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Greece and Rome

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1Greece and Rome

1. Plutarch · Plutarch’s Lives (ed. 1932)
2. Arthur M. Eckstein · Mediterranean Anarchy, Interstate War, and the Rise of Rome (2006)
3. Werner Jaeger · Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture, Volume II (trans. 1943)
4. Werner Jaeger · Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture, Volume III (trans. 1944)
5. Werner Jaeger · Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture, Volume I (trans. 1939)
6. Paul Johnson · A History of Christianity (1976)
7. Thomas Aquinas; Dino Bigongiari (ed.) · The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas (ed. 1953)
8. Bryan Ward-Perkins · The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization (2005)
9. Livy · The War with Hannibal (trans. 1965)
10. Sallust · The Jugurthine War and The Conspiracy of Catiline (trans. 1963)
11. Henry Thompson Rowell · Rome in the Augustan Age (1962)
12. Ernest Barker · Greek Political Theory: Plato and His Predecessors (1918)
13. Plutarch · Plutarch’s Lives, Volume I (ed. 1932)
14. Christian Meier · Caesar: A Biography (trans. 1995)
15. Tenney Frank · A History of Rome (1923)
16. Chester G. Starr · A History of the Ancient World (1965)
17. Michael Grant · History of Rome (1978)

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2Greece and Rome

1. Fergus Millar · The Roman Empire and Its Neighbours (1967)
2. J. C. J. Metford · Dictionary of Christian Lore and Legend (1983)
3. E. J. Bickerman · Chronology of the Ancient World (1968)
4. Plato and Aristophanes; Thomas G. West and Grace Starry West (trans.) · Four Texts on Socrates (1984)
5. Paul Harvey (ed.) · The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature (1937)
6. Nathan Tarcov · Locke’s Education for Liberty (1984)
7. Oswyn Murray · Early Greece (1980)
8. F. W. Walbank · The Hellenistic World (1981)
9. Anton Powell · Athens and Sparta: Constructing Greek Political and Social History from 478 BC (1988)
10. Aeschylus · The Oresteian Trilogy (trans. 1956)
11. Thucydides; Rex Warner (trans.) · History of the Peloponnesian War (trans. 1954)
12. Clifford Orwin · The Humanity of Thucydides (1994)
13. Richard Schlatter (ed.) · Hobbes’s Thucydides (ed. 1975)
14. Averil Cameron · The Later Roman Empire, AD 284–430 (1993)
15. John Boardman, Jasper Griffin, and Oswyn Murray (eds.) · The Oxford History of the Classical World (1986)
16. Xenophon; Robert B. Strassler (ed.) · The Landmark Xenophon’s Hellenika (2009)
17. Thucydides; Robert B. Strassler (ed.) · The Landmark Thucydides (1996)
18. Ramsay MacMullen · Corruption and the Decline of Rome (1988)
19. Donald Kagan · On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace (1995)
20. Tacitus; Moses Hadas (ed.) · The Complete Works of Tacitus (ed. 1942)

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3Greece and Rome

1. Chester G. Starr · The Influence of Sea Power on Ancient History (1989)
2. Michael H. Crawford · The Roman Republic (1978)
3. Plato; Walter Hamilton (trans.) · The Symposium (trans. 1951)
4. Livy · The Early History of Rome (trans. 1960)
5. Cicero · On the Good Life (trans. 1967)
6. Victor Davis Hanson and John Heath · Who Killed Homer?: The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom (1998)
7. Roger Brock and Stephen Hodkinson (eds.) · Alternatives to Athens: Varieties of Political Organization and Community in Ancient Greece (2000)
8. William Jennings Bryan and Francis W. Halsey (eds.) · The World’s Famous Orations, Volume VII: Continental Europe (1906)
9. William Jennings Bryan and Francis W. Halsey (eds.) · The World’s Famous Orations, Volume VIII: America I (1906)
10. Augustine; Henry Paolucci (ed.) · The Political Writings of St. Augustine (ed. 1962)
11. Tacitus · The Annals of Imperial Rome (trans. 1956)
12. Livy · Rome and Italy (trans. 1982)
13. Erich S. Gruen (ed.) · The Image of Rome (1969)
14. Harold Mattingly · Roman Imperial Civilisation (1933)
15. Cicero; Walter Miller (trans.) · De Officiis (On Duties) (trans. 1913)
16. Michael Grant · Atlas of Classical History (1971)

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4Greece and Rome

1. Franklin Le Van Baumer (ed.) · Main Currents of Western Thought: Readings in Western European Intellectual History from the Middle Ages to the Present (1952)
2. Theodor Mommsen · The History of Rome, Volume II (1854–1856)
3. Theodor Mommsen · The History of Rome, Volume IV (1854–1856)
4. Theodor Mommsen · The History of Rome, Volume III (1854–1856)
5. Theodor Mommsen · The History of Rome, Volume I (1854–1856)
6. Kenneth C. Schellhase · Tacitus in Renaissance Political Thought (1976)
7. Michael Grant · The World of Rome (1960)
8. Cicero · Selected Political Speeches (trans. 1969)
9. Cicero · Selected Political Speeches (trans. 1969)
10. Fergus Millar · The Roman Republic in Political Thought (2002)
11. Edward Gibbon; D. M. Saunders (ed., abridged) · The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776–1789)
12. Simon Baker · Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire (2006)
13. David Shotter · The Fall of the Roman Republic (2nd ed.) (2005)
14. Plutarch · Plutarch’s Lives, Volume II (ed. 1932)
15. Dionysius of Halicarnassus; W. Kendrick Pritchett (trans.) · On Thucydides (trans. 1975)
16. W. Warde Fowler; M. P. Charlesworth (rev.) · Rome (1912)
17. Donald Earl · The Moral and Political Tradition of Rome (1967)
18. Jennifer Tolbert Roberts · Athens on Trial: The Antidemocratic Tradition in Western Thought (1994)
19. Tacitus · The Annals of Imperial Rome (trans. 1956)
20. James Romm · Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero (2014)
21. Carl J. Richard · Greeks & Romans Bearing Gifts: How the Ancients Inspired the Founding Fathers (2008)