The historians of ancient Rome / edited by Ronald Mellor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mellor, Ronald.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rome--History.

Rome.

Rome (Empire).

History.

Physical Description:

x, 617 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : Routledge, 2004.

Summary:

From reviews of the first edition: "The Historians of Ancient Rome will certainly and deservedly satisfy many, more, in fact, than any of its competitors." -- Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewCovering more than a thousand years of Roman history, The Historians of Ancient Rome is the most comprehensive single volume of ancient sources available in English for the study of Rome. Ronald Mellor has selected extensive passages as well as complete texts by ten Greek and Roman historians, from Livy's account of the city's foundation by Romulus to the great defeat at Adrianople of Ammianus Marcellinus. Major longer works are judiciously abridged or excerpted; Sallust's "The Catilinarian Conspiracy," Suetonius's Life of Julius Caesar, and Augustus's"Res Gestae" are presented in their entirety. This second edition has been expanded to include greater coverage of the late Republic and Roman Empire.

Contents:

Polybius 15

Histories

I 1-14 17

II 1-2; 7-12 27

III 1; 4; 6-31 32

VI 11-18; 56-57 50

Appian 65

The Civil Wars 1 1-26 65

Sallust 81

The Catilinarian Conspiracy 1-61 82

Cicero 117

First Oration Against Catiline 118

Letters

To Atticus 1 2 128

To Pompey in Letters to Friends V 1 129

To Atticus VIII 8; XIV 12 130

To Marcus Brutus at Dyrrachium I 3 131

To Atticus XVI 8 132

To Decimus Brutus in Letters to Friends II, 20 133

C. Julius Caesar 135

Commentaries on the Gallic War

I 1-54 136

VI 11-28 162

Livy 169

From the Founding of the City

I 1-13; 15-17; 34-49; 55-60 170

II 31-40 205

III 33-37; 44-49; 56-58 215

V 34-49 227

XXI 1-2; 20-48 242

XXII 3-7; 44-51 266

XXX 28-37 277

XXXI 1-9 288

XXXIII 6-10; 30-33; 38-40 295

XXXIV 1-8 304

XXXVI 15-19 312

XXXVIII 37-38 317

XXXIX 51 319

Augustus 321

The Achievements of Augustus (Res Gestae Divi Augusti) 322

Appendix 1-4 329

Josephus 331

Jewish War VII 8-9 332

Suetonius 347

Life of Julius Caesar 1-89 348

Life of Augustus 1-101 381

Tacitus 427

The Life of Agricola 428

Annals

I 1-15; 33-53; 72-75 451

II 69-73 471

III 1-18 473

IV 1-12; 32-35 481

V 50-51 489

XI 23-38 490

XII 65-69 498

XIII 1-5 599

XIV 1-11; 60-65 502

XV 37-44; 60-64 510

XVI 18-19 516

I 1-16 517

III 66-72 526

Pliny the Younger 531

Letters to Tacitus on Vesuvius VI 16; 20 531

Letters Between Pliny and Trajan on the Christians X 96-97 536

Cassius Dio 539

Roman History Epitome of Book LXVIII 539

Eusebius 557

The Life of Constantine 1 1-42 558

Writers of Augustan History (Scriptores Historiae Augustae) 575

Life of Hadrian 575

Ammianus Marcellinus 595

XXV 1-4 596

XXXI 12-14 606.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [615]-617).

ISBN:

041597108X

OCLC:

55286064