Biographies & Memoirs

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Apuleius, The Golden Ass

Arrian, History of Alexander

Athenaeus, Banquet of the Learned (The Deipnosophists)

Augustus (Octavian), Res Gestae Divi Augustus

Aulus Gelius, Attic Nights

Catullus, Poems

Cicero, Tusculum Disputations, Letters to Atticus, Letters to Friends, Quintilianus, On the Consular Provinces, On the Nature of the Gods, Philippics, Pro Sestio, “Speech Before the Senate on His Return from Exile,” et al.

Dio Cassius, Roman History

Diodorus Sicculus, History

Florus, Epitome of Roman History

Herodotus, History

Horace, Odes and Epodes

Josephus, Antiquities, Wars of the Jews

Julius Caesar, The Gallic Wars, The Civil Wars

Livy, History of Rome

Lucan, Pharsalia

Macrobius, Saturnalia

Martial, Poems

Ovid, Art of Love, Amores

Pliny the Elder, Natural History

Plutarch’s Lives, in particular those of Antony, Julius Caesar, Pompey, Brutus, Cato the Younger, Demetrius and Alexander

Sallust, Conspiracy of Catiline

Seneca the Elder, Suasoriae

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Velleius Paterculus, History of Rome

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