Portal:Ancient Rome
This index lists books and texts related to ancient Rome, generally defined as being prior to the fall of the Western Roman Empire (476 A.D.) See also Category:Ancient Roman historical works and Category:Roman history.
Primary worksEdit
Natural and cultural studiesEdit
- On the Natural Faculties (Galen)
- Commentaries (Gaius)
- Natural History (Pliny the Elder)
- Germania (Tacitus, c. 98 A.D.)
- On Style (Demetrius)
- On the Sublime (Longinus)
- On the Lives of the Sophists (Philostratus)
- Works (Ptolemy)
- Institutes of Oratory (Quintilian)
- Ten Books on Architecture (Vitruvius)
- Geographica (Strabo)
Literary worksEdit
- The Golden Asse (Lucius Apuleius)
- Bucolics (Virgil)
- Eclogues (Virgil)
- Georgics (Virgil)
- The Aeneid (Virgil)
- Apocolocyntosis (Seneca)
- Poems (Catullus)
- Satires (Horace)
- Satires (Juvenal)
- Works (Ovid)
- Works (Plautus)
- Works (Terence)
- Misopogon by Julian
BiographyEdit
- 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.
HistoryEdit
- 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
- Augustus. The life and times of the founder of the Roman Empire (B.C. 63-A.D. 14), 1903 by Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh
- 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
Theology and ReligionEdit
- 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
- Works of Tertullian
- Works of Philo
- The Elements of Theology by (Proclus)
- Orations by Gregory of Nazianzus
- New Testament
- Talmud
- Ante-Nicene Fathers
- Against the Galileans by Julian
Philosophy and mathematicsEdit
- The Thoughts Of The Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
- On the Nature of Things (Lucretius)
- Enchiridion (Epictetus/Arrian)
- Discourses (Epictetus)
- Philosophical works (Cicero)
- Lives of Eminent Philosophers (Diogenes Laërtius)
- On Benefits (Seneca)
- Eisagoge (Porphyry)
- Works of Sextus Empiricus
- Introduction to Arithmetic (Nichomachus)
Secondary worksEdit
- The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1776-1789 by Edward Gibbon
- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, 1890 by William Smith
- 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 Martyrdom of Hypatia, 1915 by Mangasar Mugurditch Mangasarian
- The Women of the Caesars by Guglielmo Ferrero (1911)
See alsoEdit
- 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.
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