4. Ancient Rome (includes Byzantine Empire)
Ammianus Marcellinus. The Later Roman Empire (A.D. 354-378). Selected and translated by Walter Hamilton. Harmondsworth, Engl.: Penguin Books, 1986. RVS: DG 316.7 .A452513 1986
Anonymous. Lives of the Later Caesars: The First Part of the Augustan History: With Newly Compiled Lives of Nerva and Trajan. Translated and introduced by Anthony Birley. Harmondsworth, Engl.: Penguin Books, 1996. (Written in the late fourth century by an anonymous author pretending to be a team of six much earlier biographers. Use with caution. As the editor points out in introductions to the documents, many are almost wholly fictional in character.) RGC: DG: 274 .S32 1976
Appianus, of Alexandria. The Civil Wars. Translated by John Carter. London, Engl.: Penguin Books, 1996. (Author more familiarly known as Appian. Time covered: 133 BCE to the conflicts which followed the assassination of Julius Caesar. An excellent source for the period and subject.) NRG: DG 354 .A6713 1996
Aurelius Antonius, Marcus. The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius. Translated by A. S. L. Farquharson. (Everyman’s Library.) New York: A. A. Knopf, 1992. CYP, EVC, NRG, PIN, RGC, RVS: B 580 .F37 1992. (NRG has another edition, with the call number BJ 160 .P7 1937. The title for this edition in the catalog is The Apology, Phaedo and Crito of Plato.)
Aurelius Antonius, Marcus, and others. Marcus Aurelius and His Times: The Transition from Paganism to Christianity. New York: Walter J. Black, 1945. (Contents: Marcus Aurelius, Meditations; Lucian, Hermotimus and Icaromenippus; Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho, a Jew (abridged), First Apology (abridged); anonymous, Martyrdom of the Holy Martyrs. Marcus Aurelius was a Stoic; Lucian, a Skeptic; and Justin Martyr, a Christian.) RVS: B 505 .M48 1945
Caesar, Julius. Alexandrian, African, and Spanish Wars. (The Loeb Classical Library.) Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1988. NRG: PA 156 .C33 1988
Caesar, Julius. The Civil Wars. (Loeb Classical Library.) Cambridge Mass: Harvard University Press, 1990 NRG: PA 156 .C18 1990
Caesar, Julius. The Conquest of Gaul. Translated by S. A. Handford. Revised with a new introduction by Jane F. Gardner. London: Penguin Books, 1982. RGC: PA 6239 .A1 H36 1982
Cassius Dio Cocceianus. The Roman History: The Reign of Augustus. Translated by Ian Scott-Tilvert. Harmondworth, Engl.: Penguin Books, 1987. RGC: DG 279 .C3613 1987
Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Selected Works of Cicero. Introduction by Harry M. Hubbell. Roslyn, N.Y.: Walter J. Black, 1948. RVS: PA 6307 .A2 1948
Davenport, Basil, ed. The Portable Roman Reader. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, Eng.: Penguin Books, 1977. NRG, RGC: PA 6163 .D38 1977
Fantham, Elaine, and others. Women in the Classical World: Image and Text. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. (From the Preface: “The purpose of this book is to gather the most important primary sources, both written and visual, for the lives of ancient women, and to present them within their historical and cultural contexts.” Two sections: “Women in the Greek World” and “Women in the Roman World.” User should differentiate between the quoted documents, which are primary sources, and the comments of the authors, which are not.) RVS: HQ 1127 .W652 1994
Josephus. The Jewish War. Translated by G. A. Williamson. London, UK: Penguin Group, 1981. (Author was a Jew who participated in the conflict between Rome and the Jews of Palestine (66-70 CE) At first he fought against the Romans but later changed sympathies. Written soon after the end of the conflict, the work is a general history of the event.) RGC: DS 122.8 .J733 1977.
Kaegi, Walter Emil, Jr., and Peter White, eds. Rome: Late Republic and Principate. (Readings in Western Civilization, No. 2.) Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1986. RVS: DG 209 .R6 1986.
Lefkowitz, Mary R., and Maureen B. Fant, comps. Women’s Life in Greece and Rome: A Source Book in Translation. 2nd edition. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. NRG, RVS: HG 1127 .W653 1993
Lewis, Naphtali, and Meyer Reinhold, eds. Roman Civilization; Selected Readings. 3rd ed. Volume I, The Republic and the Augustan Age. Volume II, The Empire, 3d ed. (Records of Civilization: Sources and Studies.) New York: Columbia University Press, 1990. RVS: DG 13 .L4 1990
Livy. The Early History of Rome. (Books I-V of the History of Rome from Its Foundation.) Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1971. RVS: DG 207 .L5 1971
Lucan. Civil War. Translated from Latin by Susan H. Braund. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. (An epic poem, written in the first century CE. Subject is the civil war between the forces of Caesar and Pompey in the first century BCE. Not a work of history but draws on historical sources, some of which are lost to modern scholars. Use with caution but can be valuable, especially with respect to Lucan’s viewpoints, which included hatred of Caesar and a very negative attitude toward the concept of civil war.) NRG: PA 6479 .E5 B73 1992
Pliny the Younger. Letters, and Panegyricus. Translated by Betty Radice. 2 vols. (Loeb Classical Library.) Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1989-92. NRG: PA .P6
Plutarch. Plutarch’s Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans. New York: Modern Library, 1979. EVC, NRG: DE 7 .P5 1979b. (RVS has another edition with the call number PA 4374 .V4 P497 1932.)
Polybius. The Rise of the Roman Empire. Translated by Ian Scott-Kilvert. Penguin Books, 1979. (Author, a Greek statesman and historian, lived c.200-118 B.C.E. Book contains much of the small amount of material that has survived of author’s 40-vol. Universal History. Subjects include Punic Wars, the Gallic invasion of Italy, the First Illyrian War, Rome’s conquest of Macedonia and Greece, the Seleucid and Ptomelaic kingdoms, the Roman constitution, etc.) RVS: DG 241 .P64213 1979
Procopius. Secret History. Translated by Richard Atwater. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1963. (This work, written in 550 A.D., is a scathing indictment of the Emperor Justinian and his sixth-century Byzantine court. Author has been called “the greatest historian of the Later Roman Empire.”) PIN: DF 572 .P83 1963
Shelton, Jo-Ann. As the Romans Did: A Source Book in Roman Social History. Oxford University Press, 1988. (Subject matter: structure of society, families, marriage, housing and city life, domestic and personal concerns, education, occupations, slaves, freedmen, government and politics, army, the provinces, women, leisure and entertainment, religion and philosophy.) NRG: HN 10 .R7 S45 1988
Tacitus, Cornelius. The Complete Works of Tacitus. New York: Modern Library, 1942. (Includes: The Annals, The History, The Life of Cnaeus Agricola, Germany and its Tribes, and A Dialogue on Oratory.) RGC: DG 207 .T2 C45