The Oxford History Of The Classical World

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Anthology, ed. Peter Jay (London, 1973); Herodas was translated by his editor, W. Headlam
(Cambridge, 1922); Apollonius is translated in the Penguin Classics series, by E.V. Rieu
(Harmondsworth, 1958).



  1. Hellenistic Philosophy And Science (By Jonathan Barnes)


Systematic accounts of Stoicism and Epicureanism can be found in Books 7 and 10 of Diogenes
Laertius' Lives of the Philosophers (Book 10 includes the three Letters of Epicurus). For the New
Academy the most useful single text is Cicero's Academica. The works of Sextus Empiricus - Outlines
of Pyrrhonism and Against the Mathematicians - contain a mass of further material. All those texts are
available in English translation in the Loeb Classical Library. Much of our information, however, comes
in fragments. For Epicurus the indispensable aids are: G. Arrighetti (ed.), Epicuw - Opere (Turin,
19732); H. Usener (ed.), Epicurea (Leipzig, 1887). The fundamental work for Stoicism is H. von Arnim
(ed.) Stoicorum Veterum Fragmenta (Leipzig, 1903-24). There is nothing comparable for the New
Academy.


The best English introduction to the subject is A.A. Long, Hellenistic Philosophy (London, 1974).
Modern research can be approached by way of two collections of papers: M. Schofield, M.F. Burnyeat,
J. Barnes (eds.): Doubt and Dogmatism (Oxford, 1980); J. Barnes, J. Brunschwig, M.F. Burnyeat, M.
Schofield (eds.): Science and Speculation (Cambridge, 1982).



  1. Early Rome And Italy (By Michael Crawford)


M. Beard and M. H. Crawford, Rome in the Late Republic (London, 1984), as well as providing a
critical account of the main problems, contains a full account of the available translations of the ancient
sources for Republican history as a whole and a full bibliography for the end of the Republic.


T. Cornell and J. Matthews, Atlas of the Roman World (Oxford, 1982) contains a good general account
of Roman history and an excellent selection of maps and pictures.


Among histories of Rome, note R. M. Ogilvie, Early Rome and the Etruscans (London, 1976) and M. H.
Crawford, The Roman Republic (London, 1978); H. H. Scullard, History of the Roman World 753-146
BC, 4th edn. (London, 1981), and From the Gracchi to Nero, 4th edn. (London, 1976); P.A. Brunt,
Social Conflicts in the Roman Republic (London. 1971).


T. R. S. Broughton, Magistrates of the Roman Republic, i-ii (New York, i960), iii (1987), provides a
year by year list of magistrates, with references to the sources and modern discussions.

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