1 Earliest Rome

Paul, Opinions: this work, compiled at the turn of the third and fourth centuries
A.D., condensed and updated the work of the jurist Paul, who was active in
the early third century A.D.
Petronius, Satyricon: Latin picaresque novel, middle of the first century A.D.
(Loeb; Penguin)
Philo, Embassy to Gaius: pamphlet written in Greek by Alexandrian Jew c. A.D.
41 on the persecution of the Jews by the emperor Gaius (Loeb)
Phlegon of Tralles, On Wonders: treatise on Greek and Roman physical marvels
and portents, written in Greek c. A.D. 117—38 (W. Hansen, Exeter, 1996).
Plautus, Amphitryo: Roman comedy, c. 195 B.C.; Little Carthaginian, 188/7 B.C.
(Loeb; Penguin)
Pliny [the Elder], Natural History:Latin encyclopaedia, completed A.D. 77-8
(Loeb)
Pliny [the Younger], Letters: correspondence in Latin by nephew of the author of
the Natural History; Books I—IX are literary letters; Book x is his official
correspondence with the emperor Trajan, published after his death c. A.D.
110 (Loeb; Penguin)
Plutarch, Paralkl Lives: 22 pairs of biographies, each combining a Greek and a
Roman life, written in Greek c. A.D. 96-c. A.D. 120 (Loeb; partly in
Penguin); Roman Questions: antiquarian discussion of Roman practices,
written in Greek c. A.D. 96-120 (Loeb; H.J. Rose, Oxford 1924)
Polybius, The Histories: Greek history of Rome's expansion 220-146 B.C.,
published from c. 150 B.C. (Loeb; Penguin)
Porphyry, Life ofPlotinus: Greek biography of philosopher, A.D. 301 (Loeb
Plotinus I; Plotinus, The Enneads, tr. S. MacKenna, 4th edn, London
1969); On Abstinence from Animal Foods: Greek treatise arguing for
vegetarianism, published in early A.D. 270s (T. Taylor, London 1965); On
the Cave of the Nymphs in the Odyssey: Greek allegorical interpretation of
Homer, written in the second half of the third century A.D. (Arethusa
Monograph 1, 1969; R. Lamberton, Barrytown, NY 1983)
Prudentius, Crowns of Martyrdom: fourteen Latin poems on Christian martyrs,
perhaps completed by A.D. 405 (Loeb; FC)
Quintilian, Education of an Orator: Latin treatise on rhetorical training, late first
century A.D. (Loeb)
Rutilius Namatianus, On his Return: Christian Latin poem describing the
author's journey from Rome to his native Gaul in A.D. 417 (Loeb 'Minor
Latin Poets')
Seneca, On Superstition: philosophical denunciation of superstition, middle of
the first century A.D., known to us mainly from its use in Augustine's City
of God; Pumpkinification of Claudius: Latin satire on the apotheosis of
Claudius, c. A.D. 55 (Loeb (same vol. as Petronius); Penguin)
Servius, On Virgil's Aeneid: Latin commentary on the poem, probably early fifth
century A.D.
Sibylline Oracles: twelve Greek 'prophetic' poems of mainly imperial date (M. S.
Terry, New York 1890; J. H. Charlesworth (ed.), The Old Testament
Pseudepigrapha (London 1983) I. 317-472)
Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars: biographies of emperors from Julius Caesar to
Domitian, written in Latin c. A.D. 115-30 (Loeb; Penguin)
Tacitus, Annals: Latin history of Rome from A.D. 14—68, written c. A.D. 110—20;