Historians of Ancient Rome An Anthology of the Major Writings

Name: Historians of Ancient Rome An Anthology of the Major Writings
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ISBN: 9780415971089

ISBN-10: 041597108X

ISBN-13: 9780415971089

Edition: 2nd 2005 (Revised)

Authors: Ronald Mellor

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This anthology of the major writings of ancient Rome is unique in that no other equivalent book contains complete texts. It covers over 600 years of historical writing from Livy's account of Rome's foundation to Marcellinus's account of Roman defeat.

Book details

List price: $39.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 7/14/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 632
Size: 6.18" wide x 9.06" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.892
Language: English



Preface to the Second Edition


Introduction


Polybius


Histories


I 1-14


II 1-2; 7-12


III 1; 4; 6-31


VI 11-18; 56-57


Appian


The Civil Wars 1 1-26


Sallust


The Catilinarian Conspiracy 1-61


Cicero


First Oration Against Catiline


Letters


To Atticus 1 2


To Pompey in Letters to Friends V 1


To Atticus VIII 8; XIV 12


To Marcus Brutus at Dyrrachium I 3


To Atticus XVI 8


To Decimus Brutus in Letters to Friends II, 20


C. Julius Caesar


Commentaries on the Gallic War


I 1-54


VI 11-28


Livy


From the Founding of the City


I 1-13; 15-17; 34-49; 55-60


II 31-40


III 33-37; 44-49; 56-58


V 34-49


XXI 1-2; 20-48


XXII 3-7; 44-51


XXX 28-37


XXXI 1-9


XXXIII 6-10; 30-33; 38-40


XXXIV 1-8


XXXVI 15-19


XXXVIII 37-38


XXXIX 51


Augustus


The Achievements of Augustus (Res Gestae Divi Augusti)


Appendix 1-4


Josephus


Jewish War VII 8-9


Suetonius


Life of Julius Caesar 1-89


Life of Augustus 1-101


Tacitus


The Life of Agricola


Annals


I 1-15; 33-53; 72-75


II 69-73


III 1-18


IV 1-12; 32-35


V 50-51


XI 23-38


XII 65-69


XIII 1-5


XIV 1-11; 60-65


XV 37-44; 60-64


XVI 18-19


Histories


I 1-16


III 66-72


Pliny the Younger


Letters to Tacitus on Vesuvius VI 16; 20


Letters Between Pliny and Trajan on the Christians X 96-97


Cassius Dio


Roman History Epitome of Book LXVIII


Eusebius


The Life of Constantine 1 1-42


Writers of Augustan History (Scriptores Historiae Augustae)


Life of Hadrian


Ammianus Marcellinus


Histories


XXV 1-4


XXXI 12-14


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