De bello judaico vs Historia Alexandri Magni: Which Should You Read?

De bello judaico Flavius Josephus · 1481 ★★★★☆ 3.7 518 pages · ≈ 9 h 36 m · Demanding

The Jewish War is a work of Jewish history written by Josephus, a first-century Roman-Jewish historian. It has been described by the biblical historian Steve Mason as "perhaps the most influential non-biblical text of…

Historia Alexandri Magni Quintus Curtius Rufus · 1481 ★★★★☆ 3.9 312 pages · ≈ 5 h 47 m · Demanding

The Roman historian's account of the conquests of Alexander the Great is one of the primary sources of our knowledge of the Macedonian conquest and its leader.