I don’t study Rome but it is clear to me that a kid who is a heavy reader could get hooked on learning about Rome and spend the rest of his life deeply immersed in reading about Rome as the dominate subject of his personal reading and book collecting, it would easily fill a lifetime hobby of nighttime reading, or a PHD career and never get boring or short of more exciting information, or entertainment for pleasure reading.
I agree. Part of the reason is that despite the loss and destruction over centuries, a remarkable amount of written material has survived, and since they tended to build stuff on a large scale, much of that is available for direct study.
The 2nd Punic War is fascinating.