Thanks for your responses. I'm not afraid of what you might think of my uneducated self, I just didn't want to steer your responses in any one direction, that's why I left the slate clean to see what would come out of my request. After looking at the "Books" link on this website,
http://www.unrv.com/roman-books/index.php
would you say any of these books meet the criteria I set forth above? Thanks again.
Thank you Asclepiades, for the web link. I will be reading from that also, but I still need to have a good old fashioned book. The Atlas looks interesting, and I am not averse to reading an atlas. I've read a couple of great atlases in the past, so I'm not prejudiced against them, but I'm not ready to make the purchase yet after receiving only one suggestion. Anyone else?
Edit: I just found a more appropriate forum for this request. (Historia Romanorum>Colosseum>Libri). My apologies for not placing this thread there first. I did not know that subforum existed when I made my initial post. If a moderator thinks that this thread needs to be moved, please do. Thanks.