Supplementary list for the concentration in ancient history

This list gives a general template: at the end of their first year, students draw up individual lists reflecting their own interests, in conjunction with their committees.

Sources for Greek History

Aeneas Tacticus, selection

Aeschines, selections from Against Ctesiphon

Aristotle, Constitution of Athens, selections from Politics

Arrian, Anabasis of Alexander, selection

Demosthenes, 1 Philippic, selections from On the Crown

Diodorus Siculus, selection

Herodotus, Bk 9 and one other book

Homer, Odyssey, 2 books

Isaeus, selection of speeches

Lysias, selection of speeches

Nepos, selected Lives

Plato, Apology, one book of the Republic

Plutarch, Lives of Pericles, Lysander, selection of Alexander

Thucydides, Bk 1 (or another book)

Xenophon, selections from Anabasis, Hellenika

 

Meiggs & Lewis, A Selection of Greek Historical Inscriptions to the End of the Fifth Century B.C.

Rhodes & Osborne, Greek Historical Inscriptions 404-323 BC

Selection from fragments of Greek historians

Sources for Roman History

Ammianus Marcellinus, one book

Augustine, City of God Bk 3

Caesar, one book of the De bello Gallico

Cassius Dio, one book on the reign of Augustus

Cicero, On the State Bks 1 and 2

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, one book

Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History Bks 8 and 9

Livy, one book of the Hannibalic war

Ovid, Fasti Bk 4

Pliny the Younger, Letters Bk 10 (Correspondence with Trajan)

Plutarch, one Roman life

Polybius, Bks 1 and 6

Scriptores Historiae Augustae, Life of Hadrian or Septimius Severus

Suetonius, Life of Caesar or Life of August and one other life

Tacitus, one book of the Histories; one book of the Annals

Selection of inscriptions from H. Dessau, Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae

Selection of legal texts

Selection from fragments of Roman historians

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