Ancient Rome--Online Readings

<>Plautus

<>The Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum has an excellent collection of links to online editions of Plautus plays. Unfortunately, many of the links were dead the last time I checked. There is still a good link to The Pot of Gold.

The Perseus site has a more-or-less complete collection of extant Plautus works. Unfortunately, the site tends to be slow and difficult to navigate.

<>T. Maccius Plautus. Amphitruo. ed. F. Leo. (Latin)   (Pl. Am.) (search this work)
T. Maccius Plautus. Amphitryon, or Jupiter in Disguise. ed. Henry Thomas Riley. (English)   (Pl. Am.) (search this work)
T. Maccius Plautus. Asinaria. ed. F. Leo. (Latin)   (Pl. As.) (search this work)
T. Maccius Plautus. Asinaria, or The Ass-Dealer. ed. Henry Thomas Riley. (English)   (Pl. As.) (search this work)
T. Maccius Plautus. Aulularia. ed. F. Leo. (Latin)   (Pl. Aul.) (search this work)
T. Maccius Plautus. Aulularia, or The Concealed Treasure. ed. Henry Thomas Riley. (English)   (Pl. Aul.) (search this work)
T. Maccius Plautus. Bacchides. ed. F. Leo. (Latin)   (Pl. Bac.) (search this work)
T. Maccius Plautus. Bacchides, or The Twin Sisters. ed. Henry Thomas Riley. (English)   (Pl. Bac.) (search this work)
T. Maccius Plautus. Captivi. ed. F. Leo. (Latin)   (Pl. Capt.) (search this work)
T. Maccius Plautus. Captivi: The Captives. ed. Henry Thomas Riley. (English)   (Pl. Capt.) (search this work)
T. Maccius Plautus. Casina. ed. F. Leo. (Latin)   (Pl. Cas.) (search this work)
T. Maccius Plautus. Casina, or The Stratagem Defeated. ed. Henry Thomas Riley. (English)   (Pl. Cas.) (search this work)
T. Maccius Plautus. Cistellaria. ed. F. Leo. (Latin)   (Pl. Cist.) (search this work)
T. Maccius Plautus. Cistellaria, or The Casket. ed. Henry Thomas Riley. (English)   (Pl. Cist.) (search this work)
T. Maccius Plautus. Curculio. ed. F. Leo. (Latin)   (Pl. Cur.) (search this work)
T. Maccius Plautus. Curculio, or The Forgery. ed. Henry Thomas Riley. (English)   (Pl. Cur.) (search this work)
T. Maccius Plautus. Epidicus. ed. F. Leo. (Latin)   (Pl. Epid.) (search this work)
T. Maccius Plautus. Epidicus, or The Fortunate Discovert. ed. Henry Thomas Riley. (English)   (Pl. Epid.) (search this work)
T. Maccius Plautus. Menaechmi. ed. F. Leo. (Latin)   (Pl. Men.) (search this work)
T. Maccius Plautus. Menaechmi, or The Twin Brothers. ed. Henry Thomas Riley. (English)   (Pl. Men.) (search this work)
T. Maccius Plautus. Mercator. ed. F. Leo. (Latin)   (Pl. Mer.) (search this work)
T. Maccius Plautus. Mercator, or The Merchant. ed. Henry Thomas Riley. (English)   (Pl. Mer.) (search this work)
T. Maccius Plautus. Miles Gloriosus. ed. F. Leo. (Latin)   (Pl. Mil.) (search this work)
T. Maccius Plautus. Miles Gloriosus, or The Braggart Captain. ed. Henry Thomas Riley. (English)   (Pl. Mil.) (search this work)
T. Maccius Plautus. Mostellaria. ed. F. Leo. (Latin)   (Pl. Mos.) (search this work)
T. Maccius Plautus. Mostellaria, or The Haunted House. ed. Henry Thomas Riley. (English)   (Pl. Mos.) (search this work)
T. Maccius Plautus. Persa. ed. F. Leo. (Latin)   (Pl. Per.) (search this work)
T. Maccius Plautus. Persa, or The Persian. ed. Henry Thomas Riley. (English)   (Pl. Per.) (search this work)
T. Maccius Plautus. Poenulus. ed. F. Leo. (Latin)   (Pl. Poen.) (search this work)
T. Maccius Plautus. Poenulus, or The Young Carthaginian. ed. Henry Thomas Riley. (English)   (Pl. Poen.) (search this work)
T. Maccius Plautus. Pseudolus. ed. F. Leo. (Latin)   (Pl. Ps.) (search this work)
T. Maccius Plautus. Pseudolus, or The Cheat. ed. Henry Thomas Riley. (English)   (Pl. Ps.) (search this work)
T. Maccius Plautus. Rudens. ed. F. Leo. (Latin)   (Pl. Rud.) (search this work)
T. Maccius Plautus. Rudens, or The Fisherman's Rope. ed. Henry Thomas Riley. (English)   (Pl. Rud.) (search this work)
T. Maccius Plautus. Stichus. ed. F. Leo. (Latin)   (Pl. St.) (search this work)
T. Maccius Plautus. Stichus, or The Parasite Rebuffed. ed. Henry Thomas Riley. (English)   (Pl. St.) (search this work)
T. Maccius Plautus. Trinummus. ed. F. Leo. (Latin)   (Pl. Trin.) (search this work)
T. Maccius Plautus. Trinummus: The Three Pieces of Money. ed. Henry Thomas Riley. (English)   (Pl. Trin.) (search this work)
T. Maccius Plautus. Truculentus. ed. F. Leo. (Latin)   (Pl. Truc.) (search this work)
T. Maccius Plautus. Truculentus, or The Churl. ed. Henry Thomas Riley. (English)   (Pl. Truc.) (search this work)

Collections and Texts

In addition to the Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum, be sure to check Tufts University's Perseus Collection is an excellent source for materials on ancient Rome. A nice feature about Perseus is that it enables you to go quickly to the Latin or Greek orginals. You may, however, find it a bit tricky to navigate at first. The blue arrows and the blue line above the chosen passage are your navigation tools. See me if you're having trouble navigating.

Links from the Internet Ancient History Source Book

The links below are taken directly from the Internet Ancient History Source Book, a very well organized set of links to online materials in ancient history. I have highlighted selections I think you might find particularly useful, but feel free to choose those readings that seem to you most interesting. The links marked [at this site] may appear broken. If you go to the actual Ancient History Source Book site, the links will work.

Roman Foundations

Livy (59 BCE-17 CE): Selections from Books 1 and 2 [At Saskatchewan]
Livy (59 BCE-17 CE): History of Rome

Volume I [Books 1-5], Volume II [Books 6-10],
Volume III [Books 21-25], Volume IV [Books 26-32]
Volume V [Books 33-39], Volume VI [Books 40-45]

The Growth of Republican Institutions

The Twelve Tables 451/450 BCE selections, [At CSUN] or here [Southern Illinois] and in Latin [At Bibliotheca Augustana]
The Twelve Tables 451/450 BCE selections, [At this Site]
Livy (59 BCE-17 CE): Selections from Books 6 and 7 [At Princeton]

Polybius (c.200-after 185 BCE): Rome at the End of the Punic Wars [History, Book 6] [At this Site] (Public Domain unlike next selection, which is a more recent version.)

Polybius (c.200-after 185 BCE) Book 6.11-18: The Constitution of the Roman Republic [At Saskatchewan]
Chart: Roman Government: Checks and Balances [From Polybius, Histories, 6]
Polybius (c.200-after 185 BCE): Extensive Selections, [At Princeton]

2ND The Concepts of Fides and Virtus [At CSUN]
2ND The Republican Constitution [Modern Account][At Reed]

The War with Carthage

Herodotus (c.490-c.425 BCE): The Carthaginian Attack on Sicily, 480 BCE [At this Site]
Cornelius Nepos (c.99-c.24 BCE): Hannibal, from De Viribus Illustris, trans. J. Thomas, 1995. [At Iowa State]

The writer of the first surviving biography in Latin.

Polybius (c.200-after 118 BCE): The Battle of Cannae, 216 BCE, History, Book III.107 [At this Site]
Polybius (c.200-after 118 BCE): The Character of Hannibal, The Histories, Book IX, Chapters 22-26 [At this Site]
Polybius (c.200-after 118 BCE): The Third Punic War, 149-146 BCE, The Histories, Book XXXVI-XXXIX [At this Site]
2ND The Punic Wars [Modern account][At Reed College]

Imperial Expansion under the Republic

Chinese Accounts of Rome, Byzantium and the Middle East, c. 91 B.C.E. - 1643 C.E.
Time Line for Foreign Policy to 272 BCE [At Reed]
Polybius (c.200-after 118 BCE): The Roman Maniple vs. The Macedonian Phalanx, The Histories, Book XVIII, Chapters 28-32 [At this Site]
Plutarch (c.46-c.120 CE): Life of Pyrrhus [At MIT]
Polybius (c.200-after 118 BCE): The Destruction of Corinth, 146 BCE The Histories, Book XXXVIII, Chapters 3-11; Book XXXIX, Chapters 7-17 [At this Site]
Plutarch (c.46-c.120 CE): Life of Cato the Elder (234-149 BCE)[At MIT]
Mithridates & The Roman Conquests in the East, 90-61 BCE, excerpts from Appian, Mithridatic Wars, 114-119, and Plutarch, Life of Lucullus. [At this Site]:
Julius Caesar (100-44 BCE): War Commentaries [At M Univ]

Julius Caesar (100-44 BCE): The Gallic Wars [At Princeton]

Julius Caesar (100-44 BCE): Caesar and Vercingetorix, 52 BCE [At Hillsdale]
Tacitus: (b.56/57-after 117 CE): Boudicca (Annals 14: 29-37) [At Iowa State] and here [Athenapub]
2ND The Landings of Caesar in Britain, 55 and 54 BCE [At Athenapub]
2ND Rome, Greece and the East to 168 BCE [Modern Account][At Reed]

Civil Wars and Revolution

Appian {1st Cent CE): The Civil Wars (On the Gracchi) [This Site]
Plutarch (c.46-c.120 CE): Life of Tiberius Gracchus (c.164-133 BCE) [At MIT]
Plutarch (c.46-c.120 CE): Tiberius Gracchus (c.164-133 BCE) translated by John Dryden, excerpts. [At this Site]

2ND

Sources on Tiberius Gracchus

Plutarch (c.46-c.120 CE) Life of Caius Gracchus (c.121 BCE)[At MIT]
The Gracchi [Modern Account][At Reed]
Plutarch (c.46-c.120 CE): Life of Sulla (c.138-78BCE)[At MIT]
Plutarch (c.46-c.120 CE): Life of Marius (157-86 BCE)[At MIT]
Sallust (prob.86-35 BCE): Selections on the Jugurthine War [At Saskatchewan]

A Speech by Marius.

[This link seems to be broken. Try the Gutenberg Project edition of Sallust]

Sallust (prob.86-35 BCE): Life in Rome in the Late Republic, . 63 BCE, excerpts from the Catiline Conspiracy [At this Site]
Sallust (prob.86-35 BCE): The Catiline Conspiracy, 63 BCE [At Princeton]
Cicero (105-43 BCE): First Oration Against Catiline 63 BCE [At Ancient Languages]
Lucan (Marcus Annaeus Lucanus) (39-65 CE): Pharsalia (aka "The Civil War") [At OMACL]
Plutarch (c.46-c.120 CE): Life of Pompey (100-48 BCE)[At MIT]
Plutarch (c.46-c.120 CE): Life of Crassus (115-53 BCE)[At MIT]
Cicero (105-43 BCE)

Cicero (105-43 BCE): Selected Letters. 36 selected letters. [At this Site]
Cicero (105-43 BCE): On Friendship, or Laelius, full text, trans by Evelyn S. Shuckburgh [At this Site]
Cicero (105-43 BCE): On Friendship, or Laelius, full text, trans by W. Melmoth [At this Site]
Cicero (105-43 BCE): Old Age, c. 65 BCE (Harvard Classics series)[At this Site]
Cicero (105-43 BCE): On the Laws, excerpts from Books II and III, [At this Site]
Cicero (105-43 BCE): On the Republic, excerpts from Book I, [At this Site]
Cicero (105-43 BCE): On the Republic: Scipio's Dream, excerpts from Book VI, [At this Site]
Cicero (105-43 BCE): The Second Philippic [At this Site]
Cicero (105-43 BCE): On the Genres of Rhetoric. excerpts from various texts, [At Towson]
Plutarch (c.46-c.120 CE): Life of Cicero (98-c.55 BCE)[At MIT]
Asconius (9 BCE-76 CE): On Cicero's Pro Milone [At CSUN]
WEB Cicero Homepage [At Utexas] for texts in Latin

The Roman Candidate, 64, 54 BCE

Letter to His Brother Marcus Cicero

Plutarch (c.46-c.120 CE): Life of Caesar (100-44 BCE)[At MIT]
Suetonius (c.69-after 122 CE): De Vita Caesarum, Divus Iulius (The Lives of the Caesars, The Deified Julius), written c. 110 CE, Rolfe translation. [At this Site]
Plutarch (c.46-c.120 CE): The Assassination of Julius Caesar, from Marcus Brutus, excerpts, translated by John Dryden. [At this Site]
Plutarch (c.46-c.120 CE): Life of Anthony (82-30 BCE) [At MIT]

The Principate to 192 CE

Augustus

Cicero (105-43 BCE): Selections from Letters on the Rise of Augustus [At Saskatchewan]
Tacitus (b.56/57-after 117 CE): The End of the Republic [This Site]
Augustus (63 BCE-14 CE): Acts of the Divine Augustus (Res Gestae Divi Augusti) [At MIT]
Augustus (63 BCE-14 CE): Res Gestae [In Latin][At CSUN]
Augustus (63 BCE-14 CE): Selections from the Acts of the Divine Augustus (Res Gestae Divi Augusti) [At Saskatchewan]
Augustus (63 BCE-14 CE): Res Gestae Divi Augusti, c. 14 CE, long excerpts, in English. [At this Site]
Augustus (63 BCE-14 CE): Select Testimonia [At Saskatchewan]
Augustan Encomiums, c. 31 BCE - 14 CE [At this Site]

Secular hymn

Aeneid

Suetonius (c.69-after 122 CE): Life of Augustus (outline)(63 BCE-14 CE) [At CSUN]
Suetonius (c.69-after 122 CE): De Vita Caesarum-Augustus, written c. 110 CE, Rolfe translation, [At this Site]
Suetonius (c.69-after 122 CE): Life of Augustus, complete, Worthington translation, [At this Site]
Nicolaus of Damascus (1st Cent CE): Life of Augustus (63 BCE-14 CE)[At CSUN]
Claudius Claudian: Panegyricus de Sexto Consulatu Honorii Augusti. In Latin [At Upenn]
Dio Cassius (c.155-235 CE): Roman History Book 52
Augustus' Legislation [At CSUN]
Velleius Paterculus (c.19 BCE-after 30 CE: The Battle of Teutoburg Forest, 9 CE [At Hillsdale]
Chart: Roman Government Under Augustus [GIF File][At this Site]
2ND Nina C. Coppolino: Augustus [At DIR]
2ND Sources on Augustus [Modern Account][At Reed]
WEB Mausoleum of Augustus Texts [At CSUN]

The Julio-Claudian Dynasty 14-68 CE

Suetonius: De Vita Caesarum: Tiberius, written c. 110 CE, Rolfe translation, [At this Site]
Suetonius (c.69-after 122 CE): De Vita Caesarum: Caius Caligula (The Lives of the Caesars: Caius Caligula), written c. 110 CE, Rolfe translation [At this Site]
Suetonius (c.69-after 122 CE): Life of Claudius, complete, Worthington translation, [At this Site]
Suetonius (c.69-after 122 CE): De Vita Caesarum: Claudius (The Lives of the Caesars: Claudius), written c. 110 CE, Rolfe translation [At this Site]
Proclamation of Nero's Succession Nov 17, 54 CE [in Greek and English][At St Olaf]
Suetonius (c.69-after 122 CE): De Vita Caesarum: Nero, written c. 110 CE, Rolfe translation [At this Site]
Suetonius (c.69-after 122 CE): Life of Nero, 32-34. in Latin [At Gabli]
Tacitus (b.56/57-after 117 CE): Murder of Agrippina (Book XIV, 1-16) [At Heliogabby)
Tacitus (b.56/57-after 117 CE): The Fire of Rome 64 CE [At IDBSU]
Dio Cassius (c.155-235 CE): Nero and the Great Fire of Rome, 64 CE, from Roman History, 62.16-18 [At this Site]
Tacitus (b.56/57-after 117 CE): Annals: Book I 64 CE [At Calgary]
Tacitus (b.56/57-after 117 CE): Annals and Histories, Full texts [At M Univ]

69 CE: Year of Three Emperors

Suetonius (c.69-after 122 CE): De Vita Caesarum: Galba, written c. 110 CE, Rolfe translation [At this Site]
Suetonius (c.69-after 122 CE): De Vita Caesarum: Otho, written c. 110 CE, Rolfe translation [At this Site]
Suetonius (c.69-after 122 CE): De Vita Caesarum: Vitellius, written c. 110 CE, Rolfe translation [At this Site]
Suetonius (c.69-after 122 CE): Life of Vitellius (b. 15 - r. 69 -d.69 CE)

The Flavian Emperors 69-96 CE

Tacitus (b.56/57-after 117 CE): The Legions Proclaim Vespasian Emperor, 69 CE [This Site]
Lex De Imperio Vespasiani "The Law concerning the power of Vespasian" [document designation: ILS 244] 69/70 CE [At Iowa State]
Suetonius (c.69-after 122 CE): De Vita Caesarum: Vespasian, written c. 110 CE, Rolfe translation [At this Site]
Suetonius (c.69-after 122 CE): De Vita Caesarum: Titus, written c. 110 CE, Rolfe translation [At this Site]
Suetonius (c.69-after 122 CE): De Vita Caesarum: Domitian, written c. 110 CE, Rolfe translation [At this Site]
Suetonius (c.69-after 122 CE): Life of Domitian (b. 51 - r. 81 - d. 96 CE) Chap. IV: How Domitian Attempted to Amuse the Roman Populace. [At this Site]
Tacitus (b.56/57-after 117 CE): Life of Cnaeus Julius Agricola (40-93 CE), c.98 CE, trans. J. Church and W. J. Brodribb. [At this Site]
Tacitus (b.56/57-after 117 CE): The Life of Gnaeus Julius Agricola (40-93 CE) [At Iowa State]

The Adoptive Emperors 96-192 CE

Tacitus (b.56/57-after 117 CE): The Principle of Adoption [At this Site]
Aurelius Victor, Liber de Caesaribus 13: Trajan [In Latin][At CSUN]
Pliny the Younger (61/62-113 CE): Selected Letters, c 100 CE (Harvard Classics series)[At this Site]

Pliny the Younger (61/62-113 CE) and Trajan (r.98-117 CE): Letters, Book X. 25ff : The Correspondence of a Provincial Governor and the Emperor Trajan, c. 112 CE [At this Site]
Pliny the Younger (61/62-113 CE): The Letters of Pliny the Consul. With Occasional Remarks., Vol.2, (Tenth Edition), William Melmoth, London (1805) [lightly emended] Book 10 [At Princeton]
Aelius Spartianus: Life of Hadrian, (r. 117-138 CE.), excerpts. [At this Site]
Aelius Spartianus: Life of Hadrian, (r. 117-138 CE.), complete. [At this Site]
Marcus Aurelius (b.121- r.161-d.180): The Character of Antoninus Pius (b.86-r.138-d.161 CE), from Meditations I.16: [At this Site]
Julius Capitolinus: The Life of Antoninus Pius [At this Site]

Eutropius (4th Cent CE): The Reign of Marcus Aurelius, 161-180 CE, from Compendium of Roman History, 8:.12-14 [At this Site]