The Oxford History Of The Classical World

San Francisco, 1978), which includes Ai Khanoum, and J.M. Rosen-field, The Dynastic Arts of the Kushans (Berkeley, 1967). For th ...

Anthology, ed. Peter Jay (London, 1973); Herodas was translated by his editor, W. Headlam (Cambridge, 1922); Apollonius is trans ...

For an analysis of recent work in the area, see M.H. Crawford, 'Rome and Italy', in Journal of Roman Studies 71 (1981), 153-60. ...

Roman Studies, 1981. There is a good general account in C. Nicolet, Rome et la conquete du monde mediterraneen, ii: Genese d'un ...

Barsby's edition of Bacchides (Warminster, 1986) includes a very successful verse translation and full commentary based on it, a ...

Plutarch's Lives of Sulla, Crassus, Pompey, Caesar, and Cicero feature in the Penguin Plutarch: Fall of the Roman Republic. They ...

Finally, it may be useful to list a few books that help to put the political life of the late Republic in a broader social conte ...

Hellenistic And Graeco-Roman Art (By Roger Ling) There is a shortage of good books in English dealing specifically with the ar ...

Loeb Classical Library. Augustus' own Res Gestae Divi Augusti can be consulted in the excellent edition, with translation and co ...

The Arts Of Government (By Nicholas Purcell) Fundamental is F. Millar, The Emperor in the Roman World (London, 1977), not only ...

Greek World (London, 1981), who (p. 503) likens the behaviour of the rulers of the Empire to that of vampire bats. Augustan Poe ...

Griffin's Virgil (Oxford 1986, in the Past Masters series) deals particularly with the poet's ideas. The Cambridge History of Cl ...

especially chs. 4, 5, and 7, is important for both the historians themselves and their place in the development of historiograph ...

Roman Society from Nero to M. Aurelius (London, 1904). Both are still worth reading. Authors Texts and translations of most of t ...

this 'epistolary romance' and a useful introduction. 'Longinus': Ed. with commentary, D. A. Russell (Oxford, 1964; repr. 1982). ...

G. Williams, Change and decline: Roman literature in the early empire (Berkeley, 1978) surveys the whole period. On individual p ...

the speeches and sayings of Marcus and a useful note on his attitude to Christians, in which Haines challenges the popular view ...

Roman Life And Society (By John Matthews) The literary sources mentioned are available in the Loeb Classical Library, and in m ...

Landlords and Tenants in Imperial Rome (Princeton, 1980) is urban leasehold law but he has much to say about the physical condit ...

(London, 1967), and the reference work of S. B. Platner and T. Ashby, Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome (Oxford, 1929) an ...