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.
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 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.
A survey of the Rise of the Roman Republic, focusing on the internal political struggles and the monumental shift from oligarchy to the rise of the Caesars.
Fustel de Coulanges's landmark study tracing the origins of Greek and Roman civic life to their religious foundations, arguing that the ancient city was shaped above all by sacred rites, ancestor worship, and the domestic hearth.