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ANCIENT TEXTS

at this site

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LATIN TEXTS

• The Polla Tablet (Inscriptiones Latinae Liberae Rei Publicae I, 454) (3rd quarter, II. B.C.)
• Res Gestae Divi Augusti (A.D. 13)
• Ludi Saeculares (17 B.C.)
• Aurelius Victor The Emperor Trajan
• Pompeian Inscriptions, I
• Pompeian Inscriptions, II
• Some texts relating to Early Roman Historiography : annales, historiae, monographs
• Enlistment Preliminaries, Egypt (A.D. 92)
• Cincius de re militari, on soldiers' oaths.
• Corbulo and the Parthian War ( A. D. 58-66).

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ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF LATIN TEXTS

• Valerius Maximus and Livy on Roman soldiers (II. B.C.)
• Mausoleum of Augustus
• Corbulo and the Parthian War ( A. D. 58-66).
• Asconius, on Cicero's Pro Milone.
• Tertullian : Christians and the arena.
• Pope Gregory VII: Dictatus Papae.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF GREEK TEXTS

• Sparta: The Great Rhetra .
• Sparta: The Krypteia.
• Sparta: Selections about Alcman.
• Sparta: Topography of the town of Sparta.
• Ostracism at Athens.
• Pythagoras.
• Archytas of Tarentum (friend of Plato, Pythagorean).
• Xenophanes of Colophon (selections).
• Solon
• The Physician's Oath ('Hippokrates of Keos')
• Aristotle: The Poetics.
• Some Stoic source texts.
• Euhemerus of Messene (selections)
• Nicolaus of Damascus, Life of Augustus (I. A.D.)
• Emperor Claudius , Letter to the Alexandrians (A.D. 41)
• Enlistment Preliminaries, Egypt (A.D. 51)
• Some Letters written by Roman soldiers (recruits to the Fleet). (II. A.D.)
• Examination (epikrisis) of a Roman Auxiliary veteran (A.D. 188)
• Ecumenical Council of Nicaea Canons (A.D. 325)
• Eusebius of Caesarea Selections from the Ecclesiastical History
• Roman Emperors and the Christian Church: some texts.

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OTHER TEXTS

• Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince: some quotations.
• Thomas Jefferson: "I am an Epicurean" (1819)
• Thomas Paine Quotations from The Rights of Man
• Sinclair Lewis, quotations from Babbitt
• Notes on Maimonides' sources Aristotle and the Mutakallimun.
• More notes on intellectual world of Maimonides.
• Notes on Papal Conclaves (with contemporary documents and texts), by J. P. Adams

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