Reading companion and full text of Livy's Ab Urbe Condita, Volume V (Books 21–22), translated by B. O. Foster — the opening of the Second Punic War, from Hannibal's oath through the crossing of the Alps, the battles of Trebia and Lake Trasimene, and the catastrophe of Cannae.
Reading companion and full text of Livy's Ab Urbe Condita, Volume VI (Books 23–25), translated by F. G. Moore — the aftermath of Cannae, the defection and eventual siege of Capua, the fall of Syracuse and death of Archimedes, and the reverses in Spain.
Reading companion and full text of Livy's Ab Urbe Condita, Volume VII (Books 26–30), translated by F. G. Moore — the turn of the Second Punic War, from the rise of Scipio Africanus in Spain through the Battle of the Metaurus, the African campaign, and the final confrontation at Zama.
Reading companion and full text of Suetonius's De Vita Caesarum (The Lives of the Caesars), Volume I, translated by J. C. Rolfe — biographies of Julius Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius, and Caligula, combining official record, anecdote, and scandal into the foundational portraits of Rome's first rulers.
Reading companion and full text of Suetonius's De Vita Caesarum (The Lives of the Caesars), Volume II, translated by J. C. Rolfe — biographies of Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian, spanning the dissolution of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, the convulsions of 69 CE, and the rise and fall of the Flavians.
Reading companion and full text of Livy's Ab Urbe Condita, Volume IX (Books 31–34), translated by Evan T. Sage — the Second Macedonian War, from Rome's declaration against Philip V through Flamininus's decisive victory at Cynoscephalae and the proclamation of Greek freedom at the Isthmian Games.
Reading companion and full text of Livy's Ab Urbe Condita, Volume X (Books 35–37), translated by Evan T. Sage — the war with Antiochus III, from the Seleucid king's intervention in Greece through the Roman victories at Thermopylae and Magnesia that expelled him from Europe and Asia Minor.
Reading companion and full text of Livy's Ab Urbe Condita, Volume XI (Books 38–39), translated by Evan T. Sage — the settlement of the Syrian War and Manlius Vulso's campaign in Galatia, followed by the celebrated senatorial investigation into the Bacchanalian conspiracy of 186 BCE.
Reading companion and full text of Livy's Ab Urbe Condita, Volume XII (Books 40–42), translated by Evan T. Sage and A. C. Schlesinger — the final years of Philip V, the accession of Perseus, and the opening moves of the Third Macedonian War.
Reading companion and full text of Livy's Ab Urbe Condita, Volume XIII (Books 43–45), translated by A. C. Schlesinger — the Third Macedonian War from its early campaigns through the decisive Battle of Pydna, the capture of Perseus, and the triumph of Lucius Aemilius Paullus, which ends both the war and the Macedonian monarchy.
Reading companion for Bellum Judaicum — Josephus's eyewitness account of the Jewish revolt against Rome and the destruction of the Second Temple.
Reading companion for the Annals of Tacitus, covering the Julio-Claudian dynasty from the death of Augustus to the reign of Nero.
Full text of Ammianus Marcellinus' Res Gestae in the Loeb Classical Library edition (vols. 300, 315, 331), translated by John C. Rolfe — the standard 20th-century English rendering of the last great Latin historian of Rome.
Reading companion and full text of Contra Galilaeos — Emperor Julian's philosophical polemic against Christianity, preserved in fragments through Cyril of Alexandria's rebuttal.
Edward Gibbon’s celebrated postscript to Chapter XXXVIII where he synthesizes the primary causes of Rome’s decay and reflects on the future of European civilization.
Chapter XVI of Edward Gibbon’s The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire examines the conduct of the Roman government toward the Christians from the reign of Nero to that of Constantine.
Chapter XV of Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire examines the progress of the Christian religion and the sentiments, manners, numbers, and condition of the primitive Christians.
The first volume of J.B. Bury's authoritative history of the Later Roman Empire, covering the reigns from the death of Theodosius I through the accession of Anastasius — an age of barbarian pressure, dynastic crisis, and the definitive parting of East and West.
The second volume of J.B. Bury's authoritative history of the Eastern Empire, covering the reigns of Anastasius, Justin I, and Justinian — including the great reconquests of Africa and Italy under Belisarius and Narses.