Ancient Rome : an anthology of sources /

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Other Authors:	Francese, Christopher (Translator, Editor), Smith, R. Scott, 1971- (Translator, Editor)
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Language:	English Latin
Published:	Indianapolis : Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., ; [2014] Indianapolis : Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., [2014] Indianapolis : [2014]
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Table of Contents:

Introduction
Maps
LITERARY TEXTS
Appian : "The civil wars"
Augustus : "The accomplishments of the deified Augustus"
Catullus : "Selected poems"
Cicero, M. : "In defense of Archias" ; "Letters"
Cicero, Q. : "Running for office : a handbook"
Epictetus : "Handbook of stoic philosophy"
Horace : "Satires" ; "Odes"
Juvenal : "Satires"
Livy : "The history of Rome from its foundation"
Lucretius : "On the nature of things"
Martial : "On the spectacles" ; "Epigrams"
Novatian : "On the spectacles"
Ovid : "The art of love" ; "Fasti" ; "Tristia"
Perpetua : "The martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicitas"
Petronius : "Trimalchio's dinner party"
Pliny the Younger : "Letters"
Plutarch : "The life of Marcus Cato" ; "The life of Aemilius Paulus"
Polybius : "Histories"
Quintilian : "The instruction of an orator"
Seneca the Younger : "Philosophical letters" ; "The ascension of the Pumpkinhead Claudius into heaven"
Sulpicia : "Elegies"
Valerius Maximus : "Memorable deeds and sayings"
Vergil : "Eclogues"
DOCUMENTARY SECTION
Inscriptions
I. Epitaphs and other documents about individuals
Persons of senatorial status
Persons of equestrian status
Town councilors (decurions)
Soldiers
Persons certainly or probably freeborn
Persons of unknown status
Persons of freed status
Slaves
II. Proclamations by and for emperors
III. Inscriptions relating to public works
IV. Documents relating to festivals, games, and shows
V. Prayers and dedications to gods
VI. Curse tablets (defixiones)
VII. Certificates of sacrifice from the Decian Persecution
Laws of the Twelve Tables
A Roman calendar : April
A Roman schoolbook (Colloquia monacensia)
Appendices
Roman naming conventions
Roman time-reckoning
Roman currency, weights, and measures
A list of Roman emperors to AD 337
Notes on the texts and translations
Glossary
Introduction
Maps
LITERARY TEXTS. Appian, "The civil wars : a) The crisis of the late republic, b) The problem of land and of Tiberius Gracchus, c) Spartacus and the great slave revolt"
Augustus, "The accomplishments of the deified Augustus"
Catullus, "Poems"
Cicero, "In defense of Archias," "Letters"
Quintus Cicero, "Running for office : a handbook"
Epictetus, "Handbook of stoic philosophy"
Horace, "Satires," "Odes"
Juvenal, "Satires"
Livy, "A history of Rome from its foundation"
Lucretius, "On the nature of things"
Martial, "On the spectacles," "Epigrams"
Novatian, "On the spectacles"
Ovid, "The art of love, Book 1," "Fasti," "Tristia"
Perpetua, "The martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicitas"
Petronius, "Trimalchio's dinner party"
Pliny the Younger, "Letters"
Plutarch, "The life of Marcus Cato" (whole), "The life of Aemilius Paulus" (excerpts)
Polybius, "Histories"
Quintilian, "The instruction of an orator"
Seneca, "Philosophical letters," "The ascension of Claudius the Pumpkinhead into heaven"
Sulpicia, "Elegies"
Valerius Maximus, "Memorable deeds and sayings"
Vergil, "Eclogue 1," "Eclogue 4"
DOCUMENTARY SECTION. Inscriptions
Laws of the twelve tables
A Roman calendar
A Roman schoolbook
APPENDICES. Roman names
Roman time-reckoning
Roman currency, weights and measures
A list of Roman emperors to 337 AD
Notes on the texts and translations
Literary authors
Documentary section
Contents note continued: H Dreams (7.2, 7.3, 7.5)
I. Miracles (8.1--3)
Vergil, Eclogues
1. God Gave Us These Carefree Days
4. This Glorious New Era Will Begin
DOCUMENTARY SECTION
Inscriptions
I. Epitaphs and Other Documents about Individuals
Persons of Senatorial Status
1. So-Called Praise of Turia
2. Aide to Augustus
3. Member of Julius Caesar's and Augustus' Inner Circle
4. Paelignian Senator
5. Lady of the Highest Nobility
6. Brother and Sister from the Age of Trajan
7. Death of a Young Girl
Persons of Equestrian Status
8. Young Equestrian
9. Graffito Mocking an Equestrian
10. Military Tribune
11. Imperial Procurator
12. Businessman and His Wife Who Achieved Equestrian Status
Town Councilors (Decurions)
13. Election Notices from Pompeii
14. Patron and Official from Ostia
15. Priest and Patron from Spain
16. Priestess and Patron from Spain
17. Kind Official from a Village in Gaul
18. Aedile and Duumvir from Germany
Soldiers
19. Legionary Soldier Serving in Britain
20. Aged Legionary Soldier
21. Legionary Trumpeter
22. Legionary Standard-Bearer
23. Legionary Cavalryman, the Captor of Decebalus
24. Gallic Cavalryman
25. Archer from Sidon Serving in Germany
26. Soldier in the Imperial Fleet
27. Centurion Who Came up Through the Ranks
28. Centurion on the Danube Frontier
29. Praetorian Guardsman
30. Decorated Praetorian Guardsman
31. Reservist of the Emperor
32. Member of the First Urban Cohort
33. Mounted Guardsman from the Reign of Hadrian
Persons Certainly or Probably Freeborn
34. Man Who Enjoyed His Wine
35. Father's Love for His Daughter
36. Exemplary Mother
37. Musician
38. Graveside Banquets in Honor of a Mother
39. Mother Who Lost Her Children
40. Young Wife
41. Loving Couple
42. Wife and Business Partner
43. Avid Ball Player
44. Wife Who Died in Childbirth
Persons of Unknown Status
45. Anonymous Infant
46. Anonymous Foster-Son
Persons of Freed Status
47. Family of a Swine Dealer
48. Seller of Goat-Skins
49. Freedman of a Slave Dealer
50. Freedman Murdered by His Slave
Slaves
51. Favorite Slave Girl
52. Fourteen-Year-Old Slave Who Died after Giving Birth
53. Short-Hand Writer
54. Scholarly Slave Boy
55. Twelve-Year-Old Gold Worker
56. Collars Worn by Recaptured Fugitive Slaves
II. Proclamations by and for Emperors
57. Oath of Loyalty to Augustus and His Family
58. Oath of Loyalty to Caligula Sworn by Residents of Aritium, Spain
59. Claudius' Speech to the Senate Concerning Admission of Gauls to the Senate
60. Senatorial Resolution Ratifying the Powers of the Emperor Vespasian
61. Vespasian's Letter to the Town Councilors of Sabora
62. Inscription on a Triumphal Arch in the Circus Maximus, Honoring Titus
63. Hadrian's Address to the Army at Lambaesis
III. Inscriptions Relating to Public Works
64. Aqueduct and Other Amenities for Aletrium
65. Walls and Towers Repaired at Private Expense
66. Wall for a City Square Financed by a Freedman
67. Streets Financed by a Governor
68. Streets Financed by a Group of Freedmen
69. Playing Field Financed by a Local Magistrate
70. Temple of Apollo Restored by a Local Magistrate
71. Wall around a Shrine Financed by a Woman
IV. Documents Relating to Festivals, Games, and Shows
72. Decree of Town Councilors Sponsoring Public Events as Part of Imperial Cult
73. Sponsor from Pompeii
74. Sponsor from Alife
75. Producer and Head of the Guild of Latin Mime Actors
76. Star Mime Actor
77. Epitaph of a Pantomime Dancer
78. Epitaph of a Pantomime Dancer
79. Epitaph of the Gladiator Flamma
80. Epitaph of the Gladiator Ajax
81. Epitaph of the Gladiator Exochus
82. Epitaph of the Gladiator Niger
83. Epitaph of the Gladiator Volusenus
84. Epitaph of the Gladiator Felix
85. Epitaph of the Gladiator Amabilis
86. Epitaph for Two Gladiators who Killed Each Other
87. Inscription Honoring Polynices the Charioteer
88. Inscription Honoring Diocles the Charioteer
V. Prayers and Dedications to Gods
89. Dedication of an Altar to Jupiter Optimus Maximus
90. Dedication of an Altar to' the Numen of Augustus
91. Prayer of Married Women to Juno
92. Votive Offering to Bona Dea
93. Altars near a Fort on Hadrian's Wall
VI. Curse Tablets (Defixiones)
94. Lead Curse Tablet from Chagnon, France
95. Lead Curse Tablet from Minturno, Italy
96. Lead Curse Tablet from Carthage
97. Illustrated Lead Curse Tablet from Carthage
VII. Certificates of Sacrifice from the Decian Persecution
98. Two Brothers and Their Wives
99. Priestess of the God Petesouchos
100. Inaris and Her Children
Laws of the Twelve Tables
Roman Calendar: April
Roman Schoolbook (Colloquia Monacensia)
Appendices
Roman Naming Conventions
Roman Time Reckoning
Roman Currency, Weights, and Measures
List of Roman Emperors to AD 337.
LITERARY TEXTS
Appian, The Civil Wars
A Crisis of the Late Republic (1.1--6)
B. Problem of Land and Tiberius Gracchus (1.7--16)
C. Spartacus and the Great Slave Revolt (1.116--120)
Augustus, The Accomplishments of the Deified Augustus
Catullus, Selected Poems
1
5
7
8
10
11
13
16
22
28
29
34
48
49
50
51
72
75
83
85
93
101
Cicero, M.
In Defense of Archias
Letters
1. July 65 BC, On His Candidacy for the Consulship (Ad Atticum 1.1)
2. July 65 BC, On the Birth of His Son (Ad Atticum 1.2)
3. January 25, 61 BC, On the Bona Dea Scandal (Ad Atticum 1.13)
4. Early July 61 BC, On the Trial of Clodius (Ad Atticum 1.16)
5. July 59 BC, On the First Triumvirate (Ad Atticum 2.19)
6. April 3, 58 BC, On the Law Relating to His Exile (Ad Atticum 3.4)
7. April 6, 58 BC, On His Exile (Ad Atticum 3.5)
8. April 30, 58 BC, To His Wife from Exile (Ad Familiares 14.4)
9. November 23, 57 BC, On the Gangs and Chaos in Rome (Ad Atticum 4.3)
10. October 16, 50 BC, From Athens, On the Looming Conflict! between Pompeius and Caesar (Ad Atticum 7.1)
11. January 24, 49 BC, On Caesar's March on Rome (Ad Familiares 14.18)
12. January 29, 49 BC, On Caesar's March on Rome (Ad Familiares 16.12)
13. Around March 5, 49 BC, Julius Caesar to Cicero, Asking Cicero to Stay in Rome (Ad Atticum 9.6A)
14. March 20, 49 BC, Cicero's Reply to Caesar, Stating His Obligation to Pompeius (Ad Atticum 9.11 A)
15. November 27, 48 BC, On His Post-War Position and the Death of Pompeius (Ad Atticum 11.6)
16. Mid-April 45 BC, On Tullia's Death (Ad Familiares 4.6)
17. December 45, On A Visit from Caesar (Ad Atticum 13.52)
18. April 44 BC, On Caesars Assassination and Its Aftermath (Ad Atticum 14.10)
19. September 44 BC, Urging Cassius to Return and Fight Antonius (Ad Familiares 12.2)
20. October 44 BC, On the Tyranny of Antonius (Ad Familiares 12.3)
21. April 23, 43 BC, On the Defeat of Antonius at Forum Gallorum (Ad Brutum 1.3)
22. April 43 BC, On the Defeat of Antonius at Mutina (Ad Brutum 1.3A)
23. July 43, On the Voting in the Senate of Honors to Octavian and Penalties for Antonius (Ad Brutum 1.15)
Cicero, Q., Running for Office: A Handbook
Epictetus, A Handbook of Stoic Philosophy
Horace
Satires
1.5. Journey to Brundisium
1.6. On Ambition and Noble Birth
1.9. Pest
Odes
1.1. To Maecenas
1.2. To Augustus
1.3. To Vergil
1.4. To Sestius
1.8. To Lydia
1.9. To Thaliarchus
1.11. To Leuconoe
1.37. Fall of Cleopatra
3.2. Meaning of Virtus
3.6. Plea to the Romans
3.30. Poetic Immortality
Juvenal, Satires
1. Why I Write
3. Umbricius Leaves Rome in Disgust
Livy, The History of Rome from Its Foundation
A. Preface
B. From Aeneas to the Foundation of Rome (1.1--7)
C. Reign of Romulus (1.8--17)
D. Reign of Numa (1.18--21)
E. Reign of Tarquinius Priscus (1.34--40)
F. Reign of Servius Tullius (1.41--48)
G. Reign of Tarquinius Superbus (1.49--60)
Lucretius, On the Nature of Things
A. Epicureanism and the Concept of Atoms (1.1--264)
B. Freedom from Pain and Worry (2.1--124), The Swerve and Free Will (2.216--93)
C. Gods Are Far Removed from Our World (2.570--660)
D. Mind and Body Are Inseparable; Death Is Not to Be Feared (3.784--1094)
Martial
On the Spectacles
1. Colosseum Outshines All the Wonders of the World (Spectacles, 1)
2. Spectacular Execution (Spectacles, 9)
3. Beast-Fighter (Spectacles, 17)
4. Trained Elephant (Spectacles, 20)
5. Tame Tigress Made Savage (Spectacles, 21)
6. Sea-Battle in the Colosseum (Spectacles, 27)
7. Synchronized Swimming (Spectacles, 30)
8. Gladiators Fight to a Draw (Spectacles, 31)
Epigrams
9. To My Readers (Book 1, preface)
10. Book Addresses Its Reader (Epigrams, 1.1)
11. Sexual Exhibitionist (Epigrams, 1.34)
12. Doctor (Epigrams, 1.47)
13. Neighbor Never Seen (Epigrams, 1.86)
14. Hard on the Outside, Soft on the Inside (Epigrams, 1.96)
15. Desperate for a Dinner Invitation (Epigrams, 2.11)
16. Client's Client (Epigrams, 2.18)
17. Eager Supporter (Epigrams, 2.27)
18. Outside Doesn't Match the Inside (Epigrams, 2.36)
19. Cruel Master (Epigrams, 2.82)
20. Dinner Replaces Handouts (Epigrams, 3.7)
21. Corpse at Dinner (Epigrams, 3.12)
22. Hopes and Dreams of a Life in Rome (Epigrams, 3.38)
23. Man to Be Avoided (Epigrams, 3.44)
24. Perfume (Epigrams, 3.55)
25. Unequal Dinner Party (Epigrams, 3.60)
26. Elegant Man (Epigrams, 3.63)
27. Boy Lover Grows Up (Epigrams, 4.7)
28. Day in Imperial Rome (Epigrams, 4.8)
29. Rich Atheist (Epigrams, 4.21)
30. Urban Villa (Epigrams, 4.64)
31. Mystery in the Country (Epigrams, 4.66)
32. Roman Girls Never Say No (Epigrams, 4.71)
33. Epitaph for a Slave Girl (Epigrams, 5.34)
34. Escaping the Salutatio (Epigrams, 7.39)
35. Troubling Dreams (Epigrams, 7.54)
36. Effeminate Husband (Epigrams, 7.58)
37. Clearing the Streets (Epigrams, 7.61)
38. Rich Wives in Charge (Epigrams, 8.12)
39. Punishing a Cook (Epigrams, 8.23)
40. Diminishing Gifts for Saturnalia (Epigrams, 8.71)
41. Way to Stay Young (Epigrams, 8.79)
42. Loud Schoolmaster (Epigrams, 9.68)
43. Gold-Digging (Epigrams, 10.8)
44. Ungenerous Friend (Epigrams, 10.15)
45. Good Life (Epigrams, 10.47)
46. Poet Must Eat (Epigrams, 11.24)
47. Paedagogus (Epigrams, 11.39)
48. Impoverished Philosopher (Epigrams, 11.56)
49. German War-Captive (Epigrams, 11.96)
50. Prudish Wife and Her Adventurous Husband (Epigrams, 11.104)
Novatian, On the Spectacles
Ovid
Art of Love, Book 1
Fasti, April 21
Tristia 4.10
Perpetua, The Passion of Perpetua and Felicitas
Petronius, Trimalchio's Dinner Party
Pliny the Younger, Letters
1. False Activity and Authentic Leisure (1.9)
2. Long and Short Speeches (1.20)
3. Status-Grading at Dinner Parties (2.6)
4. Solicitation of Electoral Support (2.9)
5. Dramatic Trial in the Senate (2.11)
6. Legacy Hunting (2.20)
7. Choosing a Teacher (3.3)
8. Writings and Amazing Energy of Pliny the Elder (3.5)
9. Character of a Philosopher (3.11)
10. Farm Estate and Its Tenant-Farmers (3.19)
11. Hiring a Teacher for Comum (4.13)
12. On His New Wife (4.19)
13. Death of Fundanus' Daughter (5.16)
14. Freedman Comic Actor (5.19)
15. Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius and the Death of Pliny the Elder (6.16)
16. Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius as Seen from Misenum (6.20)
17. Mysterious Disappearance (6.25)
18. Roman Lady and Her Pantomime Troupe (7.24)
19. Worship of an Italian River God (8.8)
20. On His Wife's Miscarriage (8.10)
21. Grief over Dying Slaves (8.16)
22. Advice to a Provincial Governor (9.5)
23. On Not Going to the Races (9.6)
24. Entertainments at Dinner (9.17)
25. Hopeless Debt among Tenant-Farmers (9.37)
26. Rebuilding a Rural Temple (9.39)
27. Financing a New Public Bath Building (10.23, Pliny to the Emperor Trajan)
28. Reply (Trajan to Pliny, 10.24)
29. On the Treatment of Convicts (10.31, Pliny to Trajan)
30. Reply (10.32, Trajan to Pliny)
31. On the Status of Exposed Children Raised in Slavery (10.65, Pliny to Trajan)
32. Reply (10.66, Trajan to Pliny)
33. How to Conduct Trials of Christians (10.96, Pliny to Trajan)
34. Reply (10.97, Trajan to Pliny)
Plutarch
Life of Cato the Elder
Life of Aemilius Paullus (chs. 26--34)
Polybius, Histories
A. Roman Constitution (6.11--18)
B. Roman Army (6.19--26)
C. Roman Camp (6.26--42)
D. Roman Funerals (6.53--54)
Quintilian, The Instruction of an Orator
Letter to the Bookseller
A. Intellectual Capacity (1.1.1--3)
B. First Instruction (1.1.4--14)
C. Alphabet (1.1.24--29)
D. Home-Schooling vs.
"Public" Education (1.2.1--29)
E Classroom Management (1.3.6--13)
F. Corporal Punishment (1.3.14--18)
G. Language Study under the Grammaticus (1.4.1--5)
H. Training under the Teacher of Public Speaking (Rhetor) (2.1.1--13)
Seneca The Younger
Philosophical Letters
1. What Matters Is on the Inside (Epistulae Morales 5)
2. Avoid the Crowd (EM 7)
3. Self-Examination (EM 27)
4. On the Humane Treatment of Slaves (EM 47)
5. Sin City: Baiae and Its Harmful Ways (EM 51)
6. Vatia's Villa, or, A Life Not Worth Living (EM 55)
7. Living above a Bathhouse (EM 56)
8. Nature Requires Little, Humans Much (EM 60)
9. Stop Wasting Time (EM 62)
10. On the Liberal Arts (EM 88)
Ascension of the Pumpkinhead Claudius into Heaven
Sulpicia, Elegies
1. Love That Should Be Talked About (Corpus Tibullianum, 3.13)
2. Rotten Birthday in the Country (3.14)
3. Unexpected Surprise (3.15)
4. Cheating Lover (3.16)
5. Hard-Hearted Lover (3.17)
6. Lover's Mistake (3.18)
Valerius Maximus, Memorable Deeds and Sayings
Preface
A. General Organization of Roman Religion (1.1)
B. Religious Procedure (1.3--4, 1.6, 1.8, 1.10)
C. Retribution of the Gods (1.14, 1.19)
D. Foreign Superstitions (3.3)
E. Importance of the Auspices (4.2, 4.3, 4.6)
F. Omens (Chance Utterances) (5.1, 5.3, 5.7)
G. Prodigies (Unhatural Occurances) (6.1, 6.9, 6.11--13)

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