Okay, I'm going to try out what I understand that issybird said that is okay to do on this thread, in a post that she made just an hour or two ago . . . .
There is this outfit called Palantine Press, which seems that it reprints old historical works, after "cleaning them up" to some degree, all of which books perhaps dea especially in some way or another with ancient Rome.
I had a discussion recently with a MobileReader about the relative merits of reprints of books by companies and texts prepared for non-profit organizations that offer free ebooks, especially Gutenberg.org. I will just say here that I don't know one way or another if there are superior copies of these ebooks freely available on the Internet somewhere else. All that I can say is that the following ones are available; you'll need to do the research yourself, if you're so inclined, to determine whether or not any particular one of these books is the better or best copy "out there," if that should be important to you.
At the present time, Palatine Press has 14
free Kindle books (
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_pg_1...qid=1489867401). Again, these all relate in some way to ancient Rome.
I'm going to go ahead and list them:
Mommsen, Theodor -
The History of Rome Book 1: The Period Anterior to the Abolition of the Monarchy.
Ferrero, Guglielmo -
The Women of the Caesars.
Tenney, Frank -
Roman Imperialism.
Dodge, Theodore -
Great Captains: Hannibal.
(Flavius) Josephus -
Autobiography of Josephus.
Suetonius -
Lives of the Grammarians.
Orr, Lyndon -
Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion, All Volumes.
Sismondi, J.C.L. de -
History and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volume 1.
Dillaway, Charles -
Roman Antiquities and Ancient Mythology.
Plutarch -
Parallel Lives: Comparison of Sertorius with Eumenes.
Plutarch -
Parallel Lives: Comparison of Aristides and Cato.
Plutarch -
Parallel Lives: Comparison of Dion and Brutus.
Plutarch -
Parallel Lives: Comparison of Lysander with Sylla.
Bryan, William Jennings -
The World's Famous Orations: Volume II, Rome (218 B.C. - 84 A.D.).
I have a strong interest in ancient Roman history, and plan to download all of the above ebooks, myself.
I suspect that the free selection changes from time to time. I'm going to set a bookmark and try to monitor the above webpage for different books that they might offer free in the future.