http://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/the_history_of_rome/page/5/
FYI
Gibbons is a collection of books. I recommend for college students serious about becoming woman scholars. For high schoolers seeking general education I would start with Livy and read forward in chronological order from several sources you could ID with internet sources.
You can mix contemporary historians with people like Michael Grant.
Good videos like HBO’s Rome and I Claudius (PBS) but not suitable for those under 21 in my opinion.
Good luck.
Roman scholars
This is not to sound snide, but if students who attend public or private schools are ready in college, my kids are ready in the ninth or tenth grade.
None of my children will ever step inside of a public school for anything other than a case study in how far behind and how little education is offered and or achieved in any public or private school.
Every parent should volunteer in a public school for a day or two to see what I am talking about.
Students don’t read to teachers, teachers read to students.
Unless it is in the teachers manual, it is not going to be taught.
I am not trying to lecture or insult parents of public schooled kids, nor am I trying to insult the kids, but, the bottom line is, the public schools are not education they are indoctrinating and preparing the kids to be good little worker bees in an oligarchic society.