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Internet Ancient History Sourcebook

Rome

 

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Contents

General

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Rome: Major Historians: Complete Texts

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Etruscans 900-27 BCE

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Roman Foundations

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The Growth of Republican Institutions

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The Wars with Carthage 264-146 BCE

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Imperial Expansion under the Republic

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Civil Wars and Revolution

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The Principate to 192 CE

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Roman Law

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The Army

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The Empire and Provinces

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Later Empire (after 192 CE)

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Literature
  • WEB Theoi Classical Texts Library [Internet Archive backup here]
    A collection of translations of works of ancient Greek and Roman literature. The theme of the library is classical mythology and so the selection consists primarily of ancient poetry, drama and prose accounts of myth. Also has an impressive gallery of illustrations of these these themes.
  • WEB Tools of the Trade for the Study of Roman Literature, by Lowell Edmunds and Shirley Werner [Was At Rutgers, now Internet Archive]
  • Plautus (d.184 BCE): The Brothers Menaechmus 1996 translation, [Was At Rhodes, now Internet Archive]
  • Plautus (d.184 BCE): Aulularia [At Forum Romanorum] [Internet Archive version here] or in Latin [At the Latin Library]
  • Roman Poetry Selections (Catullus [c.84-c.54 BCE], Horace [65-8 BCE], Martial [40-103/4 CE]) [Was At Then Again, now Internet Archive]
  • Lucretius (99-55 BCE): The Nature of Things [At this Site, formerly ERIS][Full Text]
  • Lucretius (99-55 BCE): The Nature of Things trans. William Ellery Leonard [Project Gutenberg]
  • Catullus (c.84-c.54 BCE): Poems [Was At Saskatchewan, now Internet Archive]
  • Catullus (c.84-c.54 BCE): Complete Poems trana. A.S. Kline, unexpurgated translation [At Poetry in Motion] [Archive version here]
  • Catullus (c.84-c.54 BCE): The Carmina trans. Richard Burton [Project Gutenberg]
  • Catullus (c.84-c.54 BCE): Poems and Fragments trans. Robinson Ellis [Project Gutenberg]
  • Virgil (70-19 BCE)
    • Virgil (70-19 BCE): The Aeneid John Dryden translation (1697) [At MIT][Full Text][Chapter files]
    • Virgil (70-19 BCE): The Aeneid John Dryden translation (1697 [Project Gutenberg]
    • Virgil (70-19 BCE): The Aeneid J. W. Mackail translation (1885) [Project Gutenberg]
    • Virgil (70-19 BCE): The Aeneid E. F. Taylor translation (1907) [Project Gutenberg]
    • Virgil (70-19 BCE): The Aeneid Rolfe Humphries translation (1951) [Project Gutenberg]
      See 2ND Aeneid: Study Guide [Was At Brooklyn College, now Internet Archive]
    • Virgil (70-19 BCE): Eclogues [MIT]
    • Virgil (70-19 BCE): Eclogues [At Theoi] [Internet Archive version here]
    • Virgil (70-19 BCE): Bucolics and Eclogues in Latin [Project Gutenberg]
    • Virgil (70-19 BCE): Bucolics and Eclogues in English [Project Gutenberg]
    • Aelius Donatus (fl. 350 CE): Life of Virgil, tr. David Wilson-Okamura [At Virgil.org] [Internet Archive version here]
    • WEB Virgil.org [Internet Archive version here]
    • WEB Virgil Home Page [Internet Archive version here]
      With links to all texts in both Latin and English.
  • Augustan Encomiums, c. 31 BCE - 14 CE [At this Site]
    Horace (65-8 BCE): Secular hymn, and Vergil (70-19 BCE): Aeneid, VI.ii.789-800, 847-853.
  • Horace (65-8 BCE): We All Must Die [Was At WSU, now Internet Archive]
  • Sulpicia (Late 1st Cent. CE): Poems [Was At Diotima, now Internet Archive] or in Latin [At Latin Library]
    The only surviving Roman female poet.
  • Sulpicia (Late 1st Cent. CE): Poems [At Diotima]
  • Statius (45-96 CE): Thebaid, Book 6, c 91 CE [Was At Brooklyn College, now Internet Archive]
  • Petronius Arbiter (c.27-66 CE): Satyricon c.61 CE
    • The Satyricon,   translated by Alfred R. Allinson, 1930. [English translation linked to Latin text][At Sacred Text Archive] [Internet Archive version here] Also in Latin [At Latin Library].
      [Note that most modern teachers would use the Arrowsmith translation (New American Library) which is considered to be very good.]
    • The Banquet of Trimalchio from the Satyricon [At this Site]
    • Trimalchio's Feast [Was At Coloraro, now Internet Archive]
      excerpt from the Satyricon.
    • 2ND The Satyricon of Petronius [ Was At Southwestern, now Internet Archive]
  • Juvenal and Persius: Satires: Introduction [At this Site]
  • Juvenal (c. 55/60-127 CE): Satires
  • Avianus (fl. c. 400 CE): Fabulae in Latin [Was At UPenn, now Internet Archive]
  • Priapea (collected 5th Cent CE) in Latin [Was At IPA, now Internet Archive]
  • Priapea (collected 5th Cent CE) in Latin and Engliosh, trans. Richard Burton [At Sacred Texts] [Internet Archive version here]
    Said by the Oxford Classical Dictionary to be "uniformly obscene".
  • Rutilius Numantius: On His Return, I.xi.47,  The Greatness of Rome in the Days of Ruin, 413CE [At this Site]
  • Pliny the Younger (61/62-113 CE): Letters, II.14: The Decline of Oratory [At this Site]
  • Jay Treat: Latin and Greek Literary Activity [At UPenn][Chart] [internet Archive version here]
    Rates levels of literary activity from 100 BCE to 1400CE.
  • WEB Latin Library
    Has many of the texts here available in original Latin.

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Art and Architecture

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Education

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Economic Life

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Slavery
  • Slavery in the Roman Republic, excerpts from Plautus, Pseudolus, Act. I, Sc. 2; Cato the Elder, Agriculture, chs. 56-59; Plautus, Menaechmi, Act V, Sc. 4.; and Plutarch, Life of Crassus, viii-xi (on the Spartacus revolt). [At this Site]
  • Texts on Three Slave Revolts
    A. Sicily 136-132 BCE - Diodorus Siculus (wrote 60-30 BCE), Bibliotheke Books 34/35. 2. 1-48; Strabo (64/3 BC- c.21 CE), Geography Book 6. 2. 6-7; Florus, Epitome of Roman History 2. 7. 1-8; Orosius, Histories Book 5. 6
    B. Sicily 104-100 BCE - Diodorus Siculus (wrote 60-30 BCE), Bibliotheke Book 36. 1-11; Florus, Epitome 2. 7. 9-12; Dio Cassius (c.155-235 CE), Roman History Book 27 fragment 101;
    C. The War with Spartacus 73-71 CE - Plutarch, Crassus 8-11; Florus, Epitome 2. 8. 20; Appian, The Civil Wars 1. 111-121; Orosius, Histories 5. 24. 1-8
  • Tacitus (b.56/57-after 117 CE): The Murder of Pedanius Secundus (Annals 14) [Was At Michigan, now Internet Archive]
    On the murder of a slave-owner by his slave, possibly because of homosexual jealousy. The senate addresses whether all the slaves in the house should be killed.
  • 2ND John Madden: Slavery in the Roman Empire Numbers and Origins [Was At Classics Ireland, now Internet Archive]

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Everyday Life

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Religion
See information on the Olympian Religion under Greek Religion on Greece. For the Roman Mystery Religions, see under Late Antiquity.

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Gender and Sexuality

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Modern Perspectives on Ancient Rome Back to Index

NOTES:

The Internet Ancient History Sourcebook is part of the Internet History Sourcebooks Project. The date of inception was 4/8/1998. Links to files at other site are indicated by [At some indication of the site name or location]. WEB indicates a link to one of small number of high quality web sites which provide either more texts or an especially valuable overview.

The Internet History Sourcebooks Project is located at the History Department of  Fordham University, New York. The Internet Medieval Sourcebook, and other medieval components of the project, are located at the Fordham University Center for Medieval Studies.The IHSP recognizes the contribution of Fordham University, the Fordham University History Department, and the Fordham Center for Medieval Studies in providing web space and server support for the project. The IHSP is a project independent of Fordham University.  Although the IHSP seeks to follow all applicable copyright law, Fordham University is not the institutional owner, and is not liable as the result of any legal action.

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