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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.

Please consult the sub-indices at:

• • List of Ancient Roman authors
  • Ancient Roman literary works

Natural and cultural studies

• 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 (Quintillian)
• Ten Books on Architecture (Vitruvius)
• Geographica (Strabo)

Literary works

• 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

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

History

• From the Founding of the City (Livy, c. 14 A.D.)
• The History of Rome by Theodor Mommsen, 1882
• Commentaries on the Civil War (Julius Caesar)
• Roman History by Appian of Alexandria, c. 150 A.D.
• 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)
• The Histories (Tacitus)
• The Annals (Tacitus)
• The Antiquities of the Jews (Josephus)
• The War of the Jews (Josephus)
• Epitome of Roman History, circa. 200 A.D. by Florus
• Works of Sallust
• The Later Roman Empire by Ammianus Marcellinus
• Abridgement of Roman History by Eutropius
• The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
• The Law of Civilization and Decay/Chapter I by Brooks Adams, 1896
• History of the Empire From the Death of Marcus by Herodian
• Roman History Cassius Dio

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
• 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 mathematics

• The Thoughts Of The Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
• On the Nature of Things (Lucretius)
• Enchiridion (Epictetus)
• Discourses (Epictetus)
• Philosophical works (Cicero)
• Lives of Eminent Philosophers (Diogenes Laërtius)
• On Benefits (Seneca)
• Eisagoge (Porphyry)
• Works of Sextus Empiricus
• Introduction to Arithmetic (Nichomachus)

[edit] Secondary works

• 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)