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Day 10, The Third Story

In The Decameron

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Giovanni Boccaccio

The Decameron (subtitle: Prencipe Galeotto) is a collection of 100 novellas by Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio, probably begun in 1350 and…

Bk 02: How They Took the City, pt 1

In The Aeneid

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Publius Vergilius Maro and Virgil

The Aeneid is a Latin epic written by Virgil in the 1st century BC that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy,…

Introduction pt 1

In The Republic

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Plato

The Republic is a Socratic dialogue by Plato, written in approximately 380 BC. It is one of the most influential works of philosophy and pol…

Book 08

In The Odyssey

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Homer, transl. Samuel Butler and Homer

The Odyssey is one of the two major ancient Greek epic poems (the other being the Iliad), attributed to the poet Homer. The poem is commonly…

Discourse III: Upon Caesar the Dictator

In The Works of Tacitus, Vol. I

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Tacitus, ed. Thomas Gordon and Publius Cornelius Tacitus

The historical works of Tacitus are a history of the period from A.D. 14 to 96 in thirty volumes. Although many of the works were lost (only…

Ch 07: Provincial Administration under Augustus: The Eastern Provinces (27 B.C.…

In The Students’ Roman Empire part 1, A History of the Roman Empire from Its Found…

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John Bagnell Bury

The writings of J. B. Bury, on subjects ranging from ancient Greece to the 19th-century papacy, are at once scholarly and accessible to the …

Book 02 pt 01

In From the Foundation of the City Vol. 01

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Titus Livius

Ab urbe condita, is a monumental history of ancient Rome written in the Latin language by Titus Livius(Livy), an ancient Roman historian. Th…

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