism

Stoicism began as a unified system of logic, physics, and ethics, not coping advice.

yazan John Sellars 2006 219 sayfa

4.12

457 puan

Felsefe

Tarih

Klasikler

Academics

Eğitim

The Persian Expedition

yazan Xenophon

An army of 10,000 Greeks, betrayed and stranded in Persia, must fight its way home.

4.11

10.000+

Klasikler

Tarih

Yunanistan

Savaş

Military

The Persian Expedition

An army of 10,000 Greeks, betrayed and stranded in Persia, must fight its way home.

yazan Xenophon 375 sayfa

4.11

10.000+ puan

Klasikler

Tarih

Yunanistan

Savaş

Military

The Chemical Muse

yazan D.C.A. Hillman • 2008

Classical civilization was built on psychoactive plants. The story of how history erased that.

3.89

177

Tarih

Felsefe

Sosyoloji

Mitoloji

Tıp

The Chemical Muse

Classical civilization was built on psychoactive plants. The story of how history erased that.

yazan D.C.A. Hillman 2008 256 sayfa

3.89

177 puan

Tarih

Felsefe

Sosyoloji

Mitoloji

Tıp

Socrates

yazan Paul Johnson • 2011

The original rulebreaker's guide to a meaningful life, from the man who died asking questions.

3.73

1.000+

Felsefe

Biyografi

Ethics

Tarih

Kişisel Gelişim

Socrates

The original rulebreaker's guide to a meaningful life, from the man who died asking questions.

yazan Paul Johnson 2011 224 sayfa

3.73

1.000+ puan

Felsefe

Biyografi

Ethics

Tarih

Kişisel Gelişim

Ancient Philosophy

yazan Julia Annas • 2001

Why ancient ideas about happiness, knowledge, and nature still challenge our modern assumptions.

3.64

500+

Felsefe

Tarih

Klasikler

Eğitim

Başvuru

Ancient Philosophy

Why ancient ideas about happiness, knowledge, and nature still challenge our modern assumptions.

yazan Julia Annas 2001 133 sayfa

3.64

500+ puan

Felsefe

Tarih

Klasikler

Eğitim

Başvuru

Persians

yazan Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones • 2022

Herodotus told one story. Persian tablets and reliefs tell another, and they survive.

4.07

2.000+

Tarih

İran

Orta Doğu

Biyografi

Siyaset

Persians

Herodotus told one story. Persian tablets and reliefs tell another, and they survive.

yazan Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones 2022 448 sayfa

4.07

2.000+ puan

Tarih

İran

Orta Doğu

Biyografi

Siyaset

America Before

yazan Graham Hancock • 2019

Mainstream archaeology says the Americas were settled 13,000 years ago. The evidence says 100,000.

4.13

3.000+

Tarih

Bilim

Antropoloji

Maneviyat

Doğa

America Before

Mainstream archaeology says the Americas were settled 13,000 years ago. The evidence says 100,000.

yazan Graham Hancock 2019 624 sayfa

4.13

3.000+ puan

Tarih

Bilim

Antropoloji

Maneviyat

Doğa

Diyaloglar ve Denemeler

yazan Seneca

A ruler who builds on fear builds a prison, not a kingdom: Seneca's case for clemency.

4.30

1.000+

Felsefe

Klasikler

Denemeler

Tarih

Siyaset

Diyaloglar ve Denemeler

A ruler who builds on fear builds a prison, not a kingdom: Seneca's case for clemency.

yazan Seneca 304 sayfa

4.30

1.000+ puan

Felsefe

Klasikler

Denemeler

Tarih

Siyaset

Sasanian Persia

yazan Touraj Daryaee • 2007

Rome's greatest rival invented an Iranian identity that outlived the empire itself.

3.84

180

Tarih

İran

Orta Doğu

Siyaset

Din

Sasanian Persia

Rome's greatest rival invented an Iranian identity that outlived the empire itself.

yazan Touraj Daryaee 2007 256 sayfa

3.84

180 puan

Tarih

İran

Orta Doğu

Siyaset

Din

Carmide

yazan Plato

What is temperance? The pursuit leads Socrates to ask whether knowledge can study only itself.

3.53

1.000+

Felsefe

Klasikler

Tarih

Siyaset

Greek

Carmide

What is temperance? The pursuit leads Socrates to ask whether knowledge can study only itself.

yazan Plato

3.53

1.000+ puan

Felsefe

Klasikler

Tarih

Siyaset

Greek

The Campaigns of Alexander

yazan Arrian

How Alexander conquered the Persian Empire and was conquered by his own ambition.

4.17

5.000+

Tarih

Klasikler

Biyografi

Savaş

Greek

The Campaigns of Alexander

How Alexander conquered the Persian Empire and was conquered by his own ambition.

yazan Arrian 430 sayfa

4.17

5.000+ puan

Tarih

Klasikler

Biyografi

Savaş

Greek

Forbidden Archeology

yazan Michael A. Cremo • 1993

Modern human fossils appear in Miocene strata. For over a century, science has looked away.

4.05

1.000+

Tarih

Bilim

Arkeoloji

Antropoloji

Evrim

Forbidden Archeology

Modern human fossils appear in Miocene strata. For over a century, science has looked away.

yazan Michael A. Cremo 1993 914 sayfa

4.05

1.000+ puan

Tarih

Bilim

Arkeoloji

Antropoloji

Evrim

Final Pagan Generation

yazan Edward J. Watts • 2015

Why Rome's last pagans didn't fight Christianity but managed its rise from inside the empire.

3.99

259

Tarih

Din

Hristiyanlık

Paganizm

Sosyoloji

Final Pagan Generation

Why Rome's last pagans didn't fight Christianity but managed its rise from inside the empire.

yazan Edward J. Watts 2015 346 sayfa

3.99

259 puan

Tarih

Din

Hristiyanlık

Paganizm

Sosyoloji

Alexander the Great

yazan Philip Freeman • 2010

The father built the war machine. The son drove it to India in twelve merciless years.

4.33

6.000+

Tarih

Biyografi

Savaş

Military

Tarihî

Alexander the Great

The father built the war machine. The son drove it to India in twelve merciless years.

yazan Philip Freeman 2010 391 sayfa

4.33

6.000+ puan

Tarih

Biyografi

Savaş

Military

Tarihî

Ancient Greece

yazan Thomas R. Martin • 1992

A journey from the Minoans to Alexander, explaining how Greece shaped the Western world.

3.98

2.000+

Tarih

Klasikler

Greek

Felsefe

Din

Ancient Greece

A journey from the Minoans to Alexander, explaining how Greece shaped the Western world.

yazan Thomas R. Martin 1992 254 sayfa

3.98

2.000+ puan

Tarih

Klasikler

Greek

Felsefe

Din

Cleopatra

yazan Alberto Angela • 2018

The seductress myth hides a multilingual strategist who used intellect and intimacy to defy Rome.

3.85

1.000+

Tarih

Biyografi

Mısır

Women

Siyaset

Cleopatra

The seductress myth hides a multilingual strategist who used intellect and intimacy to defy Rome.

yazan Alberto Angela 2018 426 sayfa

3.85

1.000+ puan

Tarih

Biyografi

Mısır

Women

Siyaset

Masters of Command

yazan Barry S. Strauss • 2012

Three ancient generals, ten common instincts, and the single rhythm of war that still defines power.

4.02

500+

Tarih

Liderlik

Savaş

Biyografi

Siyaset

Masters of Command

Three ancient generals, ten common instincts, and the single rhythm of war that still defines power.

yazan Barry S. Strauss 2012 320 sayfa

4.02

500+ puan

Tarih

Liderlik

Savaş

Biyografi

Siyaset

A History of India, Vol. 1

yazan Romila Thapar • 1990

How a 1999 sci-fi film exposed the simulation we were already living in.

3.63

2.000+

Film

Felsefe

Culture

Sosyoloji

Media

A History of India, Vol. 1

How a 1999 sci-fi film exposed the simulation we were already living in.

yazan Romila Thapar 1990 384 sayfa

3.63

2.000+ puan

Film

Felsefe

Culture

Sosyoloji

Media

The Persian Empire

yazan John W.I. Lee • 2012

Greek histories painted Persia as despotism. The empire's own record tells a different story.

4.10

500+

Tarih

Civilization

Savaş

Siyaset

Military

The Persian Empire

Greek histories painted Persia as despotism. The empire's own record tells a different story.

yazan John W.I. Lee 2012

4.10

500+ puan

Tarih

Civilization

Savaş

Siyaset

Military

India

yazan John Keay • 2000

One volume, five thousand years: the subcontinent from its first cities to its midnight partition.

3.93

4.000+

Tarih

Hindistan

Asya

Siyaset

Din

India

One volume, five thousand years: the subcontinent from its first cities to its midnight partition.

yazan John Keay 2000 578 sayfa

3.93

4.000+ puan

Tarih

Hindistan

Asya

Siyaset

Din

The First Ghosts

yazan Irving Finkel • 2021

Ghosts are ancient, but Mesopotamia left the first written rules for living with the restless dead.

4.01

499

Tarih

Mitoloji

Din

Antropoloji

Arkeoloji

The First Ghosts

Ghosts are ancient, but Mesopotamia left the first written rules for living with the restless dead.

yazan Irving Finkel 2021 334 sayfa

4.01

499 puan

Tarih

Mitoloji

Din

Antropoloji

Arkeoloji

How to Win an Election

yazan Quintus Tullius Cicero

Cicero's brother wrote the campaign playbook: flatter, promise, know your enemy's secrets.

3.78

1.000+

Siyaset

Tarih

Klasikler

Felsefe

Kişisel Gelişim

How to Win an Election

Cicero's brother wrote the campaign playbook: flatter, promise, know your enemy's secrets.

yazan Quintus Tullius Cicero 128 sayfa

3.78

1.000+ puan

Siyaset

Tarih

Klasikler

Felsefe

Kişisel Gelişim

The 12th Planet

yazan Zecharia Sitchin • 1976

A 12th planet sent alien gods to Earth, where they engineered humans to mine gold.

3.98

5.000+

Tarih

Mitoloji

Uzaylılar

Paranormal

Din

The 12th Planet

A 12th planet sent alien gods to Earth, where they engineered humans to mine gold.

yazan Zecharia Sitchin 1976 438 sayfa

3.98

5.000+ puan

Tarih

Mitoloji

Uzaylılar

Paranormal

Din

Rome's Last Citizen

yazan Rob Goodman • 2012

Cato chose suicide over Caesar's pardon, turning a provincial port into the Republic's last stand.

4.16

1.000+

Tarih

Biyografi

Siyaset

Felsefe

Klasikler

Rome's Last Citizen

Cato chose suicide over Caesar's pardon, turning a provincial port into the Republic's last stand.

yazan Rob Goodman 2012 384 sayfa

4.16

1.000+ puan

Tarih

Biyografi

Siyaset

Felsefe

Klasikler

Marcus Aurelius

yazan Donald J. Robertson • 2024

How Marcus Aurelius used Stoicism to govern an empire and master his own mind.

4.18

1.000+

Felsefe

Tarih

Biyografi

Psikoloji

Kişisel Gelişim

Marcus Aurelius

How Marcus Aurelius used Stoicism to govern an empire and master his own mind.

yazan Donald J. Robertson 2024 248 sayfa

4.18

1.000+ puan

Felsefe

Tarih

Biyografi

Psikoloji

Kişisel Gelişim

The Celts

yazan Alice Roberts • 2015

Classical writers got the Celts wrong. They were Atlantic traders, not central European barbarians.

3.92

1.000+

Tarih

Arkeoloji

Antropoloji

Kültürel

Tarihî

The Celts

Classical writers got the Celts wrong. They were Atlantic traders, not central European barbarians.

yazan Alice Roberts 2015 288 sayfa

3.92

1.000+ puan

Tarih

Arkeoloji

Antropoloji

Kültürel

Tarihî

The Great Wall

yazan Julia Lovell • 1981

The Great Wall was many walls, built for conquest as much as defense, and it failed.

3.46

344

Tarih

Civilization

Çin

Asya

Siyaset

The Great Wall

The Great Wall was many walls, built for conquest as much as defense, and it failed.

yazan Julia Lovell 1981 432 sayfa

3.46

344 puan

Tarih

Civilization

Çin

Asya

Siyaset

Hidden History

yazan Brian Haughton • 2007

Twelve ancient mysteries where the evidence outlasts every explanation archaeologists have offered.

3.71

233

Tarih

Arkeoloji

Antropoloji

Bilim

Mitoloji

Hidden History

Twelve ancient mysteries where the evidence outlasts every explanation archaeologists have offered.

yazan Brian Haughton 2007 272 sayfa

3.71

233 puan

Tarih

Arkeoloji

Antropoloji

Bilim

Mitoloji

When the Sky Fell

yazan Rand Flem-Ath • 1995

Ancient maps reveal an ice-free Antarctica. The civilization that charted it may still be there.

3.92

278

Tarih

Bilim

Gizem

Mitoloji

Earth

When the Sky Fell

Ancient maps reveal an ice-free Antarctica. The civilization that charted it may still be there.

yazan Rand Flem-Ath 1995 179 sayfa

3.92

278 puan

Tarih

Bilim

Gizem

Mitoloji

Earth

The Ancient Celts

yazan Barry Cunliffe • 2018

Two millennia of reinvention: the Celts as barbarians, noble savages, and nationalist ancestors.

3.92

1.000+

Tarih

Arkeoloji

Antropoloji

Mitoloji

Din

The Ancient Celts

Two millennia of reinvention: the Celts as barbarians, noble savages, and nationalist ancestors.

yazan Barry Cunliffe 2018 360 sayfa

3.92

1.000+ puan

Tarih

Arkeoloji

Antropoloji

Mitoloji

Din

The Assyrian

yazan Nicholas Guild • 1987

Half-Greek in Assyria's court, a prince navigates omens, war, and a brother's deadly envy.

4.26

1.000+

Tarihi Kurgu

Tarihî

Orta Doğu

Savaş

Military

The Assyrian

Half-Greek in Assyria's court, a prince navigates omens, war, and a brother's deadly envy.

yazan Nicholas Guild 1987 552 sayfa

4.26

1.000+ puan

Tarihi Kurgu

Tarihî

Orta Doğu

Savaş

Military

Ancient Philosophy

yazan Anthony Kenny • 2004

The questions the ancient Greeks asked still define philosophy, and still resist easy answers.

3.95

500+

Felsefe

Tarih

Klasikler

Greek

Roma

Ancient Philosophy

The questions the ancient Greeks asked still define philosophy, and still resist easy answers.

yazan Anthony Kenny 2004 341 sayfa

3.95

500+ puan

Felsefe

Tarih

Klasikler

Greek

Roma

The Atlantis Blueprint

yazan Rand Flem-Ath • 2000

Ancient maps of an ice-free Antarctica point to a lost civilization that once surveyed the globe.

3.81

500+

Tarih

Bilim

Maneviyat

Paranormal

Mitoloji

The Atlantis Blueprint

Ancient maps of an ice-free Antarctica point to a lost civilization that once surveyed the globe.

yazan Rand Flem-Ath 2000 415 sayfa

3.81

500+ puan

Tarih

Bilim

Maneviyat

Paranormal

Mitoloji

Tanrıların ve İnsanların Savaşları

yazan Zecharia Sitchin • 1985

The gods of myth were advanced beings who fought real wars for Earth's pyramids and spaceports.

4.09

1.000+

Tarih

Myth

Din

Uzaylılar

Paranormal

Tanrıların ve İnsanların Savaşları

The gods of myth were advanced beings who fought real wars for Earth's pyramids and spaceports.

yazan Zecharia Sitchin 1985 384 sayfa

4.09

1.000+ puan

Tarih

Myth

Din

Uzaylılar

Paranormal

The Annals/The Histories

yazan Tacitus • 2003

Four emperors in one year, a city in flames, and a historian who watched it all.

4.03

375

Tarih

Klasikler

Siyaset

Felsefe

Savaş

The Annals/The Histories

Four emperors in one year, a city in flames, and a historian who watched it all.

yazan Tacitus 2003 640 sayfa

4.03

375 puan

Tarih

Klasikler

Siyaset

Felsefe

Savaş

1177 B.C.

yazan Eric H. Cline • 2014

The Bronze Age had trade routes and diplomacy. A cascade of disasters brought it down.

3.74

13.000+

Tarih

Arkeoloji

Sosyoloji

Ekonomi

Siyaset

1177 B.C.

The Bronze Age had trade routes and diplomacy. A cascade of disasters brought it down.

yazan Eric H. Cline 2014 264 sayfa

3.74

13.000+ puan

Tarih

Arkeoloji

Sosyoloji

Ekonomi

Siyaset

History of the Peloponnesian War

yazan Thucydides

Athens rose, Sparta panicked, and a 27-year catastrophe was the only outcome.

3.95

40.000+

Tarih

Klasikler

Savaş

Siyaset

Yunanistan

History of the Peloponnesian War

Athens rose, Sparta panicked, and a 27-year catastrophe was the only outcome.

yazan Thucydides 648 sayfa

3.95

40.000+ puan

Tarih

Klasikler

Savaş

Siyaset

Yunanistan

The Romans

yazan Edward J. Watts • 2025

Most empires fall. Rome reinvented itself for two millennia by turning enemies into citizens.

4.16

187

Tarih

Klasikler

Europe

Ortaçağ

Siyaset

The Romans

Most empires fall. Rome reinvented itself for two millennia by turning enemies into citizens.

yazan Edward J. Watts 2025 736 sayfa

4.16

187 puan

Tarih

Klasikler

Europe

Ortaçağ

Siyaset

Rubicon

yazan Tom Holland • 2003

Before Caesar, competition was Rome's strength. After him, it became the Republic's executioner.

4.23

28.000+

Tarih

Tarihî

Siyaset

Savaş

Military

Rubicon

Before Caesar, competition was Rome's strength. After him, it became the Republic's executioner.

yazan Tom Holland 2003 408 sayfa

4.23

28.000+ puan

Tarih

Tarihî

Siyaset

Savaş

Military

The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire

yazan Edward Gibbon • 1788

Rome wasn't just conquered; weak rulers and religious civil wars hollowed it out first.

4.25

1.000+

Tarih

Klasikler

Savaş

Siyaset

Din

The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire

Rome wasn't just conquered; weak rulers and religious civil wars hollowed it out first.

yazan Edward Gibbon 1788

4.25

1.000+ puan

Tarih

Klasikler

Savaş

Siyaset

Din

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