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Greece
45,000 BC to 440 BC: Heracles : Argonauts : Theban cycle : Trojan cycle : Homer : Hesiod : 'Homeric' hymns : Sappho : Aesop : [map] : Aeschylus : Pindar : Herodotus
440 BC to 322 BC: Sophocles : Euripides : Thucydides : Aristophanes : Xenophon
427 BC to 322 BC: Plato and Aristotle
322 BC to present: Plutarch
Rome
200,000 BC to 44 BC: Plautus : Ennius : Cato : Terence : Varro : Julius Caesar
106 BC to 43 BC: Cicero
44 BC to 17 AD: #Nepos #Lucretius #Sallust #Catullus #Vitruvius #Virgil #Horace #Augustus #Livy #Priapea #Tibullus #Sulpicia #Seneca the Elder #Propertius #Ovid
19 BC to present: Velleius : Phaedrus : Valerius Maximus : Seneca the Younger : Petronius : Pliny the Elder : Silius Italicus : Frontinus : Persius : Lucan : Quintilian : Josephus : Martial : Valerius Flaccus : Statius : Rufus : Tacitus : Pliny the Younger : Suetonius : Juvenal : Marcus Aurelius : Apuleius : Gellius : Florus : Cassius Dio : Justin : Historia Augusta : Ammianus : Aurelius Victor : Eutropius : Augustine : Claudian
friend of Cicero and Atticus; Catullus dedicated his poems to Nepos [ded]
bios: 1914, Hannibal-site, [pic] [links]
criticism: Johnston
lost works: Chronica (3-vol universal history)
Lives of Famous Men (16 books, 15 lost)
- Aristeides (Athenian c500BC)
"How great was his integrity, there is no more certain proof, than that, though he had been at the head of such important affairs, he died in such poverty that he scarcely left money to defray the charges of his funeral."
English: multi
- Lysander (Spartan c400BC)
Latin: Omnip w/notes
- Epaminondas (Theban c370BC)
English: extracts
- Datames (Carian?)
English: multi
- Eumenes (Pergamum c250BC)
English: multi
- Hannibal (Carthaginian c220BC)
English: Iowa
- Atticus (Roman c60BC)
"Atticus' sister was married to Quintus Tullius Cicero; the marriage was arranged by Marcus Cicero, with whom Atticus lived on very close terms ever since they were students together, indeed much more intimately than with Quintus, which shows that similarity of character carries more weight in friendship than ties of blood."
English: TPG
criticism: Beck
mentioned by Cicero in a letter shortly after L's death [Perseus]
De rerum natura (6 books, 50BC)
detailed account of physics of Epicurus (d271BC in Athens), learned from E's lost 37-vol work 'On Nature' [archeo]
"In the time when people felt the weight of religion, wallowing upon the ground and-- a ghastly spectacle-- heaven scowled down upon them and showed no mercy, a Greek man was the first to raise his eyes, daring to make a stand against it."
Latin: LatLib, Archeo, bAug, prologue
English: MIT, Vt-txt, abridged
Commentaries: humanist
42 BC: Caesar's assassins defeated at Philippi by Octavian and Marc Antony
86-35 BC: C. Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
bios: short, gardens, [pic]
Commentaries: extracts
Invectiva in Ciceronem (54)
The Conspiracy of Catiline (Bellum Catilinae, c40?)
"Matters having proceeded thus far, and a night being appointed for the departure of the deputies, Cicero, being by them made acquainted with everything, directed the praetors, Lucius Valerius Flaccus, and Caius Pomptinus, to arrest the retinue of the Allobroges, by lying in wait for them on the Milvian Bridge..."
Latin: LatLib, Rutgers, Archeo
English: Richmond, USC, interlinear
Commentaries: Sauertieg, extract, UAH, notes, [ms pic]
Jugurthine War (Bellum Iugurthinum, c40?))
north Africa, 111-105BC
"I propose to write of the war which the people of Rome waged with Jugurtha, king of the Numidians: first, because it was long, sanguinary and of varying fortune; and secondly, because then for the first time resistance was offered to the insolence of the nobles-- the beginning of a struggle which threw everything, human and divine, into confusion, and rose to such a pitch of frenzy that civil discord ended in war and the devastation of Italy."
Latin: LatLib, Archeo
Translations: Isidore
Commentaries: extract
Historiae (fragments)
78-67BC
"But apart from the expectation I hold of your support, which has dispelled my fear, I have decided that for a brave man defeat in a struggle for liberty is better than never to have struggled at all."
Latin: LatLib, Archeo
Translations: excerpt
Commentaries: arcane, tidbits
c84-c54 BC: Gaius Valerius Catullus
bios: info, friends, [pic] links
Carmina
"Give me a thousand kisses, and then a hundred, then another thousand, then a second hundred, then another thousand without resting, then a hundred. Then, when we have made many thousands, we will confuse the count lest we know the numbering, so that no one can cast an evil eye on us through knowing the number of our kisses."
Latin etext: Perseus, LatLib, Archeo, Magreyn, bAug
Translations: Pers-Smithers, Pers-Burton, selections
Commentaries: Harris, Beck
37 BC: Antony marries Cleopatra [Shakespeare]
On Architecture (De Architectura, 10 books)
"Let him be educated, skilful with the pencil, instructed in geometry, know much history, have followed the philosophers with attention, understand music, have some knowledge of medicine, know the opinions of the jurists, and be acquainted with astronomy and the theory of the heavens."
Latin etext: Perseus, LatLib, bAug, Harris, Curtius-cached
Translations: Perseus
Commentaries:
31 BC: Octavian defeats Antony at Actium
70-19 BC: Publius Vergilius Maro (Virgil or Vergil)
bios: Virgil.org, SecretLife, [pix]
criticism: Beck
Labores iuveniles (c45)
Latin: bAug
Eclogues (Eclogae vel bucolica, 10 parts, c40)
"Exiled from home am I; while, Tityrus, you Sit careless in the shade, and, at your call, 'Fair Amaryllis' bid the woods resound."
Latin etext: Perseus, LatLib, bAug, Sacred, zip
Translations: Perseus, MIT, Sacred
Commentaries:
Georgics (Georgicon, Georgica; 4 sections, 30)
"Press deep your plough behind the groaning ox, And teach the furrow-burnished share to shine."
Latin etext: Perseus, LatLib, bAug, Sacred
Translations: Perseus, MIT, Sacred
Commentaries:
Aeneid (Aeneis, 12 books, 19)
"O Muse! the causes and the crimes relate; What goddess was provok'd, and whence her hate; For what offense the Queen of Heav'n began To persecute so brave, so just a man..."
Latin etext: Perseus, LatLib, bAug
Translations: Pers-Williams, Pers-Dryden, MIT, Bartleby, Book4, Italian
Commentaries: background, Book4, 1895
65-8 BC: Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)
Epodes (Epodon Liber, 17 epodes, c35)
Latin: LatLib, Rutgers, bAug
Translations: French
Commentaries: OCC, Harris
Satires (Sermones, Satyrarum libri, c30)
"But he who desires only so much as is sufficient, neither drinks water fouled with the mud, nor loses his life in the waves."
Latin etext: LatLib, Perseus
Translations: Perseus
Commentaries: UAH, Harris
Odes (Carmina, 23)
"While we converse, envious time will have vanished: harvest Today, placing the least credence on what's to come."
Latin etext: LatLib, Perseus
Translations: Perseus, Diotima
Commentaries: Harris, UAH
Letters (Epistles, 20)
Latin: LatLib, bAug
Commentaries: UAH
Carmen Saeculare (17)
Latin: LatLib, Rutgers
Commentaries: UAH
The Art of Poetry (De Arte Poetica, c10BC)
"But oft our greatest errors take their rise From our best views. I strive to be concise; I prove obscure. My strength, my fire decays, When in pursuit of elegance and ease..."
Latin etext: Perseus, LatLib
Translations: Perseus, Peitho
Commentaries: Hendry, UAH, synopsis
bios: Suetonius [ditto], Nicolaus, [links]
Achievements of the Divine Augustus (14AD)
"I often waged war, civil and foreign, on the earth and sea, in the whole wide world, and as victor I spared all the citizens who sought pardon. As for foreign nations, those which I was able to safely forgive, I preferred to preserve than to destroy."
27 BC: first settlement of Augustus [info]
History of Rome (Ab Urbe Condita Libri)
"There is no question that the Brutus who won such glory through the expulsion of Superbus would have inflicted the gravest injury on the State had he wrested the sovereignty from any of the former kings, through desire of a liberty for which the people were not ripe."
Latin etexts: Perseus, LatLib, bAug 1-10
Translations: Perseus, UVa-ToC
Commentaries:
17 BC: Ludi Saeculares [Latin]
"Why is my privatest part unclothed, you ask? Consider this: no god conceals his own weapon."
Latin: [LatLib] [Latin] [zip]
Translations: Sacred, selections
Commentaries: Stream
letter from Horace: [English]
Elegies (3 books, 26BC)
"Whoever's possessed by love goes safe and holy wherever he will: he should fear no ambush at all."
Latin: LatLib, bAug
Translations: Kline
Commentaries: Dutch
by Lygdamus: [bAug]
" I wouldn't want to order any of my letters sealed so that none can read them before my lover does. I delight in my sin: I loathe composing my looks for public opinion: let them declare worth meets worth."
Latin: LatLib, bAug, Winck
Translations: Kline
Conquestio
Latin: Hendry
first century authors: [bAug]
c55 BC- c40 AD: Seneca the Elder
Controversiae (Debates, 10 books)
Latin: LatLib, Forum
English:
Commentaries: topics
Suasoriae (Speeches of Advice)
Latin: LatLib
Fragments: LatLib
Elegies (29)
"You who do that trick with the moon, who perform rites on magic altars, change my mistress' mind, make her face more pale than my own!"
Latin etext: Perseus, LatLib, Rutgers, Venez, zip
Translations: Perseus, selections, poem
Commentaries: Perseus, Hendry, Harris, Stauffer
43 BC-17 AD: Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid)
bios: Perseus, FAQ, travel, [pic] [bibliog]
lost works: Medea, Halieutica? [FAQ]
Amours (Amores, 3 books, 20BC)
"If thou wilt reign o'er all, and ev'ry where, The god of music for his harp may fear. Thus when with soaring wings I seek renown, Thou pluck'st my pinions, and I flutter down."
Latin etext: Perseus, LatLib
Translations: Pers-Marlowe, Pers-various, selections
Commentaries: FAQ
Heroides (Epistulae Heroidum, Letters of Heroines)
"Dear Ulysses, your Penelope sends this epistle to you, so slow in your return home; write not any answer, but come yourself..."
Latin etext: Perseus, LatLib, bAug
Translations: Perseus
Commentaries: FAQ
The Art of Love (Ars Amatoria, 3 books, 1BC)
"Cupid indeed is obstinate and wild, A stubborn god; but yet the god's a child: Easy to govern in his tender age, Like fierce Achilles in his pupilage..."
Latin etext: Perseus, LatLib
Translations: Perseus
Commentaries: FAQ
The Art of Beauty (Medicamina faciei femineae, Women's Facial Cosmetics)
"Art improves nature; 'twas by art we found The vast advantages of furrow'd ground: The soil manur'd, a fruitful harvest bore, Where thorns and hungry brambles grew before."
Latin etext: Perseus, bAug
Translations: Perseus
Commentaries: FAQ
The Remedy for Love (Remedia Amoris, 1AD)
"Let him who loves, where love success may find, Spread all his sails before the prosp'rous wind; But let poor youths who female scorn endure, And hopeless burn, repair to me for cure"
Latin etext: Perseus, LatLib
Translations: Perseus
Commentaries: FAQ
Metamorphoses (14 books, 2AD)
"The force of fire ascended first on high, And took its dwelling in the vaulted sky: Then air succeeds, in lightness next to fire; Whose atoms from unactive earth retire."
Latin etext: Perseus, LatLib, bAug, UVa, Sacred
Translations: Pers-More, Pers-Golding, MIT, Sacred, UVa, Kline, selections
Commentaries: Brown, FAQ, Onomasticon, images
Fasti (Festivals, 2AD)
study of the Roman calendar
"See the hag who's sitting there among the girls serving the mute goddess (but not so mute herself): three fingers push three lumps of incense 'neath the door down where the tiny mouse has made its secret path."
Latin: LatLib
Translations: extract, quotes
Commentaries: outline, outline
8AD: banished from Rome to Black Sea by Augustus [FAQ]
Tristia (Sadness, 9AD)
Latin: LatLib
Ibis (11AD)
a curse directed at an unnamed enemy
"Up until now, when I have already seen five decades My muse was always unarmed You won't find one verse of Naso's, out of so many thousands That you could call blood-stained"
Latin: LatLib
Translations: quote
Epistulae ex Ponto (Letters from the Black Sea, 4 books, 13AD)
Latin: LatLib
39 BC- 14 AD: Julia, daughter of Augustus [bio]
histories: timelines, Gibbon, timeline, messy
essays: AHB
Latin: pronunciation, grammar basics, vocab, obscenities
occ = MC Howatson's Oxford Companion to Classical Literature
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