Ancient Rome Reading List
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Auxiliary Reading:
- Durant, Will. Caesar and Christ
Republic: History:
- Livy. History
- Sallust. Jugurthine War, Conspiracy of Catiline
Republic: Literature:
- Plautus. Complete Plays
- Terence. Complete Plays
- Cicero. Against Verres, Against Catiline,
For Murena, For Archias,
For Caelius, Against Piso,
For Milo, For Marcellus,
Philippics (selected), On Old Age,
On Friendship, On Duties,
Selected Letters
- Lucretius. On the Nature of Things
- Catullus. Poems
Empire: History:
- Tacitus. Histories, Annals
- Suetonius. Lives of the Caesars
- Graves. I, Claudius, Claudius the God
Empire: Literature:
- Virgil. Aeneid, Eclogues,
Georgics
- Horace. Odes, Epodes,
Epistles, Satires
- Ovid. Art of Love, Amores,
Metamorphoses, Cure for Love
- Longinus. On the Sublime
- Petronius. Satyricon
- Pliny the Younger. Letters
- Juvenal. Satires
- Apuleius. Golden Ass
- Marcus Aurelius. Meditations
Recapitulation of Classical Greece and Rome:
- Plutarch. Lives
- Oxford History of the Classical World