Ancient Roman Civilization and Latin Literature Reading List in English Translation - Compiled by Savvy Mom Ruth Paget
Understanding
ancient Roman society and civilization is important in the United States,
because our government institutions are based on those of Republican Rome and
not Imperial Rome.
Latin schools are often located in large cities in the US as training grounds for future lawyers. They all have mock jury as a club and US government study clubs like Close-Up, which is sponsored by the US Congress.
Latin schools are often located in large cities in the US as training grounds for future lawyers. They all have mock jury as a club and US government study clubs like Close-Up, which is sponsored by the US Congress.
The
ancient Romans produced much literature about administering and maintaining
good government, legal rhetoric, science, plays, and literature.
Reviews
and interpretations of these books can be found on library literature
databases, publisher’s websites (Oxford University Press notably), and
Goodreads (an Amazon subsidiary company).
I
put together a list of books on ancient Roman Civilization below that is
divided into the following categories in no particular order of preference:
History:
-The
Rise of Rome by Livy
-Agricola
and Germania by Tacitus
-The
Twelve Caesars by Suetonius
-The
Conquest of Gaul by Julius Caesar
-The
War with Hannibal by Livy
-The
Fall of the Roman Republic: Six Lives by Plutarch
-Histories
by Tacitus
-Makers
of Rome: Nine Lives – Coriolanus, Fabius Maximus, Marcellus, Cato the Elder,
Tiberius Gracchus, Gaius Gracchus, Sertorious, Brutus, Marc Anthony, and Julius
Caesar by Plutarch
-The
Early History of Rome by Livy
-The
Rise of the Roman Empire by Polybius
-The
Rise and Fall of Athens (Theseus, Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon,
Pericles, Nicius, Alcibiades, and Lysander) by Plutarch
-The
Age of Alexander: Nine Greek Lives: (Agesilaus, Pelopidas, Dion, Timoleon,
Demosthenes, Phocion, Alexander, Demetriusm, and Pyrrhus) by Plutarch
-On
Sparta by Plutarch
-The
Life of Alexander the Great by Plutarch
-The
Annals of Ancient Rome by Tacitus
-The
Civil Wars by Appian
-The
Civil War by Gaius Julius Caesar
-The
Later Roman Empire by Ammanius Marcellinus
-The
Essential Writings of Flavius Josephus
-The
Roman History: The Reign of Augustus by Cassius Dio
-The
Letters of the Younger Pliny by Pliny the Younger
Literature
and Mythology
-Metamorphoses
by Ovid
-Odes
by Horace
-Georgics
by Virgil
-The
Complete Poems by Catallus
-The
Sixteen Satires by Juvenal
-The
Comedies: Volume 1 – 4 by Plautus
-The
Biographies of Hercules, Troades, Phoenissue, Medea, Phaedra, Oedipus,
Thyestes, Hercules, Oetaneus, Fabula Praetesta by Seneca
-The
Aeneid by Virgil
-Theogeny
– Works and Days by Hesiod
-The
Library of Greek Mythology by Appollodorus
Rhetoric
and Law
-Selected
Works by Cicero
-On
Obligations by Cicero
-Murder
Trials by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Science
and Philosophy
-Natural
History by Pliny
-Meditations
by Marcus Aurelius
-On
the Nature of the Universe by Lucretius
-Meditations
by Marcus Aurelius
-The
Niomachean Ethics by Aristotle
-Selected
Political Speeches by Cicero
-Letters
from a Stoic by Seneca
-The
Satyricon by Petronius
-The
Essential Writings by Epictetus
-On
the Republic – On the Laws by Cicero
Happy
Reading!!
By
Ruth Paget, author of Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France
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