Republic

First page of Vat. lat. 5757, a palimpsest manuscript from Bobbio

De Re Publica

Reading companion and full text of Cicero's De Re Publica (On the Republic), translated by Clinton W. Keyes — a dialogue in six books examining the best form of government, the nature of justice, and the duties of the ideal statesman, culminating in the celebrated Dream of Scipio.

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.