Ancient Sources

Below are listed on-line texts of many Roman historians and other writers (including poets).

• Ammianus Marcellinus
  Roman History
  Another version
  


• Appian, Roman History
  Preface
  Spanish Wars
  Hannibalic War
  Punic Wars
  Illyrian Wars
  Macedonian Wars (fragments)
  Syrian Wars
  Mithridatic Wars
  Civil War 1
  Civil War 2
  Civil War 3
  Civil War 4
  Civil War 5
  


• Apuleius
  Apology
  The Golden Ass
  


• Asconius
  Commentary on Cicero's Pro Milone
  


• St. Augustine
  Confessions
  City of God
  


• Augustus
  Res Gestae
  


• Caesar
  Gallic War
  Civil War
  African War
  Alexandrine War
  Spanish War
  


• Cassius Dio, Roman History
  Index of Books 1-80
  


• Cato
  On Agriculture
  On Agriculture (another version)
  


• Catullus
  Complete Poems
  


• Cicero
  Speeches
  Letters
  Philosophical and rhetorical works
  


• Columella
  On Agriculture (books 1-4)
  


• Diodorus Siculus
  History (index, incomplete)
  


• Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities
  Index of Books 1-20
  


• Eutropius
  Breviarum (Epitome of Roman History)
  


• Florus
  Epitome of Roman History
  


• Aulus Gellius
  Attic Nights
  


• Herodian, Roman History
  Index
  Another version (index appears at top of page)
  


• Horace
  Works
  


• Inscriptions
  Lex de imperio Vespasiani
  Allia Potestas (CIL 6.37965)
  


• Josephus
  Indices to Jewish Antiquities, The Jewish War, Autobiography, Discourse on Hades, and Against Apion
  


• Juvenal
  Satires
  


• Livy, Roman History
  Books 1-5
  Books 6-10
  Books 21-25
  Books 26-32
  Books 33-39
  Books 40-45
  Periochae (Summaries of lost books--scroll down for index)
  Another Version, Books 1-8
  Another Version, Books 9-10, 21-26
  Another Version, Books 27-36
  Another Version, Books 37-45 and Periochae
  


• Lucan
  Civil War
  Another version
  


• Lucretius
  On the Nature of the Universe
  


• Martial
  Epigrams
  


• Ovid
  Metamorphoses
  Amores
  Ars Amatoria
  Remedia Amoris
  Heriodes
  Exile Poetry
  Fasti
  


• Perpetua
  The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity
  


• Persius
  Satires
  


• Petronius
  Satyricon
  


• Plautus
  Pot of Gold
  Menaechmi
  
  
• Pliny the Elder
  Natural History (index)



• Pliny the Younger
  Letters Books 1-5 (complete)
  Letters Books 6-9 (excerpts) and Book 10 (complete)
  


• Plutarch, Lives
  Romulus
  Numa
  Publicola
  Coriolanus
  Camillus
  Fabius Maximus
  Marcellus
  Flamininus
  Cato the Elder
  Aemilius Paulus
  Tiberius Gracchus
  Caius Gracchus
  Crassus
  Sertorius
  Marius
  Sulla
  Lucullus
  Cicero
  Pompey
  Cato the Younger
  Caesar
  Antony
  Brutus
  Galba
  Otho
  Pyrrhus
  


• Polybius, Roman History
  Index of Books 1-39



• Propertius
  Elegies



• Quintilian, Institutes of Oratory
  Index
  Another version
  


• Roman Law Texts
  Here (click on "15. Lingua Anglica" for an index of English Translations)
  Or here
  


• Roman Mime
  Here
  


• Sallust
  Conspiracy of Catiline
  The Jugurthine War
  Histories (fragments)
  


• Seneca
  Moral Epistles 1-65
  Moral Epistles 66-92
  Moral Epistles 93-124
  On Providence, On Firmness, On Anger, and On Mercy
  To Marcia On Consolation, On The Happy Life, On Leisure, On Tranquility of Mind, On The Shortness of Life, To Polybius On Consolation, and To Helvia On Consolation
  On Benefits
  
  


• SHA (Writers of the Historia Augusta)
  Index of Lives
  


• Statius
  Thebaid
  Silvae
  Achilleid
  
  
• Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars
  Index of Lives
  
  
• Tacitus
  Agricola
  Germania
  Annals
  Histories
  


• Terence
  The Mother-in-law
  


• Tertullian
  On Spectacles (index)
  


• Tibullus
  Elegies
  


• The Twelve Tables
  here
  


• Varro
  On Agriculture
  


• Velleius Paterculus
  Roman History
  


• Vegetius
  Military Affairs
  


• Vergil
  Aeneid
  Eclogues
  Georgics
  
  
• Vitruvius
  On Architecture



• Zosimus
  New History