Ebook: Ancient Rome: an anthology of sources

Introduction -- Maps -- LITERARY TEXTS. Appian, "The civil wars : a) The crisis of the late republic, b) The problem of land and of Tiberius Gracchus, c) Spartacus and the great slave revolt" -- Augustus, "The accomplishments of the deified Augustus" -- Catullus, "Poems" -- Cicero, "In defense of Archias," "Letters" -- Quintus Cicero, "Running for office : a handbook" -- Epictetus, "Handbook of stoic philosophy" -- Horace, "Satires," "Odes" -- Juvenal, "Satires" -- Livy, "A history of Rome from its foundation" -- Lucretius, "On the nature of things" -- Martial, "On the spectacles," "Epigrams" -- Novatian, "On the spectacles" -- Ovid, "The art of love, Book 1," "Fasti," "Tristia" -- Perpetua, "The martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicitas" -- Petronius, "Trimalchio's dinner party" -- Pliny the Younger, "Letters" -- Plutarch, "The life of Marcus Cato" (whole), "The life of Aemilius Paulus" (excerpts) -- Polybius, "Histories" -- Quintilian, "The instruction of an orator" -- Seneca, "Philosophical letters," "The ascension of Claudius the Pumpkinhead into heaven" -- Sulpicia, "Elegies" -- Valerius Maximus, "Memorable deeds and sayings" -- Vergil, "Eclogue 1," "Eclogue 4" -- DOCUMENTARY SECTION. Inscriptions -- Laws of the twelve tables -- A Roman calendar -- A Roman schoolbook -- APPENDICES. Roman names -- Roman time-reckoning -- Roman currency, weights and measures -- A list of Roman emperors to 337 AD -- Notes on the texts and translations -- Literary authors -- Documentary section.