Hellenistic World

PSI Inv. 6 recto: a second-century CE papyrus fragment preserving the opening of Diodorus's Bibliotheca Historica (I.1.5–11) — among the earliest surviving manuscript witnesses to the work, almost certainly from the first column of the roll. LDAB 10472; MP³ 342.01.

Bibliotheca Historica

Reading companion for Diodorus Siculus's Bibliotheca Historica — the most ambitious universal history to survive from antiquity, the sole continuous Greek narrative of the wars of the Diadochi, and the largest single repository of lost Hellenistic historiography.

Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek, Msc.Class.35, fol. 128r — opening of Livy Book 31, Caroline minuscule, medieval

Ab Urbe Condita, Volume IX: Books 31–34

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.

Privilegium page of the 1519 Editio Moguntina of Livy, imperial privilege granted by Maximilian I to Johannes Scheffer of Mainz — Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich, Res/2 A.lat.b. 422

Ab Urbe Condita, Volume X: Books 35–37

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.

Vat. gr. 124, f. 1r. Opening of Polybius, Histories Book I, with ornamental title panel (ΠΟΛΥΒΙΟΥ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΩΝ Α) and decorated initial. Constantinople, 10th century. Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.

Histories

Reading companion for the Histories of Polybius, covering Rome's rise to Mediterranean dominance from the First Punic War to the destruction of Carthage.