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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
Latin: LatLib
Commentaries: essay
29 AD: execution of Sejanus [Ben Jonson]
c30 AD: Jesus crucified in Jerusalem [FAQ]
Latin: LatLib, Magreyn1, Magreyn2
Latin: LatLib
37-41 AD: Caligula [bk rev]
10 BC- 54 AD: Tiberius Claudius Nero Germanicus (Claudius)
bios: bk rev, Suetonius, Levick, Scullard, Garzetti, Momigliano, ancients, handicaps, temperament, bloodlust, arrogance, gluttony, cruelty, weakness, cult,coinage
lost works: histories of Etruria and Carthage,
Graves novels
BBC miniseries: website, summaries, evidence, sources, analyses
c45 AD: Roman conquest of Britain [Shakespeare]
c4 BC- c65 AD: Seneca the Younger
"...they had collected the books, not for the sake of learning, but to make a show, just as many who lack even a child's knowledge of letters use books, not as the tools of learning, but as decorations for the dining-room."
Latin: LatLib
c60 AD: historical novels 'Ben-Hur' [ebook] and 'Quo Vadis' [ebook]
criticism: Horatian
Latin: fragments
Satyricon (61)
"In the middle of this a Slave brought in a silver skeleton, put together in such a way that its joints and backbone could be pulled out and twisted in all directions. After he had flung it about on the table once or twice, its flexible joints falling into various postures, Trimalchio recited: 'O woe, Woe, man is only a dot. Hell drags us off and that is the lot; So let us live a little space, At least while we can feed our face.'"
Latin: LatLib
English: Collins
Trimalchio's dinner party: Fordham, Richmond
Latin: LatLib
Natural History
Latin: Curtius/cached
English: [extract]
Latin: LatLib
Latin: LatLib
De Aquis
32-69 AD: Otho [Plutarch]
Latin: LatLib
c60 AD: Columella [LatLib]
c70 AD: Marcus Didius Falco, poet and informer [mysteries]
79 AD: eruption of Vesuvius [Bulwer-Lytton]
Latin: LatLib
Translations:
Commentaries: topics
wrote in Greek
"But as the high priest was bringing out the gold, he lighted upon the holy books of Moses that were laid up in the temple; and when he had brought them out, he gave them to Shaphan the scribe, who, when he had read them, came to the king, and informed him that all was finished which he had ordered to be done."
Latin: LatLib
Latin: LatLib
no-date: Cornutus
Latin: LatLib
Historiae Alexandri Magni
2nd century authors [bAug]
no-date: Gaius
Latin: LatLib
criticism: pomo
Agricola
"I remember that he used to tell us how in his early youth he would have imbibed a keener love of philosophy than became a Roman and a senator, had not his mother's good sense checked his excited and ardent spirit."
De Germania
"All have fierce blue eyes, red hair, huge frames, fit only for a sudden exertion. They are less able to bear laborious work. Heat and thirst they cannot in the least endure; to cold and hunger their climate and their soil inure them."
Latin: Harris, Fordham
English: Fordham, Fordham2
Histories (106AD, 5 books, covering 69-70AD)
"I am entering on the history of a period rich in disasters, frightful in its wars, torn by civil strife, and even in peace full of horrors. Four emperors perished by the sword. There were three civil wars..."
Annals (116AD, 16 books, covering 14-66AD with gaps)
"But the successes and reverses of the old Roman people have been recorded by famous historians; and fine intellects were not wanting to describe the times of Augustus, till growing sycophancy scared them away."
English: MIT, OurCiv, Fordham, MU, selections
Commentaries: essay
Latin: LatLib
Translations: Bartleby
Latin: LatLib
The Twelve Caesars
Commentaries: Vidal
Latin: Hendry
138-192: Gibbon opens with the Antonines [Gibbon 1] 2 3
Gaius: [LatLib]
c160 AD: setting of Pater's novel 'Marius the Epicurean' [PGut 1] part2
Meditations (12 books, 167AD)
"From Diognetus, I learned not to busy myself about trifling things, and not to give credit to what was said by miracle-workers and jugglers about incantations and the driving away of daemons and such things; and not to breed quails for fighting, nor to give myself up passionately to such things; and to endure freedom of speech; and to have become intimate with philosophy..."
Latin: LatLib
Cupid et Psyche
Latin: Carrie
The Defense
English: MIT
Latin: LatLib
Latin-English: [extract]
Latin: LatLib
180-192: Commodus [Gibbon]
160-240 AD: Tertullian
193-211: Severus [Gibbon]
Latin: LatLib
Commentaries: essay, Herodotus
3rd century authors [bAug]
212 AD: execution of Papinian
212-222: [Gibbon]
223 AD: death of Ulpian
c250 AD: Censorinus' De Die natali Curtius-cached
270-275: Aurelian [Gibbon]
Latin: LatLib
284-305: Diocletian [Gibbon]
c290 AD: Cardinal Newman's novel 'Callista' set in Carthage [ebook]
4th century authors bAug
285-337: Constantine [Gibbon] 2 3
312: conversion of Constantine [debate]
310-393: Ausonius [LatLib] [Latin] ditto
330-395 AD: Ammianus Marcellinus
c339-397 AD: Ambrose
c348-420: Jerome
(Gore Vidal wrote a novel about Julian: Amazon)
Latin: LatLib, Adams
Translations: Harvard
c390? Theodosian Code [Latin]
Auxentius: [extract]
5th century authors [bAug]
c400: Avianus' Fables [Latin] [LatLib]
barbarian invasions [Kingsley]
On dialectic: [Latin] [English] "A word is the sign of some thing which can be understood by the hearer when pronounced by the speaker."
Confessions
English: Bartleby
c375-c410 AD: Claudius Claudianus (Claudian)
c400-480: Salvian
c420: Flavianus [essay]
c450: Macrobius' Saturnalia Curtius-cached
c450 AD: Priscus on Attila [extract]
455 AD: online historical novel by CB Rykken, 'Highroad to Carthage' [etext]
c480-524: Boethius
c490-583: Cassiodorus
c500: Liberius the Patrician [essay]
6th century authors [bAug]
c550: Justinian [Latin]
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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