[skepsel]

Lot's of different historians over the years, some I see I've misremembered, LOL, ie., Petronius for Procopius for example. Sometimes contemporary authors (more or less) that mine the classics for story material like L. Spague DeCamp (sp?) or Robert Graves, the authors of "Lest Darkness Fall" and the Claudius books, respectively. Ribald gossip has a long and honorable tradition! And then there's plain erotica, try the Decameron by Boccaccio or an unexpurgated version of the Thousand and One Nights translated by Burton.

[Verginius Rufus]

Robert Graves' autobiographical Goodbye to all that is worth reading--very interesting account of his experiences in the First World War. There is a little about his later life on one of the Balearic Islands in Paul Theroux' The Pillars of Hercules.

[Riverman94610]

Sound like good reads.I'll add them to my long list of books to read.Thank you.