General Histories.
Smith: Smaller History of Rome.
Merivale: Students’ History of Rome.
Yonge: Young Folks’ History of Rome.
Creighton: History of Rome.
For the period preceding the Empire—
Mommsen: History of Rome (4 vols.).
Abbott: The History of Romulus.
Church: Stories from Virgil.
—— Stories from Livy.
Macaulay: Horatius (poem in “Lays of Ancient Rome”).
Arnold: History of Rome.
Ihne: Early Rome.
Shakspeare: The Tragedy of Coriolanus (490 B.C.).
Macaulay: Virginia (poem in “Lays of Ancient Rome,” 459 B.C.).
Abbott: The History of Hannibal.
Smith: Rome and Carthage.
Dale: Regulus before the Senate (poem, 256 B.C.).
Beesly: The Gracchi, Marius, and Sulla.
Mrs. Mitchell: Spartacus to the Gladiators (poem, 73 B.C.).
For the period of the Cæsars and the early Empire—
Merivale: History of the Romans (4 vols.).
—— The Roman Triumvirates.
Abbott: The History of Julius Cæsar.
Addison: The Tragedy of Cato (drama).
Froude: Cæsar; a Sketch.
Trollope: Life of Cicero.
Ben Jonson: Catiline (drama).
Beaumont and Fletcher: The False One (drama).
Abbott: The History of Cleopatra.
Shakspeare: The Tragedy of Julius Cæsar.
—— Antony and Cleopatra.
Capes: The Early Empire.
De Quincey: The Cæsars.
Ben Jonson: The Poetaster (drama, time of Augustus).
Wallace: Ben Hur (romance, time of Tiberius).
Longfellow: The Divine Tragedy (poem).
Ben Jonson: Sejanus, his Fall (drama, time of Tiberius).
Becker: Gallus (romance, with notes, time of Tiberius).
Schele De Vere: The Great Empress (romance, time of Nero).
Abbott: The History of Nero.
W. W. Story: Nero (drama).
Hoffman: The Greek Maid at the Court of Nero (romance).
Farrar: Seekers after God (Seneca, Epictetus).
Wiseman: The Church of the Catacombs (romance, time of the Persecutions).
Mrs. Charles: The Victory of the Vanquished (romance).
Church and Brodribb: Pliny’s Letters (Ancient Classics).
Bulwer: The Last Days of Pompeii (romance, time of Vespasian).
Massinger: The Roman Actor (drama, time of Domitian).
—— The Virgin Martyr (drama).
Dickinson: The Seed of the Church.
De Mille: Helena’s Household.
Lockhart: Valerius.
The last three works are romances, depicting life and manners in the time of Trajan.
For the period of the later Empire and the decline of the Roman power—
Curteis: History of the Roman Empire (395-800).
Gibbon: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
Ebers: The Emperor (romance, time of Hadrian).
Capes: The Age of the Antonines.
Watson: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus.
Hodgkin: Italy and her Invaders.
William Ware: Zenobia (romance, A.D. 266).
—— Aurelian (romance, A.D. 275).
Ebers: Homo Sum (romance, A.D. 330).
Kouns: Arius the Libyan (romance, A.D. 336).
Aubrey De Vere: Julian the Apostate (drama, A.D. 363).
Beaumont and Fletcher: Valentinian (drama, A.D. 375).
Edward Everett: Alaric the Visigoth; and Mrs. Hemans: Alaric in Italy (poems, A.D. 410).
Kingsley: Hypatia (romance, A.D. 415).
Mrs. Charles: Conquering and to Conquer (romance, A.D. 418).
Mrs. Charles: Maid and Cleon (romance of Alexandria, A.D. 425).
Kingsley: Roman and Teuton.
Church: The Beginning of the Middle Ages.