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Recommended Primary Sources

• Plutarch: The Training of Children, c. 110 CE
• Sources for Three Slave Revolts
• The Roman Candidate, c. 64 & 54 BCE
• Suetonius: The Lives of the Caesars—The Deified Julius

The Rise of Rome, 753 - 265 BC

Texts:

• Livy: Selections from Books 1 and 2
• Reports of the Etruscans, c. 430 BCE-10 CE
• Polybius: Rome at the End of the Punic Wars
• The Twelve Tables, c. 450 BCE
• Livy: The Roman Way of Declaring War, c. 650 BCE

Image:

• The Capitoline Wolf

Family Life and City Life

Texts:

• Inscriptions from Pompeii
• Macrobius: Saturnalia Convivia, III.13: The Bill of Fare of a Great Roman Banquet, 63 BCE

Image:

• The Roman Forum

Expansion and Transformation, 265 - 133 BC

Texts:

• Valerius Maximus and Livy on Roman Soldiers
• Polybius: The Destruction of Corinth, 146 BCE
• Polybius: The Third Punic War, 149-146 BCE
• Mithridates and the Roman Conquests in the East, 90-61 BCE

The Hellenizing of the Republic

Text:

• Cicero: The Second Speech of Marcus Tullius Cicero against Marcus Antonius

Images:

• Roman Art and Architecture
• The Pantheon
• Bust of Cicero

The Twilight of the Republic, 133 - 44 BC

Texts:

• Plutarch: Tiberius Gracchus
• Plutarch: Caius Gracchus
• Sallust: Life in Rome of the Late Republic, c. 63 BCE
• Plutarch: Caius Marius
• Plutarch: Sylla
• Plutarch: Pompey
• Plutarch: The Assassination of Julius Caesar

Images:

• Bust of Julius Caesar
• Coin of Marcus Junius Brutus
• Coin of Ides of March