I read about 2000 pages after watching Claudius on PBS and reading I Claudius and Claudius The God. i started with Livy up to the second war with Carthage and then read two or three authors concurrent till the year of the 4 emperors (AD 69). I still have some books around on later period but suffered burnout. Watch all the mini-series and movies I can find on Rome.
Have you read Colleen Mccullough’s Masters of Rome series? Terrific historical fiction.