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General
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Rome: Major
Historians: Complete Texts
- Polybius (c.200-after 118 BCE)
- Julius Caesar (100-44 BCE):
- Livy (59 BCE-17 CE): History of Rome
Complete surving text online in English translation [At Virginia]
- Augustus (63 BCE-14 CE)
- Josephus (37- after 93 CE)
-
Complete Works [At CCEL]
Includes Antiquities of the Jews, The Jewish War and Against Apion
- Plutarch (c.46-c.120 CE)
- Tacitus: (b.56/57-after 117 CE)
- Suetonius (c.69-after 122 CE)
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Etruscans
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Roman Foundations
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The Growth of
Republican Institutions
- The Twelve Tables 451/450 BCE
selections, [At CSUN]
and in
Latin [At
Bibliotheca Augustana]
- The Twelve Tables 451/450 BCE selections, [At this Site]
-
Livy (59 BCE-17 CE): Selections
from Books 6 and 7 [At Internet Archive, from Princeton]
Book 6: 11, 14-20, 27, 31-32, 34-36, 39; Book 7: 19, 21-22, 27, 29, 38, 42.
- Polybius (c.200-after 185 BCE): Rome at the End of the
Punic Wars [History, Book 6] [At this Site] (Public Domain unlike next
selection, which is a more recent version.)
Includes an extended comparison of Rome and Carthage.
-
Polybius (c.200-after 185 BCE) Book 6.11-18: The Constitution of the
Roman Republic [At Saskatchewan]
- Chart: Roman Government: Checks and
Balances [From Polybius, Histories, 6]
-
Polybius (c.200-after 185 BCE): Extensive Selections,
[At Internet Archive, from Princeton]
Book I, sections 1-6 , 14 , 17 , 59 , 63-64; Book VI. 1-42, 53-58; Book X. 2-3; Book XXXI.
22-30
- 2ND The Concepts of Fides and Virtus [At CSUN]
-
2ND The
Republican Constitution [Modern Account][At Internet Archive, from Reed]
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The War with Carthage
- Herodotus (c.490-c.425 BCE): The Carthaginian Attack on
Sicily, 480 BCE [At this Site]
-
Cornelius Nepos (c.99-c.24 BCE): Hannibal, from De
Viribus Illustris, trans. J. Thomas, 1995. [At Iowa State]
The writer of the first surviving biography in Latin.
- Polybius (c.200-after 118 BCE): The Battle of Cannae,
216 BCE, History, Book III.107 [At this Site]
- Polybius (c.200-after 118 BCE): The Character of
Hannibal, The Histories, Book IX, Chapters 22-26 [At this Site]
- Polybius (c.200-after 118 BCE): The Third Punic War,
149-146 BCE, The Histories, Book XXXVI-XXXIX [At this Site]
-
2ND The Punic
Wars [Modern account][At Internet Archive, from Reed College]
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Imperial Expansion
under the Republic
- Chinese Accounts of
Rome, Byzantium and the Middle East, c. 91 B.C.E. - 1643 C.E.
-
Time
Line for Foreign Policy to 272 BCE [At Internet Archive, from Reed]
- Polybius (c.200-after 118 BCE): The Roman Maniple vs.
The Macedonian Phalanx, The Histories, Book XVIII, Chapters 28-32 [At this
Site]
- Plutarch (c.46-c.120 CE): Life
of Pyrrhus [At MIT]
- Polybius (c.200-after 118 BCE): The Destruction of
Corinth, 146 BCE The Histories, Book XXXVIII, Chapters 3-11; Book XXXIX,
Chapters 7-17 [At this Site]
- Plutarch (c.46-c.120 CE): Life
of Cato the Elder (234-149 BCE)[At MIT]
- Mithridates & The Roman Conquests in the East, 90-61
BCE, excerpts from Appian, Mithridatic Wars, 114-119, and Plutarch, Life of
Lucullus. [At this Site]:
-
Julius Caesar (100-44 BCE): T-allic Wars [At
MIT]
-
Julius Caesar (100-44 BCE): Caesar
and Vercingetorix, 52 BCE [At Internet Archive, from Hillsdale]
- Tacitus: (b.56/57-after 117 CE):
Boudicca (Annals 14: 29-37) [Athenapu-li>
- 2ND The Landings of Caesar in Britain, 55 and
54 BCE [At Athenapub]
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2ND Rome,
Greece and the East to 168 BCE [Modern Account][At Internet Archive, from Reed]
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Civil Wars and Revolution
- Appian {1st Cent CE): The Civil Wars (On the Gracchi) [This Site]
- Plutarch (c.46-c.120 CE): Life
of Tiberius Gracchus (c.164-133 BCE) [At MIT]
- Plutarch (c.46-c.120 CE): Tiberius Gracchus (c.164-133 BCE) translated by John Dryden, excerpts. [At this Site]
See 2ND
Sources on
Tiberius Gracchus [At Internet Archive, from Reed]
- Plutarch (c.46-c.120 CE) Life
of Caius Gracchus (c.121 BCE)[At MIT]
-
The Gracchi [Modern Account][At Internet Archive, from Reed]
- Plutarch (c.46-c.120 CE): Life of
Sulla (c.138-78BCE)[At MIT]
- Plutarch (c.46-c.120 CE): Life
of Marius (157-86 BCE)[At MIT]
- Sallust (prob.86-35 BCE): Life in Rome in the Late Republic,
. 63 BCE, excerpts from the Catiline Conspiracy [At this Site]
-
Sallust (prob.86-35 BCE): The Cati- Conspiracy,
63 BCE [At Forum Romanorum]
-
Cicero (105-43 BCE): First
Oration Against Catiline<-63 BCE [At Bartleby]
- Lucan (Marcus Annaeus Lucanus) (39-65 CE): Pharsalia (aka "The Civil
War") [At OMACL]
- Plutarch (c.46-c.120 CE): Life of
Pompey (100-48 BCE)[At MIT]
- Plutarch (c.46-c.120 CE): Life
of Crassus (115-53 BCE)[At MIT]
- Cicero (105-43 BCE)
- Cicero (105-43 BCE): Selected Letters. 36 selected
letters. [At this Site]
- Cicero (105-43 BCE): On Friendship, or Laelius,
full text, trans by Evelyn S. Shuckburgh [At this Site]
- Cicero (105-43 BCE): On Friendship, or Laelius,
full text, trans by W. Melmoth [At this Site]
- Cicero (105-43 BCE): Old Age, c. 65 BCE (Harvard
Classics series)[At this Site]
- Cicero (105-43 BCE): On the Laws, excerpts from Books II
and III, [At this Site]
- Cicero (105-43 BCE): On the Republic, excerpts from
Book I, [At this Site]
- Cicero (105-43 BCE): On the Republic: Scipio's Dream,
excerpts from Book VI, [At this Site]
- Cicero (105-43 BCE): The Second Philippic [At
this Site]
- Cicero (105-43 BCE): On the
Genres of Rhetoric. excerpts from various texts, [At Towson]
- Plutarch (c.46-c.120 CE): Life of
Cicero (98-c.55 BCE)[At MIT]
- Asconius (9 BCE-76 CE): On
Cicero's Pro Milone [At CSUN]
- WEB Cicero Homepage [At
Utexas] for texts in Latin
- The Roman Candidate, 64, 54 BCE
Quintus Cicero, Letter to His Brother Marcus Cicero, on the problems of running
for office.
- Plutarch (c.46-c.120 CE): Life of
Caesar (100-44 BCE)[At MIT]
- Suetonius (c.69-after 122 CE): De Vita Caesarum,
Divus Iulius (The Lives of the Caesars, The Deified Julius), written c. 110 CE, Rolfe
translation. [At this Site]
- Plutarch (c.46-c.120 CE): The Assassination of Julius
Caesar, from Marcus Brutus, excerpts, translated by John Dryden. [At this
Site]
- Plutarch (c.46-c.120 CE): Life of
Anthony (82-30 BCE) [At MIT]
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The Principate to 192 CE
- Augustus
-
Cicero (105-43 BCE): Selections from- Letters on the Rise of Augustus [At Saskatchewan]
- Tacitus (b.56/57-after 117 CE): The End of the Republic [This Site]
- Augustus (63 BCE-14 CE): Acts of
the Divine Augustus (Res Gestae Divi Augusti) [At MIT]
- Augustus (63 BCE-14 CE): Res Gestae [In Latin][At CSUN]
-
Augustus (63 BCE-14 CE): Selections from th-ts
of the Divine Augustus (Res Gestae Divi Augusti) [At Saskatchewan]
- Augustus (63 BCE-14 CE): Res Gestae Divi Augusti,
c. 14 CE, long excerpts, in English. [At this Site]
-
Augustus (63 BCE-14 CE): Select Testimonia- [At Saskatchewan]
- 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.
- Suetonius (c.69-after 122 CE): Life
of Augustus (outline)(63 BCE-14 CE) [At CSUN]
- Suetonius (c.69-after 122 CE): De Vita
Caesarum-Augustus, written c. 110 CE, Rolfe translation, [At this Site]
- Suetonius (c.69-after 122 CE): Life of Augustus,
complete, Worthington translation, [At this Site]
- Nicolaus of Damascus (1st Cent CE): Life of Augustus (63 BCE-14 CE)[At
CSUN]
- Claudius Claudian: Panegyricus de
Sexto Consulatu Honorii Augusti. In Latin [At Upenn]
- Augustus' Legislation [At CSUN]
-
Velleius Paterculus (c.19 BCE-after 30 CE: The
Battle of Teutoburg Forest, 9 CE [At Hillsdale]
- Chart: Roman Government Under
Augustus [GIF File][At this Site]
-
2ND Nina C. Coppolino: Au-us [At Roman Emperors]
-
2ND Sources on Augustus [Modern Account][At Internet Archive, from Reed]
- WEB Mausoleum of Augustus Texts [At
CSUN]
- The Julio-Claudian Dynasty 14-68 CE
- Suetonius: De Vita Caesarum: Tiberius, written c.
110 CE, Rolfe translation, [At this Site]
- Suetonius (c.69-after 122 CE): De Vita Caesarum: Caius
Caligula (The Lives of the Caesars: Caius Caligula), written c. 110 CE, Rolfe
translation [At this Site]
- Suetonius (c.69-after 122 CE): Life
of Claudius, complete, Worthington translation, [At this Site]
- Suetonius (c.69-after 122 CE): De Vita Caesarum:
Claudius (The Lives of the Caesars: Claudius), written c. 110 CE, Rolfe
translation [At this Site]
-
Proclamation of Nero's
Succession Nov 17, 54 CE [in Greek and Engli-At Hanson's website]
- Suetonius (c.69-after 122 CE): De Vita Caesarum: Nero,
written c. 110 CE, Rolfe translation [At this Site]
-
Suetonius (c.69-after 122 CE): Life of Nero, complete. in Latin [At
- Freenfo]
- Tacitus (b.56/57-after 117 CE): Murder of Agrippina (Book XIV,
1-16) [At Heliogabby)
-
Tacitus (b.56/57-after 117 CE): The Fire of Rome 64 CE [At
Eyewi-s to History]
- Dio Cassius (c.155-235 CE): Nero and the Great Fire of
Rome, 64 CE, from Roman History, 62.16-18 [At this Site]
- Tacitus (b.56/57-after 117 CE): Annals: Book I 64 CE [At Calgary]
-
Tacitus (b.56/57-after 117 CE): Annals and Histories, Full
texts&nbs-At M Univ]
- 69 CE: Year of Three Emperors
- Suetonius (c.69-after 122 CE): De Vita Caesarum: Galba,
written c. 110 CE, Rolfe translation [At this Site]
- Suetonius (c.69-after 122 CE): De Vita Caesarum: Otho,
written c. 110 CE, Rolfe translation [At this Site]
- Suetonius (c.69-after 122 CE): De Vita Caesarum:
Vitellius, written c. 110 CE, Rolfe translation [At this Site]
- Suetonius (c.69-after 122 CE): Life of Vitellius (b. 15 - r. 69 -d.69 CE)
Chap. 13: The Gormandizing of the Emperor Vitellius.[At this Site]
- The Flavian Emperors 69-96 CE
- Tacitus (b.56/57-after 117 CE): The Legions Proclaim
Vespasian Emperor, 69 CE [This Site]
-
Lex De Imperio Vespasiani "The Law-cerning the power of Vespasian" [document designation: ILS 244]
69/70 CE [At Internet Archive, from Iowa State]
- Suetonius (c.69-after 122 CE): De Vita Caesarum:
Vespasian, written c. 110 CE, Rolfe translation [At this Site]
- Suetonius (c.69-after 122 CE): De Vita Caesarum: Titus,
written c. 110 CE, Rolfe translation [At this Site]
- Suetonius (c.69-after 122 CE): De Vita Caesarum:
Domitian, written c. 110 CE, Rolfe translation [At this Site]
- Suetonius (c.69-after 122 CE): Life of Domitian (b. 51 - r. 81 - d. 96 CE) Chap. IV: How Domitian Attempted to Amuse the Roman Populace.
[At this Site]
- Tacitus (b.56/57-after 117 CE): Life of Cnaeus
Julius Agricola (40-93 CE), c.98 CE, trans. J. Church and W. J. Brodribb. [At
this Site]
-
Tacitus (b.56/57-after 117 CE): The Life of Gnaeus Julius
Agricola (4- CE) [At UNRV]
Contains a famous speech condemning imperialism by Calgacus.
- The Adoptive Emperors 96-192 CE
- Tacitus (b.56/57-after 117 CE): The Principle of Adoption [At this Site]
- Aurelius Victor, Liber de
Caesaribus 13: Trajan [In Latin][At CSUN]
- Pliny the Younger (61/62-113 CE): Selected Letters, c
100 CE (Harvard Classics series)[At this Site]
Selected letters: General (110 letters), and Correspondence with the Emperor Trajan (122
letters).
- Pliny the Younger (61/62-113 CE) and Trajan (r.98-117 CE): Letters,
Book X. 25ff : The Correspondence of a Provincial Governor and the Emperor Trajan,
c. 112 CE [At this Site]
- Pliny the Younger (61/62-113 CE): The Letters of Pliny the
Consul. With Occasional Remarks., Vol.2, (Tenth Edition), William Melmoth, London
(1805) [lightly emended] Book 10 [At Princeton]
- Aelius Spartianus: Life of Hadrian, (r. 117-138 CE.),
excerpts. [At this Site]
- Aelius Spartianus: Life of Hadrian, (r. 117-138 CE.),
complete. [At this Site]
- Marcus Aurelius (b.121- r.161-d.180): The
Character of Antoninus Pius (b.86-r.138-d.161 CE), from Meditations I.16:
[At this Site]
- Julius Capitolinus: The Life of Antoninus Pius [At
this Site]
- Eutropius (4th Cent CE): The Reign of Marcus
Aurelius, 161-180 CE, from Compendium of Roman History, 8:.12-14 [At
this Site]
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Roman Law
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The Army
- Livy (59 BCE-17 CE): The Roman Way of Declaring War, c.
650 BCE, from History of Rome I.34 [At this Site]
- Valerius Maximus and Livy on Roman
Soldiers [At CSUN]
- Josephus (37- after 93 CE): The Roman Army in the First
Century CE, from The Jewish War, [This Site]
- Josephus (37- after 93 CE): An Imperial Triumph, 71 CE,
from The Jewish War, [This Site]
- Letters Written by Roman Soldiers,
2 CE [At CSUN[
- Roman Soldier's Enlistment,
Egypt, 51 CE [At CSUN]
-
Vegetius (4th Cent CE): Epitoma Rei
Militari, Book I:11-20-sp; c. 371-392 CE, [At Armentarium]
The only Roman military tract to survive, and the most influential military text in the
western world until the 19th century. Probably addressed to Theodosius the Great.
See also this useful
bibliography [At
ibiblio]
2NDArmy Bibliography [At CSUN]
-
WEB Armentarium: Roman Arms and Armour [-ite]
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The Empire and Provinces
-
Claudius Ptolemy (C.127-148 CE) : The
Geography [A-cus Curtius/Chicago]
The entire text, with maps, is being put up on the web.
- Rome: As Imperial Capital
- The Empire as a Unity
- Africa
- Accounts of Meröe, Kush, and Axum, c. 430 BCE - 550 CE [At
this Site]
From Herodotus, Strabo, Dio Cassius, the King of Axum, and and Procopius of Caesarea.
- Herodotus (c.490-c.425 BCE): On Libya, from The
Histories, c. 430 BCE [At this Site]
- Accounts of Ancient Mauretania, c. 430 BCE- 550 CE
[At this Site]
From Herodotus, Strabo, and Procopius of Caesarea
- Egypt
- Syria/Judea
-i>Asia
- Asia Minor
- Pliny the Younger (61/62-113 CE) and Trajan (r.98-117 CE): Letters,
Book X. 25ff : The Correspondence of a Provincial Governor and the Emperor Trajan,
c. 112 CE [At this Site]
- Europe
- Julius Caesar (100-44 BCE): The Germans, c. 51
BCE [At this Site]
-
Julius Caesar (100-44 BCE): On the Germans, 53 BCE [At
Intern-rchive, from Princeton]
- Tacitus (b.56/57-after 117 CE): Germania. trans. J. Church
and W. J. Brodribb.[At Medieval Sourcebook]
- Tacitus (b.56/57-after 117 CE): Germania, trans.
Thomas Gordon, full text, Also available in Latin. [At
Medieval Sourcebook]
- Tacitus (b.56/57-after 117 CE): Germania,
shorter excerpts. [At Medieval Sourcebook]
- Salvian (c.400- after 470 CE]: The Burden of Taxation,
[c.440 CE] [At Medieval Scourcebook]
- Sidonius Apollinaris [c.431-c.489 CE]: "Country House Life in
Gaul" and "A Visigothic King", [At Medieval Sourcebook]
-
- Britain
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Later Empire (after 192 CE)
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Literature
- WEB Tools of the Trade for the Study of Roman
Literature, by Lowell Edmunds and Shirley Werner [At Rutgers]
-
Plautus (d.184 BCE): The Brothers
Menaechmus [At Internet Archive, from Rho-
-
Plautus (d.184 BCE): Aulularia [At Forum Romanorum]
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])
[At Then Again].
- Lucretius (9-55 BCE): The Nature of Things [At
this Site, formerly ERIS][Full Text][Ascii Text in one file]
-
Catullus (c.84-c.54 BCE): Poems [At
Saskatchewan]
-
- Virgil (70-19 BCE)
-
Virgil (70-19 BCE): The
Aeneid, Dryden translation, [At MIT][Full Text][Chapter files]
See <-ng>2ND
Study Guide [At Internet Archive, from Brooklyn
College]
- Aelius Donatus (fl. 350 CE):-href="http://www.virgil.org/vitae/a-donatus.htm">Life of
Virgil, tr. David Wilson-Okamura [At Virgil.org]
- WEB Virgil.org [Website]
- WEB Virgil Home Page [Website]
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 [At WSU]
-
Sulpicia (Late 1st Cent. CE): Poems [At Diotima]
or in Latin [At Latin Library]
Th-ly surviving Roman female poet.
- Petronius Arbiter (c.27-66 CE): Satyricon c.61 CE
- Juvenal and Persius: Satires: Introduction [At
this Site]
- Persius (34-63 CE): Satires
- the complete Latin/English text is in preparation for this site.
- Juvenal (c. 55/60-127 CE): Satires
- Avianus (fl. c. 400 CE): Fabulae in Latin [At UPenn]
- Priapea (collected 5th Cent CE) in
Latin [At IPA]
Said by the Oxford Classical Dictionary2 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]
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
-
Pl-the Elder (23/4-79 CE): Natural
History in Latin [At Lacus Curtius][Full Text]
- Letter Home of a Roman "University-t; Student,
44 BCE [At this Site]
By Cicero's son.
- Roman Educational Practices, [At this Site]
Texts from Horace: Satires, I.6.xi.70-90; Pliny the Younger: Letters,
IV.13; and Martial: Epigrams, X.62
- Seneca (b.4 BC/1 CE-d. 65 CE): On Tranquillity of Mind
9.4ff and in Latin [At
UPenn]
On the problem of having too many books.
- Julius Victor (4th Cent CE): On
Letter Writing, in Latin [At UPenn]
- Quintilian (b.30/35-c.100 CE): The Ideal Education,
The Institutes, Book 1: 1-26, c. 90 CE [At this Site]
-
Quintilian (b.30/35-c.100 CE): Institutes of Oratory,
c.96 CE. [At Iowa State]
-
WEB The Quintilian Page [At
MSU]
- Plutarch (c.46-c.120 CE): The Training of Children,
c. 1-E [At this Site]
- Donatus: De barbarismo, with
trans. by Jim Marchand [At U Penn]
- WEB Images of Orality and Literacy in
Greek Iconography of the Fifth, Fourth and Third Centuries BCE, ed. Andrew Weisner [At
U Penn]
- WEB Levels of Greek and Latin Literary
Activity [At U Penn]
- WEB Manuscript Images:
Technology of the Word in the Middle Ages, ed. James O'Donnel [At U Penn]
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Economic Life
- Life of the Upper Classes
- Trade
- Counting
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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) [At Michigan]
On the murder of a slave-owner by his slave, possibly because of e-c jealously. The
senate addresses whether all the slaves in the house should be killed.
-
2ND John Madden, Slavery in the Roman Empire Numbers
and Origins [At Internet Archive, from Classics Ireland][Modern Account]
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Everyday Life
- Food
- Sport and Games
- Names
Bac- Index
Religion
See information on the Olympian Religion under Greek Religion on Greece. For the Roman Mystery
Religions, see under Late Antiquity.
- Numa (c.715-673 BCE): The Institutions of Roman Religion, 7th
Cent. BCE, from Plutarch, Life of Numa, [At this Site]
- Accounts of Roman State Religion, c. 200 BCE- 250CE [At
this Site]
Collected accounts from Cato, Cicero, Livy and Plutarch.
- Roman Religious Toleration: The Senatus Consultum de Bacchanalibus,
186 BCE, from Livy, History of Rome, Book XXXIX [At this Site]
- Roman Religiones Licitae and Illicitae, c. 204 BCE
- 112 CE [At this Site]
Different reactions to different foreign religions - the cults of Magna Mater, Dionysius,
and Christianity.
- Expiation
of an Umbrian Town: Archaic Roman Sacrifice [At enteract.com]
- An
Offering for Jupiter before the Sowing Cato, On Agriculture 132, 160 BCE [At
enteract.com]
- A
Roman Harvest Sacrifice, from Cato, On Agriculture 134, 160 BCE [At
enteract.com]
- The
Flamen Dialis and his Wife [At enteract.com]
- Devotio:
The Sacrificial Death of Decius, Livy, History of Rome VIII, 9, 1-11; 10, 3)
[At enteract.com]
- The
Prayer of Scipio Africanus Livy, History of Rome XXIX, 27, 1-4, 204 BCE [At
enteract.com]
- Cicero (105-43 BCE): A Roman
View of the Afterlife: The Dream of Scipio, On the Republic VI, 14-26) [At
enteract.com]
- Cicero (105-43 BCE): On the Republic: Scipio's Dream,
excerpts from Book VI, [At this Site]
- Halicarnassus Inscription (after 2 BCE) Augustus:
Father of His Own Fatherland [At enteract.com]
- Lucius Apuleius (c.123-c.170 CE): Personal
Piety in Rome: Second Century CE Apologia 55-6 [At enteract.com]
- Persius Flaccus (34-63 CE): Satire II, c. 60 CE [This Site]
- Tacitus (b.56/57-after 117 CE): Rebuilding the Temple of
Jupiter, 70 CE [This Site]
- Accounts of Personal Religion, c. 430 BCE - 300 CE [At
this Site]
Festivals, temples, expectations.
-
WEB List of all the Roman Gods [Website]
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Gender and Sexuality
- Women
-
WEB Diotima
-
Juvenal (c.55-c.130 CE): Satire 2,
excerpts, [At D-ma]
Sheer misogyny.
- Juvenal (c.55-c.130 CE): Satire 6, long excerpts, [At this
-e]
More misogyny.
- Juvenal (c.55-c.130 CE): Satire 6 [On Women],
complete, [At this Site]
- <-updated-3/2007 -->WEB Women in Antiquity [At Cornell]
- Homosexuality
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Modern Perspectives on
Ancient Rome
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NOTES: Dates of accession of material added since July 1998- be seen in the New Additions page. 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]. Locally available texts are marked by [At this Site]. 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 Ancient History Sourcebook is part of the
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
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