Portal:Ancient Rome

Primary works

History

• Commentaries on the Civil War, c. 40 BCE by Julius Caesar, 1869 translation by William Alexander McDevitte and W. S. Bohn
• Res Gestae Divi Augusti, or The Achievements of the Deified Augustus, 14 A.D. by Augustus Caesar, translated by Wikisource
• From the Founding of the City, c. 14 A.D. by Livy
• Roman History by Appian of Alexandria, c. 150 A.D.
• History of the Empire From the Death of Marcus, 180-238 A.D. by Herodian
• Epitome of Roman History, circa. 200 A.D. by Florus
• Roman History, c. 200 A.D. by Cassius Dio
• The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1776 by Edward Gibbon
• The History of Rome, 1882 by Theodor Mommsen
• Pagan and Christian Rome, 1892 by Rodolfo Lanciani
• Cicero And The Fall Of The Roman Republic, 1894 by James Leigh Strachan-Davidson
• The Law of Civilization and Decay by Brooks Adams, 1896
• Tacitus and Other Roman Studies, 1906 by Gaston Boissier, translated by William G. Hutchison
• Characters and Events of Roman History, 1909 by Guglielmo Ferrero, translated by Frances Lance Ferrero
• The Influence of Wealth in Imperial Rome, 1910 by William Stearns Davis
• The Amazing Emperor Heliogabalus, 1911 by John Stuart Hay
• The Women of the Caesars, 1911 by Guglielmo Ferrero, translated by Christian Frederick Gauss
• Roman Imperialism, 1914 by Tenney Frank
• The Ruin of the Ancient Civilization and the Triumph of Christianity, 1921 by Guglielmo Ferrero, translated by Marian Cecilia Brodrick Whitehead

• The African War (Julius Caesar)
• The Alexandrian Wars (Julius Caesar)
• Commentaries on the Gallic War (Julius Caesar, 51 B.C.)
• The Spanish War (Julius Caesar)
• Historical Library (Diodorus Siculus)
• Histories (Tacitus)
• The Annals (Tacitus)
• The Antiquities of the Jews (Josephus)
• The War of the Jews (Josephus)
• Works of Sallust
• The Later Roman Empire by Ammianus Marcellinus
• Abridgement of Roman History by Eutropius

Biography

• Agricola
• The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans (Plutarch)
• Lives of Eminent Grammarians by Suetonius
• Lives of the Eminent Commanders by Cornelius Nepos
• The Confessions of Saint Augustine by Augustine of Hippo
• Augustan History by the Scriptores Historiae Augustae
• Res Gestae autobiographical sketch by Augustus Caesar, 14 A.D.

Theology and Religion

• The City of God by Augustine of Hippo
• On Christian Doctrine by Augustine of Hippo
• History of the Arians by Athanasius
• Ecclesiastical History by Eusebius of Caesarea
• On the Soul and the Resurrection by Gregory of Nyssa
• On the Priesthood by John Chrysostom
• The Divine Institutes by Lactantius
• Ante-Nicene Fathers

Philosophy and mathematics

• The Thoughts Of The Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
• Enchiridion (Epictetus/Arrian)
• Lives of the Eminent Philosophers (Diogenes Laërtius)

Secondary works

• The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, by Edward Gibbon (1776-1789)
• Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, ed. William Smith (1849)
• A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, by William Smith (1890)
• The Greatness and Decline of Rome by Guglielmo Ferrero, pre-1912
  • Characters and Events of Roman History, trans. by Frances Lance Ferrero, pre-1912
• Augustus. The life and times of the founder of the Roman Empire (B.C. 63-A.D. 14), by Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh (1903; 1908)
• The Women of the Caesars by Guglielmo Ferrero (1911)
• The Martyrdom of Hypatia, by Mangasar Mugurditch Mangasarian‎ (1915)

Archaeology

• "A Description of what is called a Roman Camp in Westphalia" by Theodore Augustus Mann in Archaeologia, 13 (1800), pp. 1–6

See also

• Portal:Gracchi - The Gracchi brothers (Tiberius Gracchus and Gaius Gracchus) were Roman nobleman of the 2nd century BC.
• Portal:Numa Pompilius - Second king of Rome; successor of Romulus.
• Portal:Romulus - One of the founders of the city of Rome.
• Portal:Classical Latin literature

Please consult the sub-indices at:

• List of Ancient Roman authors
• Ancient Roman literary works