Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: New Additions

WEB Electronic New Testament Manuscripts Project [added 3/5/99]
Junillus: Instituta Regularia c. 542 CE [At U Penn][added 3/5/99]
WEB The Ancient City of Athens [At Indiana][added 3/5/99]
A photographic archive of the archaeological and architectural remains of ancient Athens.
WEB The Acropolis [At vacation.net.gr][added 3/5/99]
Includes a model reconstruction.
WEB Images of Orality and Literacy in Greek Iconography of the Fifth, Fourth and Third Centuries BCE, ed. Andrew Weisner [At U Penn][added 3/5/99]
WEB Manuscript Images: Technology of the Word in the Middle Ages, ed. James O'Donnel [At U Penn][added 3/5/99]
WEB Levels of Greek and Latin Literary Activity [At U Penn][added 3/5/99]
The Pyramids [At pharos.bu.edu][added 3/5/99]
A spectacular picture.
The Black Athena Dispute [At Reed College][added 3/5/99]
With links to source material.
2ND Ancient Hellenes in America? [At ancientgr.com][added 3/5/99]
A sort of "White Athena", useful for showing the type of argument which concentrates on minor details and ignores the wider picture.
A Collection of Mesopotamian Laws, c. 2250 - 550 BCE [At this Site][added 3/5/99]
The Reports of the Magicians & Astrologers of Nineveh & Babylon, c. 2500 - 670 BCE [At this Site][added 3/5/99]
Some Neo-Babylonian Legal Decisions, c. 555-427 BCE [At this Site][added 3/5/99]
A Collection of Contracts from Mesopotamia, c. 2300 - 428 BCE [At this Site][added 3/5/99]
Hesiod: Theogony, excerpts [At this Site][added 3/5/99]
The Lot of the Hellenic Woman, c. 700-300 BCE [At this Site][added 3/5/99]
Euripides: Orestes a modern actable translation by Andrew Wilson [At Classics Pages][added 3/5/99]
Euripides: The Phoenissae a modern actable translation by Andrew Wilson [At Classics Pages][added 3/5/99]
Euripides: Helen, a modern actable translation by Andrew Wilson [At Classics Pages][added 3/5/99]
Testamentum porcelli [At U Penn][added 3/5/99]
A Roman pig sees its doom.
Claudius Claudian: Panegyricus de Sexto Consulatu Honorii Augusti. In Latin [At Upenn][added 3/5/99]
Donatus: De barbarismo, with trans. by Jim Marchand [At U Penn][added 3/5/99]
Suetonius: De Vita Caesarum-Tiberius, trans J.C. Rolfe [At this Site][added 3/5/99]
Suetonius: De Vita Caesarum-Augustus, trans J.C. Rolfe [At this Site][added 3/5/99]
Juvenal: Satire VI [On Women][At this Site][added 3/5/99]
Julius Capitolinus: The Life of Antoninus Pius [At this Site][added 3/5/99]
Galgacus: On Roman Imperialism, From Tacitus, [At this Site][added 3/5/99]

January 1999

WEB Complete On-Line Works and Commentary. [At Bjorn][added 1/27/99]
Galen (129-199 CE): On the Natural Faculties, [At Medicina Antiqua, formerly ERIS][added 1/27/99]
Galen (129-199 CE): On Hippocrates On the Nature of Man [At Medicina Antiqua, formerly ERIS][added 1/27/99]
Plotinus (c.205-c.270 CE): Six Enneads [At this Site, formerly ERIS][Full Text][Ascii Text in one file][added 1/27/99]
Lucretius (98-c.55 BCE): The Nature of Things [At this Site, formerly ERIS][Full Text][Ascii Text in one file][added 1/27/99]
Tacitus: Annals [At this Site, formerly ERIS][Full Text][Ascii Text in one file][added 1/27/99]
Aristophanes: The Acharnians 425 BCE [At Eserver, formerly ERIS][added 1/27/99]
Aristophanes: The Birds 414 BCE [At Eserver, formerly ERIS][added 1/27/99]
Aristophanes: The Clouds 423 BCE [At Eserver, formerly ERIS][added 1/27/99]
Aristophanes: The Ecclesiazusae (Women in Politics) [At Eserver, formerly ERIS][added 1/27/99]
Aristophanes: The Frogs 405 BCE [At Eserver, formerly ERIS][added 1/27/99]
Aristophanes: The Knights 424BCE [At Eserver, formerly ERIS][added 1/27/99]
Aristophanes: Lysistrata 411 BCE [At Eserver, formerly ERIS][added 1/27/99]
Aristophanes: Peace 421 BCE [At Eserver, formerly ERIS][added 1/27/99]
Aristophanes: Plutus 382 BCE (his last play) [At Eserver, formerly ERIS][added 1/27/99]
Aristophanes: The Thesmophorizusae 411BCE [At Eserver, formerly ERIS][added 1/27/99]
Aristophanes: The Wasps 422 BCE [At Eserver, formerly ERIS][added 1/27/99]
Euripides: The Bacchae [At this Site, formerly ERIS][Full Text][Ascii Text in one file][added 1/27/99]
Euripides: Hippolytus [At this Site, formerly ERIS][Full Text][Ascii Text in one file][added 1/27/99]
Sophocles: Antigone 442 BCE [At this Site, formerly ERIS][Full Text][Ascii Text in one file][added 1/27/99]
Aeschylus: Agamemnon [At this Site, formerly ERIS][Full Text][Ascii Text in one file][added 1/27/99]
Aeschylus: Eumendides [At this Site, formerly ERIS][Full Text][Ascii Text in one file][added 1/27/99]
Aristotle: Nichomachean Ethics [At this Site, formerly ERIS][Full Text][Ascii Text in one file][added 1/27/99]
Aristotle: Politics [At this Site, formerly ERIS][Full Text][Ascii Text in one file][added 1/27/99]
Aristotle: Metaphysics [At this Site, formerly ERIS][Full Text][Ascii Text in one file][added 1/27/99]
Aristotle: Physics [At this Site, formerly ERIS][Full Text][Ascii Text in one file][added 1/27/99]
Aristotle: Poetics [At this Site, formerly ERIS][Full Text][Ascii Text in one file][added 1/27/99]
Plato: The Meno [At this Site, formerly ERIS][Full Text][Ascii Text in one file][added 1/27/99]
Plato: The Gorgias [At this Site, formerly ERIS][Full Text][Ascii Text in one file][added 1/27/99]
Plato: The Symposium [At this Site, formerly ERIS][Full Text][Ascii Text in one file][added 1/27/99]
Plato: The Republic [At this Site, formerly ERIS][Full Text][Ascii Text in one file][added 1/27/99]
Plato: The Crito [At this Site, formerly ERIS][Full Text][Ascii Text in one file][added 1/27/99]
Plato: The Phaedo [At this Site, formerly ERIS][Full Text][Ascii Text in one file][added 1/27/99]
Plato: The Phaedrus [At this Site, formerly ERIS][Full Text][Ascii Text in one file][added 1/27/99]
Homer: The Iliad trans. Samuel Butler [At this Site, formerly ERIS][Full Text][Ascii Text in one file][added 1/27/99]
Homer: The Odyssey [At this Site, formerly ERIS][Full Text][Ascii Text in one file][added 1/27/99]
Herodotus: The Histories 440BCE [At this Site, formerly ERIS][Full Text][Ascii Text in one file][added 1/27/99]
The Tale of The Eloquent Peasant, c. 1800 BCE [At this Site][added 1/25/99]
The Offering of Uha, c. 2400 BCE [At this Site][added 1/25/99]
Male and Female Circumcision in Egypt.
Coffin Text: The Tale of Horus and the Pig, c. 1900 BCE [At this Site][added 1/25/99]
Egyptian Love Poetry, c. 2000 - 1100 BCE [At this Site][added 1/25/99]
The Ludlul Bêl Nimeqi, c. 1700 BCE [At this Site][added 1/25/99]
A Sumerian Job.
The Akkadêan Precepts, c. 2200 BCE [At this Site][added 1/25/99]
A Collection of Babylonian Prayers, c. 1600 BCE [At this Site][added 1/25/99]
Some Babylonian Proverbs from the Library of Ashurbanipal, c. 1600 BCE [At this Site][added 1/25/99]
The Story of King Vahahran & his Queen, c. 300 CE [At this Site]
Theocritus: Fifteenth Idyll, c. 250 BCE [At this Site][added 1/25/99]
Aesop (6th Century BCE): Fables [At this Site][added 1/17/99]
2ND 11th Brittanica: Delian League [At this Site][added 1/17/99]
2ND 11th Brittanica: History of Ancient Greece [At this Site][added 1/17/99]
2ND 11th Brittanica: Euripides [At this Site][added 1/17/99]
2ND 11th Brittanica: Pericles [At this Site][added 1/17/99]
2ND 11th Brittanica: Themistocles [At this Site][added 1/17/99]
2ND 11th Brittanica: Herodotus [At this Site][added 1/17/99]
2ND 11th Brittanica: Pericles [At this Site][added 1/17/99]
2ND 11th Brittanica: Sparta [At this Site][added 1/17/99]
2ND 11th Brittanica: Thucydides [At this Site][added 1/17/99]
2ND Edward Gibbon: The Idea of Roman Jurisprudence [At this Site][added 1/17/99 to Rome]
Cicero (105-43 BCE): On Friendship, or Laelius, full text, trans by W. Melmoth [At this Site][added 1/17/99 to Rome]
St. Vincent of Lerins: The "Vincentian Canon", 434 CE, [At this Site][added 1/17/99 to Rome]
Zeno of Elea: Paradoxes [At this Site][added 1/17/99]
Book of Genesis [At this Site][added 1/17/99]
Book of Exodus [At this Site][added 1/17/99]
Book of Job [At this Site][added 1/17/99]
Book of Amos [At this Site][added 1/17/99]
The Emperor Julian: Mispogon (or "Beard-Hater")[At this Site][added 1/17/99]
Aelius Spartianus: Life of Hadrian, (r. 117-138 CE.), complete [At this Site][added 1/17/99]
Tacitus: Life of Cnaeus Julius Agricola, c.98 CE, trans. J. Church and W. J. Brodribb. [At this Site][added 1/17/99]
Thucydides: History of the Peloponnesian War [These are MSWord files, in Greek with embedded fonts][At this Site][added 1/17/99]
- Book I
- Book II
- Book III
Juvenal and Persius: Satires: Introduction [At this Site][added 1/17/99]
- Juvenal: Satire 1 Latin | Satire 1 English | Satire 1 English/Latin
- Juvenal: Satire 2 Latin | Satire 2 English | Satire 2 English/Latin
- Juvenal: Satire 3 Latin | Satire 3 English | Satire 3 English/Latin
The Legend of Sargon of Akkadê, c. 2300 BCE [At this Site][added 1/17/99]
The Carthaginian Law of Sacrifices, c. 400 BCE [At this Site][added 1/17/99]

December 1998

Linear B [At Ancient Scripts][At this Site][added 12/7/98]
Image files of the linear B script deciphered in 1952 by Michael Ventris and John Chadwick.

November 1998

Pausanias (fl.c.160 CE): Description of Greece: Book I: Attica (Athens and Megara) [At this Site][added 11/29/98]
Pausanias (fl.c.160 CE): Description of Greece: Book II: Corinth [At this Site][added 11/29/98]
Aeschines (c.390-c.322 BCE): On the Embassy, full text [At this Site][added 11/29/98]
Practical Public Beneficence [At Kansas][added 11/28/98]
An inscription, including a photo, transcription, translation and brief commentary, of another typical witness to Roman euergetism.
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][added 11/28/98]
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][added 11/28/98]
Suetonius (c.69-after 122 CE): Life of Augustus, complete, Worthington translation, [At this Site][added 11/28/98]
Suetonius (c.69-after 122 CE): Life of Claudius, complete, Worthington translation, [At Princeton][added 11/28/98]
Petronius Arbiter (c.27-66 CE): The Satyricon, c. 61. CE chaps 1-17 (separate files), or in Html (one file) or in plain text (one file), translated by Alfred R. Allinson, 1930. [At K Collins][added 11/28/98]
Juvenal (c. 55/60-127 CE): Satires 1,2,3,8,9, trans. N. Rudd, [At Princeton][added 11/28/98]
Suetonius (c.69-after 122 CE): Life of Nero, 32-34. in Latin [At Gabli][added 11/28/98]
Julius Caesar (100-44 BCE): On the Germans, 53 BCE [At Princeton][added 11/28/98]
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][added 11/28/98]
Notitia Dignitatum (Register of Dignitaries), c. 400 [At this Site][added 11/27/98]
A list of all the officials in the Roman Empire, East and West, circa. 400 CE. [At this Site]
Tales of Ancient Egypt: The Shipwrecked Sailor, c. 2200 BCE [At this Site][added 11/22/98]
Princess Ahura: The Magic Book, c. 1100 BCE [At this Site][added 11/22/98]
On the brother-sister marriage of the two children of the King Merneptah.
Pen-ta-ur: The Victory of Ramses II Over the Khita, 1326 BCE [At this Site][added 11/22/98]
Sir Monier Monier-Williams: The Towers of Silence, 1870 [At this Site][added 11/21/98]
The Parsees (modern Zoroastrians) in Bombay in the 19th century..
Callimachus (c.305-c.240 BCE): Hymn III: To Artemis [At Montclair][added 11/21/98]
Letter Home of a Roman "University" Student, 44 BCE [At this Site][added 11/17/98]
From Cicero's son.
The Need for Source Criticism: A Letter from Alexander to Aristotle? [At this Site][added 11/9/98]
Parmenides of Elea (c.515-after 450 BCE): On Nature (Peri Physis) [At A Randell][added 11/1/98]
(ps.-?) Plato: Seventh Letter: To the Relatives and Friends of Dion, [At UPenn][added 11/1/98]
The Karnamik-I-Ardashir, or The Records of Ardashir, [At this Site][added 11/1/98]
In the records of Ardashir, Founder of the Sassanian Kingdom

October 1998

The Yatkar-I-Zariran, or Memoirs of Zarir [At this Site][added 10/14/98]
Egyptian Economic and Legal Documents [At Diotima][added 10/14/98]
2ND Henry Sumner Maine: Ancient Law [At McMaster][added 10/14/98 to Legal Sources]
2ND The Timetable of World Legal History [At WLIA][added 10/14/98 to Legal Sources]

September 1998

Julius Caesar (100-44 BCE): The Germans, c. 51 BCE [At Medieval Sourcebook][added 9/14/98]
Tacitus (b.56/57-after 117 CE): Germania, trans. Thomas Gordon, full text, Also available in Latin. [At Medieval Sourcebook][added 9/14/98]
Tacitus (b.56/57-after 117 CE): Germania, shorter excerpts. [At Medieval Sourcebook][added 9/14/98]

August 1998

Xenophon: When Cyrus the Great was a Boy [At this Site][added 8/28/98]
Homer: The Odyssey [At this Site][added 8/28/98]
Complete text [in one 769k HTML file] of the translation by Samuel Henry Butcher (1850-1910) and Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
2ND George Long: Philosophy Of Antoninus [At this Site][added 8/20/98]
A discussion of Stoic philosophy and Marcus Aurelius.
Pliny the Younger (61/62-113 CE): Selected Letters, c 100 CE (Harvard Classics series)[At this Site][added 8/20/98]
Selected letters: General (110 letters), and Correspondence with the Emperor Trajan (122 letters).
Cicero (105-43 BCE): Old Age, c. 65 BCE (Harvard Classics series)[At this Site][added 8/20/98]
Cicero (105-43 BCE): Selected Letters. 36 selected letters (Harvard Classics series). [At this Site][added 8/16/98]
Cicero (105-43 BCE): On Friendship, or Laelius, [At this Site][added 8/16/98]
Tertullian: On Pagan Learning, c. 220 CE [At this Site][added 8/15/98]
On the distinction between "Athens" and "Jerusalem".
Accounts of Personal Religion, c. 430 BCE - 300 CE [At this Site][added 8/15/98]
Accounts of Hellenic Religious Beliefs, c. 800 BCE - 110 CE [At this Site][added 8/15/98]
Roman Religiones Licitae and Illicitae, c. 204 BCE - 112 CE [At this Site][added 8/15/98]
Accounts of Roman State Religion, c. 200 BCE- 250CE [At this Site][added 8/15/98]
Petition to the Emperor Philip: On Official & Military Extortion, 246 CE [At this Site][added 8/15/98]
(Pseudo)-Plutarch: Des Opinions des philosophes [At this Site][added 8/10/98]
Full text of a French translation.
Marcus Aurelius Antonius (b.121-r.161-d.180 CE): Meditations, 167 CE [At this Site][added 8/10/98]
Greek Reports of India & Aryavarta [At this Site][added 8/10/98]
From Herodotus.
Herodotus (c.490-c.425 BCE): Queen Tomyris of the Massagetai and the Defeat of the Persians under Cyrus [At this Site][added 8/10/98]
Herodotus (c.490-c.425 BCE): The Persians Reject Democracy/Darius' State [At this Site][added 8/10/98]
Greek Reports of Babylonia, Chaldea, and Assyria [At this Site][added 8/10/98]
From Herodotus.
Herodotus (c.490-c.425 BCE): The Carthaginian Attack on Sicily, 480 BCE [At this Site][added 8/10/98, Greece and Rome pages]
Herodotus (c.490-c.425 BCE): Artemisia at Salamis, 480 BCE [At this Site][added 8/10/98]
Artemesia was ruler of Halicarnassus, and took part in the Persian attack on Athens.
Xenophon (c.428-c.354 BCE): On Men and Women, from Oikonomikos, c. 370 BCE [At this Site][added 8/7/98]
Reports of the Etruscans, c. 430 BCE - 10 CE [At this Site][added 8/6/98]
From Herodotus and Livy.
Reports of Minos and Knossos [At this Site][added 8/6/98]
From Plutrach and Herodotus.
Herodotus (c.490-c.425 BCE): On the Kings of Sparta, c. 430 BC [At this Site][added 8/6/98]
Xenophon (c.428-c.354 BCE): The Polity of the Spartans, c. 375 BCE [At this Site][added 8/6/98]
Xenophon (c.428-c.354 BCE): The Spartan War Machine, c. 375 BCE [At this Site][added 8/6/98]
Aristotle (384-323 BCE): On a Good Wife, from Oikonomikos, c. 330 BCE [At this Site][added 8/6/98]
Documents on Greek Slavery, c. 750 - 330 BCE [At this Site][added 8/6/98]
from Hesiod, Strabo, Antiphon, Demosthenes, and Aristotle.
Documents of The Hoplite Revolution, c. 750 - 650 BCE [At this Site][added 8/6/98]
from Homer, The Drinking Song of Hybrias, and Tyrtaeus.
Documents on The Hellenic Drama, c. 560 - 330 BCE [At this Site][added 8/6/98]
The historical origins, from Plutarch, Demosthenes, and Aristotle.
Reports of The Origins of Athens, c. 430 BCE - 110 CE [At this Site][added 8/6/98]
from Herodotus, Thucydides, Plutarch, and Aristotle.
The Polity of the Athenians, c. 424 BCE [At this Site][added 8/6/98]
Sometimes known as the "Old Oligarch".
Ancient History Sourcebook: Ancient Legal Sources [added 8/4/98]
Herodotus (c.490-c.425 BCE): Hellenes & Phoenicians, c. 430 BCE [At this Site][added 8/4/98]
Documents of the Rise of Hellenic Tyranny, c. 650-550 BCE [At this Site][added 8/4/98]
From Herodotus Plutarch, about Corinth and Athens.
Accounts of the Hellenic Games, c. 470 BCE-175 CE [At this Site][added 8/4/98]
From Pindar: Olympian Odes, c. 470 BCE, Thucydides: The History of the Peloponnesian War, c. 404 BCE, Xenophon: Hellenica, c. 370 BCE, Strabo: Geographia, c. 20 CE, Pausanias: Description of Greece, c. 175 CE
Documents of the Founding of Cyrene, c. 630 BCE [At this Site][added 8/4/98]
From Herodotus and Strabo.
Accounts of Persian "Despotism" and Law, c. 430-300 BCE [At this Site][added 8/4/98]
From Herodotus and the Bible.
Herodotus (c.490-c.425 BCE): On Libya, from The Histories, c. 430 BCE [At this Site][added 8/3/98]
Thucydides (c.460/455-c.399 BCE): On The Early History of the Hellenes (written c. 395 BCE) [At this Site][added 8/3/98]
The Law Code of Gortyn (Crete), c. 450 BCE [At this Site][added 8/2/98]
Kurash (Cyrus) the Great: The Decree of Return for the Jews, 539 BCE [At this Site][added 8/2/98]
From Persian and Biblical sources.
Accounts of the Campaign of Sennacherib, 701 BCE [At this Site][added 8/2/98]
Proverbs from Ki-en-gir (Sumer), c. 2000 BCE [At this Site][added 8/2/98]

July 1998

The Code of the Assyrians, c. 1075 BCE [At this Site][added 7/26/98]
Excerpts on sex and gender matters.
The Code of the Nesilim, c. 1650-1500 BCE [At this Site][added 7/26/98]
Excerpts on sex and gender matters.
The Advice of an Akkadian Father to His Son, c. 2200 BCE [At this Site][added 7/26/98]
2ND Two Approaches to an Egyptian Pantheon [At UNT][added 7/22/98]
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][added 7/13/98]
Polybius (c.200-after 118 BCE): The Character of Hannibal, [At this Site][added 7/12/98]
Polybius (c.200-after 118 BCE): The Roman Maniple vs. The Macedonian Phalanx, The Histories, Book XVIII, Chapters 28-32 [At this Site][added 7/12/98]
Polybius (c.200-after 118 BCE): The Third Punic War, 149-146 BCE, The Histories, Book XXXVI-XXXIX [At this Site][added 7/12/98]
Procopius of Caesarea (c.500-after 562 CE): Gaiseric & The Vandal Conquest of North Africa, 406 - 477 CE, History of the Wars [written c. 550 CE], Book III, chapters iii-vii [At this Site][added 7/12/98]
Procopius of Caesarea (c.500-after 562 CE): Alaric's Sack of Rome, 410 CE, History of the Wars [written c. 550 CE], III.ii.7-39 [At this Site][added 7/12/98]
Accounts of Ancient Mauretania, c. 430 BCE- 550 CE [At this Site][added 7/11/98]
From Herodotus, Strabo, and Procopius of Caesarea
Accounts of Meröe, Kush, and Axum, Accounts of Meroe, Kush, and Axum, c. 430 BCE - 550 CE, [At this Site][added 7/11/98]
From Herodotus, Strabo, Dio Cassius, the King of Axum, and and Procopius of Caesarea.
Xenophon (c.428-c.354 BCE): Anabasis, or March Up Country or Persia Expedition, full text [At this Site][added 7/7/98]
The story of a Greek army of mercenaries and their march into the Persian Empire.
Ammianus Marcellinus (330-395 CE): The Battle of Adrianopole, 378 CE [At this Site][added 7/7/98]
Polybius: The Battle of Cannae, 216 BCE, History, Book III.107 [At this Site][added 7/7/98]
2ND Ralph W. Mathisen: Diocletian (284-305 CE) [At DIR/ORB][added 7/5/98]
2ND Michael DiMaio, Jr.: Constantine I (ca.272 or 273-336 CE) [At DIR/ORB][added 7/5/98]
The Ritual Cannabilism Charge Against Christians, excerpts from Mincius Felix and Hippolytus, [At this Site][added 7/4/98]
The Defeat of Attila.Ammianus Marcellinus (330-395 CE): The Battle of Adrianople 378 CE. [At Hillsdale] [added 7/2/98]
Edward Gibbon: On the Fall of the Roman Empire [At this Site][added 7/2/98]
Seneca (b.4 BC/1 CE-d. 65 CE): Epistles 7: The Gladiatorial Games [At this Site][added 7/2/98]
Petronius Arbiter (c.27-66 CE): The Banquet of Trimalchio from the Satyricon [At this Site][added 7/2/98]
Macrobius: Saturnalia Convivia, III.13: The Bill of Fare of a Great Roman Banquet, 63 BCE [At this Site][added 7/2/98]
Statius (45-96 CE): Silvae, II.2 A Roman Seaside Villa [At this Site][added 7/2/98]
Pliny the Elder (23/4-79 CE): Natural History, XXXIII.6: Luxury in the Use of Rings [At this Site][added 7/2/98]
Pliny the Elder (23/4-79 CE): Natural History, XXXIII.47: A Wealthy Roman's Fortune [At this Site][added 7/2/98]
Juvenal (c.55-c.130 CE): Satire 6, long excerpts, [At this Site][added 7/2/98]
Inscriptions from Pompeii [At this Site][added 7/2/98]
Ammianus Marcellinus (c.330-395 CE): History, XIV.16: The Luxury of the Rich in Rome, c. 400 CE [At this Site][added 7/2/98]
Pliny the Younger (61/62-113 CE): Letters, III.1: The Life of a Refined Roman Gentleman [At this Site][added 7/2/98]
Pliny the Younger (61/62-113 CE): Letters, II.14: The Decline of Oratory [At this Site][added 7/2/98]
Martial (40-103/4 CE): Immigrants in Rome, Epigrams, IX.3 [At this Site][added 7/2/98]
The Manner of Roman Charity [At this Site][added 7/2/98]
Strabo (64/3 BCE- c.21 CE): The Grandeur of Rome, c. 20 CE
from Geography, 5.3i [At this Site][added 7/2/98]
Roman Educational Practices, [At this Site][added 7/2/98]
Texts from Horace: Satires, I.6.xi.70-90; Pliny the Younger: Letters, IV.13; and Martial: Epigrams, X.62
Jordanes (fl.c.550 CE): History of the Goths Chap. 38: The Battle of Chalôns, 451 CE [At this Site] [added 7/2/98]
Jordanes (fl.c.550 CE): History of the Goths Chap. 20: The Devastation of the Goths in the Reign of Gallienus, 260-268 CE [At this Site][added 7/2/98]
Rutilius Numantius: On His Return, I.xi.47, The Greatness of Rome in the Days of Ruin, 413CE [At this Site][added 7/2/98]
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][added 7/2/98]
Herodian of Syria (3rd Cent. CE): History of the Emperors, Boo II.6ff: "How Didius Julianus Bought the Empire at Auction", 193 CE [At this Site][added 7/2/98]
Eutropius (4th Cent CE): The Reign of Marcus Aurelius, (b.121- r.161-d.180) CE, from Compendium of Roman History, 8:.12-14 [At this Site][added 7/2/98]
Aelius Spartianus: Life of Hadrian, (r. 117-138 CE.) [At this Site][added 7/2/98]
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][added 7/2/98]
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][added 7/2/98]
Vopiscus: Aurelian's Conquest of Palmyra, 273 CE [At this Site][added 7/2/98]
Deeds of Zenophilus: How the Romans Tried to Seize Christian Books, c. 395 CE [At this Site][added 7/2/98]
Sozomen (d. c. 450 CE): Constantine Founds Constantinople, 324 CE, from Ecclesiastical History 2.3 [At this Site][added 7/2/98]
Theodoret (c.393-466 CE): St. Ambrose Humiliates Theodosius the Great, Ecclesiastical History, V.17-18, [At this Site][added 7/2/98]
Dio Cassius (c.155-235 CE): Nero and the Great Fire of Rome, 64 CE, from Roman History, 62.16-18 [At this Site][added 7/2/98]
Claudius: A Discourse in the Senate, c. 48 CE [At this Site][added 7/2/98]
Augustus (63 BCE-14 CE): Res Gestae Divi Augusti, c. 14 CE, long excerpts, in English. [At this Site][added 7/2/98]
Appian: The Funeral of Julius Caesar, 44 BCE [At this Site][added 7/2/98]
An ancient account of Mark Anthony's funeral oration.
Ancient Accounts of Arabia:
Accounts from Herodotus: The Histories, c. 430 BCE, Strabo: Geography, c. 22 CE, Dio Cassius: History of Rome, c. 220 CE, Ammianus Marcellinus: The Roman History, c. 380 CE [At this Site][added 7/2/98]
Augustan Encomiums, c. 31 BCE - 14 CE
Horace: Secular hymn, and Vergil: Aeneid, VI.ii.789-800, 847-853. [At This Site] [added 7/2/98]
Egypt under the Roman Empire, excerpts from Strabo, Geography and Oxyrhynchus papyri. [At This Site] [added 7/2/98]

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