The History Book Club discussion

This is the thread which is the bibliography for THE OCTOBER HORSE #6 AND CAESAR AND CAESAR'S WOMEN (MASTER OF ROME - #5 AND #4).

This is also a spoiler thread.

by Colleen McCullough

by Colleen McCullough

by Thucydides

Young Brutus in Chapter One is reading Thucydides and is chided for it by his mother.

Of course, the classic source for this and previous books in the series is Plutarch's Lives. He covers the lives of Pompey, Crassus, Cicero, Caesar and others we have met. There are some online versions of this work, for instance at



by Plutarch

Yes, another terrific classic.

While I'm not aware of any books that deal specifically with the women we've met or are about to meet, here are two which deal with women in general in this period.

Women's Life in Greece and Rome: A Source Book in Translation is a compendium of ancient sources on women in many topics, e.g. Men's Opinions, Legal Status, Private Life, Occupations. Citations from Greek and Roman sources are interspersed.

Women in the Classical World: Image and Text deals first with Greece and then with Rome. There are many citations from original sources.

by Mary R. Lefkowitz (no photo)
by Elaine Fantham (no photo)

Much of Cicero's writings survived while that of many others has been lost. He published many of his legal arguments, both as prosecutor and defense counsel, he wrote many philosophical treatises, and most entertaining of all, many of his letters to his brother-in-law Atticus and to others of his friends have been preserved.



by Marcus Tullius Cicero

(to list just a few)

Cicero in Fiction

We know so much about Cicero that it's easy to base whole novels on his career. My favorite is Roman Blood, about Cicero's first murder trial defending a man called Roscius against the charge of parricide. He's helped by Gordianus the Finder in this first of the Roma Sub Rosa series.


Another in this series (Catilina's Riddle) deals with Cicero's accusations against Catilina for wanting to overthrow the government. The same events are covered from a different angle in SPQR II: The Catiline Conspiracy, part of the SPQR series of Roman mysteries.


Finally, Imperium and Conspirata are the first two in a planned trilogy about Cicero.

by Steven Saylor
by John Maddox Roberts
by Robert Harris

This book was probably key to to McCullough's research for this book. It covers the Jugurthine War and the Catiline Conspiracy.

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A masterpiece of dramatic narrative.

Sallust (86-c.35 B.C.), who had various public offices in Rome and later a governorship in Africa, supported the political group known as the populares. He was a friend of Caesar and an opponent of Cicero. His history of the war against Jugurtha, King of Numidia, and his account of Catiline's conspiracy in 63 B.C. are his only complete works to survive; they were written in the years after Caesar's assassination.

An English translation is available online here:



by Sallust

Great entries folks

Here's an interesting book about Clodius, probably the only place you can see him treated sympathetically - The Patrician Tribune: Publius Clodius Pulcher

from the 카지노싸이트 page -

Publius Clodius Pulcher was a prominent political figure during the last years of the Roman Republic. Born into an illustrious patrician family, his early career was sullied by military failures and especially by the scandal that resulted from his allegedly disguising himself as a woman in order to sneak into a forbidden religious ceremony in the hope of seducing Caesar's wife. Clodius survived this disgrace, however, and emerged as a major political force. He renounced his patrician status and was elected tribune of the people. As tribune, he pursued an ambitious legislative agenda, winning the loyalties of the common people of Rome to such a degree that he was soon able to summon forceful, even violent, demonstrations on his own behalf.
The first modern, comprehensive biography of Clodius, "The Patrician Tribune" traces his career from its earliest stages until its end in 52 B.C., when he was murdered by a political rival. Jeffrey Tatum explores Clodius's political successes, as well as the limitations of his popular strategies, within the broader context of Roman political practices. In the process, Tatum illuminates the relationship between the political contests of Rome's elite and the daily struggles of Rome's urban poor.

by W. Jeffrey Tatum (no photo)

Mithridates is covered in two interesting books. The oldest one is King of Pontus: The Story of Mithradates Eupator and a more recent one is The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy. Both cover his long and fascinating life, including his successful attempt to make himself immune to poisons.

by Adrienne Mayor
by Alfred Duggan

G wrote: "First Catiline Oration.



and the Gutenberg project link which is in Latin with a rather dense anecdotal translation.

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Thanks for these links, G.

The classical source of information about the Catiline conspiracy is by Sallust, Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War. This book contains two of Sallust's works. (The Jugurthine War was about about Rome's war against the Numidians from 111 to 105 BC.)

One version can be found online at
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by Sallust (no photo)

I recently received a copy of McCullough's bibliography from an online friend who got it in 1997. It's basically a listing of all the books in her extensive library of ancient history and is 37 pages long.

Biographies


(no image) Ancient Portraits in the J. Paul Getty Museum: Volume 1 by Jiri Frel

(no image) Who was who in the Roman world 753 BC- AD476 by Diana Bowder

(no image) Roman Historical Portraits by J.M.C. Toynbee

by Plutarch
(There are online versions of this work, one of which is here -
)

Antonius
(no image) Mark Antony, A Biography by Eleanor Goltz Huzar

Brutus
by M.L. Clarke

Caesar
(no image) The Life of Caesar by Guglielmo Ferrero

by Mattias Gelzer

by Michael Grant

(no image) Julius Caesar: eine Biographie by Eberhard Horst

(no image) Divus Julius by Stefan Weinstock

(no image) Julius Caesar and His Public Image by Zvi Yavetz

(no image) Julius Caesar: The Civil War Books I & II (Civil War by Julius Caesar

Cicero
by Elizabeth Rawson

by David Taylor

by Manfred Fuhrmann

by Christian Habicht

by Thomas N. Mitchell

Crassus
(no image) Marcus Crassus and the Late Roman Republic by Allen Mason Ward

Pompeius
(no image) Pompey the Great by John Leach

by Robin Seager

Augustus
by Augustus

(no image) The Image Of Augustus by Susan Walker

Cato
by Alan E. Astin

Cleopatra
by Arthur Weigall

Gracchi
by David Stockton

Hannibal
by Ernle Bradford

Sallust
by Ronald Syme

Seneca the Elder
by Janet Fairweather

Sulla
by Arthur Keaveney

Thanks, Vicki, this is great (and of course giving me too much to read)! Now I have to see if I can find the Toynbee book at my Library or used.

You're welcome, G. There's much more to come. And there are many books written since 1997 that won't even be in this list.

Histories of the Republic


by Naphtali Lewis and Reinhold Meyer

(no image) A History of Rome to A.D. 565 by William Gurnee Sinnigen and Arthur Edward Romilly Boak

by Michael Crawford

by Erich S. Gruen

(no image) The Roman Republic 3 Vols by William Emerton Heitland

by W.W. How

by Cyril E. Robinson

by Howard Hayes Scullard

by Howard Hayes Scullard

(no image) Roman Papers 2vols by Ronald Syme

by Ronald Syme

Law and Politics


by Frank Frost Abbott

by F.E. Adcock

by J.A. Crook

(no image) The moral and political tradition of Rome by Donald Earl

(no image) Personal Enmity in Roman Politics, 218-43 B.C by David F. Epstein

by Matthias Gelzer

by A.H.J. Greenidge

by K. Loewenstein

by Claude Nicolet

(no image) The Politics of Friendship: Pompey and Cicero by Beryl Rawson

by James Sabben-Clare

by E. S. Staveley

by Lily Ross Taylor

by Lily Ross Taylor

(no image) Religion and Statecraft Among the Romans by Alan Wardman

(no image) Rome Of The Xii Tables: Persons And Property by Alan Watson

by CH. Wirszubski

(no image) The Revolutions of Ancient Rome by F.R. Cowell

Social and Economic


by P.A. Brunt

by Moses I. Finley

(no image) Charities and Social Aid in Greece and Rome by A R Hands

(no image) The Roman Middle Class In The Republican Period by Herbert Hill

(no image) The Roman Economy: Studies In Ancient Economic And Administrative History by A.H.M. Jones

by Ramsay MacMullen

by Harold Mattingly

by Cyrenus Osborne Ward

by Kurt A. Raaflaub

Women


by J.P.V.D. Balsdon

(no image) The Roman Mother by Suzanne Dixon

by Jane F. Gardner

by Judith P. Hallett

by Mary R. Lefkowitz

by Sarah B. Pomeroy

by Sarah B. Pomeroy

by Beryl Rawson

Slavery

by Moses I. Finley

by Keith Hopkins

(no image) Slavery From Roman Times To The Early Transatlantic Trade by William John Phillips

(no image) Roman Slave Law by Alan Watson

by Thomas Wiedemann

by Keith R. Bradley

Vicki, for all of the titles where there is no bookcover, please type the word by in between the title which is in text and the author's link which is the author's name in text.

Religion


(no image) Phases in the Religion of Ancient Rome by Cyril Bailey

by Jesse Benedict Carter

by Kathleen Lines

by John Ferguson

(no image) The Delphic Oracle, Its Responses & Operations by Joseph Eddy Fontenrose

by James George Frazer

by Michael Grant

by Michael Grant

by Robert Graves

by H A. Guerber

by Keith Hopkins

(no image) Elysion: On Ancient Greek and Roman Beliefs Concerning a Life after Death by W.F. Jackson Knight

[bookcover:Healing Gods of Ancient Civilizations] by Walter Addison Jayne

by Robert Maxwell Ogilvie

(no image) Some Arval Brethren by Ronald Syme

(no image) Cybele and Attis by Maarten J. Vermaseren

Vicki, also when there is only a book cover and an author's link between the book cover and the author's name type in the word by and check if you have enough spacing by clicking on preview.

Good idea. I've gone back and inserted "by" in all the books. It does look better.

Ancient Sources - Latin

There are many editions of the following works, but McCullough used the Loeb Classical Library versions, so I will list those where possible. Loeb editions include the original language with the English translation on the facing page, very educational, if you're into that. Also, some Loeb works have more than one volume, and I will only list the first one in those cases.

by Ausonius
by Julius Caesar
by Julius Caesar
by Julius Caesar and Aulus Hirtius
by Marcus Porcius Cato
by Catullus
by Celsus
by Marcus Tullius Cicero
by Marcus Tullius Cicero
by Marcus Tullius Cicero
by Marcus Tullius Cicero
by Marcus Tullius Cicero
by Marcus Tullius Cicero
by Marcus Tullius Cicero
by Marcus Tullius Cicero
by Marcus Tullius Cicero
by Marcus Tullius Cicero
by Marcus Tullius Cicero
by Marcus Tullius Cicero
by Marcus Tullius Cicero
by Marcus Tullius Cicero
by Marcus Tullius Cicero
by Marcus Tullius Cicero
by Marcus Tullius Cicero
by Marcus Tullius Cicero
by Marcus Tullius Cicero
by Marcus Tullius Cicero
by Sextus Julius Frontinus
by Aulus Gellius
by Horace
by Horace
by Livy
by Lucan
by Lucretius
by Manilius

(more to come)

Ancient Sources - Latin, cont.


by Ovid
by Ovid
by Ovid
by Ovid
by Petronius and Seneca
by Pliny the Elder
by Pliny the Younger
by Prudentius
by Quintilian
by Ennius
by Sallust
by Various
by Suetonius
by Térence
by Térence
(no image) Apologetical Works; Octavius by Tertullian
(couldn't find the Loeb edition)

by Valerius Flaccus
by Marcus Terentius Varro
by Velleius Paterculus
(no image) The Eclogues, Georgics And Aeneid Of Virgil by Virgil
(couldn't find the Loeb edition)

by Vitruvius

Ancient Sources - Greek

As with the Latin editions, I'm only including the first volume; most works have multiple volumes.

by Appian
by Cassius Dio
by Diodorus Siculus
by Dionysius of Halicarnassus
by Galen
by Flavius Josephus
by Flavius Josephus
by Flavius Josephus
by Menander
by Arthur S. Hunt
by Plutarch
by Plutarch
by Polybius
by Strabo

Archaeology


by Pierre Grimal
by Richard KrautheimerRichard Krautheimer
by Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani
[bookcover:Remarks on the Antiquities of Rome and Its Environs Being a Classical and Topographical Survey of the Ruins of That Celebrated City] by Andrew Lumisden

(no image) Reconstructing The Past by Alan Sorrell

(no image) The Walls Of Rome by Malcolm Todd
by Victor Wolfgang von Hagen

Architecture


by Axel Boethius
by Seton Lloyd
by David Macaulay
by Donald S. Robertson
by Frank Sear
by J.B. Ward-Perkins

Art


by Pierre Amiet

(no image) The Art Of Rome by B. Andreae

(no image) Roman Art: A Modern Survey of the Art of Imperial Rome by George M. A. Hanfmann

(no image) Greek And Roman Jewellery by Reynold Alleyne Higgins

(no image) Roman Art by Donald Strong

Civilizations Other Than Rome - "Barbarians"


(no image) Jugoslavia Before the Roman Conquest by John H. Alexander

(no image) Les Empereurs Gaulois by Maurice Bouvier-Ajam

by Nora Chadwick

by Joy Chant

(no image) Rome And The Barbarians by Barry Cunliffe

(no image) Roman Gaul by J. F. Drinkwater

by Peter Berresford Ellis

by Ralph F. Hoddinott

by Stuart Piggott

by Anne Ross

(no image) Northern Barbarians, 100 BC-AD 300 by Malcolm Todd

Just keep them coming. This will be a great resource on the Romans in general as well as many other ancient sources. This will truly end up being a fabulous glossary.

Civilizations Other Than Rome - Egyptian


by Adolf Erman

(no image) Ptolemaic Alexandria by P. M. Fraser

(no image) Gods and Symbols of Ancient Egypt by Manfred Lurker

(no image) The Golden Age Of Alexandria: From Its Foundation By Alexander The Great In 331 Bc To Its Capture By The Arabs In 642 Ad by John Marlowe

by Joyce Milton

(no image) People of the Nile: A New Light on the Civilization of Ancient Egypt by John Romer

by E.A. Wallis Budge

by R.J. Unstead

Civilizations Other Than Rome - Etruscan


(no image) The Etruscans by Michael Grant

(no image) The Etruscans And The Survival Of Etruria by Christopher Hampton

(no image) Early Rome And The Etruscans by Robert Maxwell Ogilvie

(no image) The Etruscans by Massimo Pallottino

by Otto-Wilhelm Von Vacano

Civilizations Other Than Rome - Blacks


by Frank M. Snowden Jr.

by Lloyd A. Thompson

Civilizations Other Than Rome - Greek & Hellenistic


by F.E. Adcock

(no image) The Delphic Oracle, Its Responses & Operations by Joseph Eddy Fontenrose

by Michael Grant

(no image) Hellenistic Culture - Fusion and Diffusion by Moses Hadas

(no image) Homer And The Heroic Age by John Victor Luce

by F.E. Peters

by Edwyn Robert Bevan

by Peter Green

by Peter Green

by Waldemar Heckel

by G.E.M. De Ste. Croix

by Jonathan Rutland

Civilizations Other Than Rome - Jewish

by John R. Bartlett

(no image) Jews and Synagogues Venice-Florence-Rome-Leghorn by Umberto Fortis

by Flavius Josephus

by Yigael Yadin

by Louis Finkelstein and W. D. Davies

by Hayim Ben-Sasson

Civilizations Other Than Rome - Phoenician


by Gerhard Herm

(no image) The Life and Death of Carthage; A Survey of Punic History and Culture from Its Birth to the Final Tragedy by Gilbert Charles Picard

Coins


by Michael Crawford

(no image) Coins Of The Roman Republic In The British Museum by Herbert Appold Grueber

(no image) Historical Roman Coins by G. F. Hill

Education


(no image) Education In Ancient Rome: From The Elder Cato To The Younger Pliny by Stanley F. Bonner

(no image) A History Of Western Education by James Bowen

by Henri-Irénée Marrou

Histories of the Empire


by Naphtali Lewis

(no image) From Tiberius to the Antonines: A History of the Roman Empire : A.D. 14-192 (author unknown)

by Edward Gibbon

(no image) A History of the Roman World from 30 B.C. to A.D. 138 by Edward Togo Salmon

Industry, Technology & Trade


(no image) Commerce And Social Standing In Ancient Rome by John H. D'Arms

by O.A.W. Dilke

(no image) Sheep-Rearing and the Wool Trade in Italy During the Roman Period by Joan M. Frayn

(no image) Trade In The Ancient Economy by Peter Garnsey

(no image) Mining And Metallurgy In The Greek And Roman World by John Joseph Healy

(no image) Trade and Industry in Classical Greece by Robert John Hopper

by J. G. Landels

(no image) Cross-Channel Trade Between Gaul and Britain in the Pre-Roman Iron Age by Sarah Macready

(no image) Roman Crafts And Industries by Alan McWhirr

(no image) Trees and Timber in the Ancient Mediterranean World by Russell Meiggs

by Geoffrey Rickman

(no image) Studies in Ancient Mining and Metallurgy in South West Spain by Beno Rothenberg

(no image) Roman Stonecutter by G. C. Susini

(no image) Greek and Roman Technology by K.D. White

(no image) Textile Manufacture Roman Provinces by J. P. Wild

Life & Thought


by Apicius

by John Edwards

(no image) An introduction to the Roman world by Peter Arnott

(no image) The Roman Games by Roland Auguet

(no image) Historic Costume for the Stage by Lucy Barton

(no image) Roman Stage by William Beare

by John Boardman

by Jérôme Carcopino

by Jane Chisholm

(no image) The Roman Mind: Studies in the History of Thought from Cicero to Marcus Aurelius by M. L. Clarke

by Aidan Cockburn

by F.R. Cowell

by Edith Hamilton

(no image) Sport In Greece And Rome by Harold Arthur Harris

by Thomas Hope

(no image) The Art of Rhetoric in the Roman World, 300 B.C.-A.D. 300 by George Alexander Kennedy

by Otto Kiefer

(no image) Caesar Is Dead (novel) by Jack Lindsay

(no image) Rome For Sale (novel) by Jack Lindsay

(no image) Everyday Life in the Roman Empire by Joan Liversidge

by Alexander Gordon McKay

(no image) Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John S. Milne

by Claude Nicolet

by Robert Payne

by Elizabeth Rawson

by Paul Veyne

by Alan Wardman

by Henry Thompson Rowell

(no image) Roman Medicine by John Scarborough

(no image) The Elephant in the Greek & Roman World by Howard Hayes Scullard

(no image) Rome and the Romans: A Survey and Interpretation by Grant Showerman

(no image) The World the Romans Knew by Nigel Sitwell

by J.M.C. Toynbee

by J.M.C. Toynbee

by W. Warde Fowler

by K.D. White

by Andrew Wallace-Hadrill

(no image) Dining in a Classical Context by William Slater

by Giovanni Comotti

(no image) Markets And Fairs In Roman Italy: Their Social And Economic Importance From The Second Century Bc To The Third Century Ad by Joan M. Frayn

by Jane F. Gardner

by Pierre Grimal

by Erich S. Gruen

by G. Luck

(no image) Roman Comedy by Kenneth McLeish

by E. J. Owens

by Elizabeth Rawson

Literature


by W. Sidney Allen

by Eugene Ehrlich

by Homer

(novel) by Robert Graves

(no image) The Cambridge History of Classical Literature, Volume 2: Latin Literature by E.J. Kenney

(no image) Ribaldry of Rome by Jack Lindsay

(no image) Roman Literature And Society by Robert Maxwell Ogilvie

by Catullus

by Horace

by Horace

by Homer

by Petronius

by Menander

by Bailey D. R. Shackleton

by Robert K. Sherk

Military


(no image) Alesia by Jean Pierre Adam

(no image) Armies And Enemies Of Imperial Rome, 150 B.C. 600 A.D by Philip Barker

(no image) Roman Military Law by C. E. Brand

by Peter Connolly

(no image) Hannibal and the Enemies of Rome by Peter Connolly

(no image) The Roman Army by Peter Connolly

(no image) Republican Rome, The Army, And The Allies by Emilio Gabba

by William V. Harris

(no image) Warfare In The Ancient World by Richard Humble

(no image) Roman Forts Of The 1st And 2nd Centuries Ad In Britain And The German Provinces by Anne Johnson

(no image) The Military Decorations Of The Roman Army by Valerie A. Maxfield

(no image) Warriors and Seafarers by Anne Millard

by H. M. D. Parker

(no image) The Armour Of The Roman Legions by H. Russell Robinson

(no image) Trajan's Column And The Dacian Wars by Lino Rossi

by Michael Simkins

by Michael Simkins

by Hans Delbrück

by William Ledyard Rodgers

by John Warry

by George Ronald Watson

(no image) Roman Forts: An Illustrated Introduction To The Garrison Posts Of Roman Britain by Roger J.A. Wilson

Romans in Italy, the Provinces, and Other Places


(no image) Foreign Clientelae, 264-70 B.C by E. Badian

by E. Badian

(no image) Romans And Aliens by J.P.V.D. Balsdon

(no image) Rome and the Friendly King: The Character of the Client Kingship by David Braund

(no image) The Creation Of The Roman Frontier by Stephen L. Dyson

by Arthur Keaveney

(no image) Colonisation And Veteran Settlement In Italy, 47 14 B. C by Lawrence Keppie

by Ramsay MacMullen

by Fergus Millar

by Susan Raven

(no image) The Making of Roman Italy by Edward Togo Salmon

(no image) Roman Colonization Under The Republic by Edward Togo Salmon

(no image) Roman Crete: An Archaeological Survey And Gazetteer Of Late Hellenistic, Roman And Early Byzantine Crete by I.F. Sanders

by C.H.V. Sutherland

Ships


by Lionel Casson

by J.S. Morrison

(no image) Ships and Fleets of the Ancient Mediterranean by Jean Rougé

Reference Works






by M.I. Finley

by Richard J.A. Talbert

by Jim Cornell

by John Baines

(no image) Muir's Atlas of Ancient and Classical History by Ramsay Muir

by John Fleming

(no image) Roman Roads Of Europe by N. H. H Sitwell

(no image) Roman Historical Portraits by J. M. C Toynbee

by Theodor Mommsen

(no image) The Magistrates Of The Roman Republic by T. Robert S. Broughton

by Simon Hornblower

(no image) Sources for Roman History, 133-70 B. C. by A.H.J. Greenidge

by P.G.W. Glare

by D. P. Simpson

by James Noel Adams

(no image) Festivals & Ceremonies of the Roman Republic: Aspects of Greek & Roman Life by Howard Hayes Scullard