Latin Texts

Plautus, Menaechmi, Captivi; Casina; Persa; Pseudolus.

Terence, Eunuchus; Adelphoi; Hecyra.

Sallust, Bellum Jugurthinum; Coniuratio Catilinae.

Cicero, in Vatinium; pro Sulla; pro Sestio; pro Caelio; pro Milone.

Livy, Ab urbe condita, Books 21-30.

Horace, Satires; Epistles.

Petronius, Satyrica.

Seneca, De clementia; Apocolocyntosis; De brevitate vitae.

Martial, Epigrams, Books 5 and 8.

Juvenal, Satires.

Suetonius, Lives of the Twelve Caesars.

Tacitus, Agricola; Annals; Histories.

Apuleius, Metamorphoses.

Ammianus Marcellinus, Books 20-26.

Claudian, in Rufinum; in Eutropium; De bello Gothico.

Secondary literature

S. H. Braund, Beyond anger: a study of Juvenal’s third book of satires, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Erich Burck, Das Geschichtswerk des Titus Livius, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Verlag, 1992.

Elaine Fantham, Roman literary culture: from Cicero to Apuleius, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.

Kirk Freudenburg, Satires of Rome: threatening poses from Lucilius to Juvenal, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Holly Ann Haynes, The history of make-believe: Tacitus on imperial Rome, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.

Geraldine Herbert-Brown, Ovid and the Fasti: an historical study, New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Matthew Leigh, Comedy and the rise of Rome, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Richard C. Lounsbury, The arts of Suetonius: an introduction, Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1987.

Regina May, Apuleius and Drama: The Ass on Stage, New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Ellen O’Gorman, Irony and misreading in the Annals of Tacitus, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

K. F. C. Rose, The date and author of the Satyricon, Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1971.

N. Rudd, Themes in Roman satire, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1986.

A. N. Sherwin-White, The letters of Pliny: a historical and social commentary, Oxford: Clarendon Pr., 1966.

Nancy Shumate, Crisis and conversion in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996.

N. W. Slater, The theatre of the mind: metatheatre in Plautus, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981.

Niall W. Slater, Reading Petronius, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990.

John P. Sullivan, Martial: the unexpected classic: a literary and historical study, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Ann Vasaly, Representations: Images of the world in Ciceronian oratory, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.

A. Wallace-Hadrill, Suetonius: the scholar and his Caesars, New Haven: Yale Univ. Pr., 1984.

A. J. Woodman, Tacitus reviewed, New York: Oxford University Pr., 1998.

Greek Texts

Herodotus, The Histories, Books 2-5.

Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War.

Aristophanes, Ekklesiazusae; Knights; Frogs; Lysistrata; Acharnians.

Demosthenes, On the crown; Meidias; On the Peace; Olynthiacs.

Lysias, 1, 3, and 7.

Apollodorus, Neaira [=Ps.-Demosthenes, 51].

Menander, Dyskolos.

Xenophon, Agesilaos; Cyropaideia; Poroi.

Polybius, Histories.

Theocritus, Idylls.

Epictetus, Discourses.

Plutarch, Consolation to his wife; Advice to the bride and groom; on garrulity.

Dio Chrysostom, Discourses, 40-49.

Lucian, Alexander or the false prophet; Peregrinus; Anacharsis; The Ship; The Dream. Secondary literature

Robert B. Branham, Unruly eloquence: Lucian and the comedy of traditions, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1989.

K. J. Dover, Lysias and the corpus Lysiacum, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968.

Arthur M. Eckstein, Moral vision in the Histories of Polybius, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.

V. Ehrenberg, The people of Aristophanes: a sociology of Attic comedy, 2nd ed. rev. & enlarged, Oxford: Blackwell, 1951.

Edith Hall, Inventing the barbarian: Greek self-definition through tragedy, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989.

Debra Louise Hamel, Trying Neaira: the true story of a courtesan’s scandalous life in ancient Greece, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.

Simon Hornblower, Thucydides and Pindar: historical narrative and the world of epinikian poetry, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Steven Johnstone, Disputes and democracy: the consequences of litigation in ancient Athens, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999.

C. P. Jones, The Roman world of Dio Chrysostom, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1978.

A. A. Long, Epictetus: a Stoic and Socratic guide to life, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Clifford Orwin, The humanity of Thucydides, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994.

Mark Payne, Theocritus and the invention of fiction, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Sarah B. Pomeroy (ed.), Plutarch’s advice to the bride and groom, and a consolation to his wife, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Christopher Robinson, Lucian and his influence in Europe, London: Duckworth,1979.

Tim C. B. Rood, Thucydides: narrative and explanation, Oxford and New York: Clarendon Press, 1998. Yun Lee Too, The rhetoric of identity in Isocrates: text, power, pedagogy, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Ariana Traill, Women and the comic plot in Menander, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Tim Whitmarsh, Greek literature and the Roman Empire: the politics of imitation, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Ian Worthington (ed.), Demosthenes: statesman and orator, New York and London: Routledge, 2000.

John Zumbrunnen, Silence and democracy: Athenian politics in Thucydides’ history, University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008.