Happy Birthday to the city of Rome!
Here is what students (and teachers and adults) read in Old Western Culture: The Romans
Old Western Culture: The Romans.
The Old Western Culture Reader Series, now available in Casebound Hardback in addition to paperback:
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Vol. 5: THE AENEID
- The Aeneid by Vergil
- Metamorphoses (selections) by Ovid
- De Rerum Natura by Lucretius
- Pharsalia by Lucanus
- Thebaid by Publius Papinius Statius
Vol. 6: THE HISTORIANS
- History of Rome, by Livy
- The War of the Jugurtha, by Sallust
- The War with Catiline, by Sallust
- The Gallic Wars, by Julius Caesar
- The Annals, by Tacitus
- Lives, by Plutarch
- Verres, Antony, and On Duties, by Cicero
- The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, by Suetonius
- Correspondence, by Pliny & Trajan
- Institutes of Oratory, by Quintillian
Vol. 7: EARLY CHRISTIANITY
- The Didache by Unknown
- First Epistle of Clement by Clement of Rome
- The Letters of Ignatius by Ignatius
- Letter to the Philipians by Polycarp
- A Plea to the Philipians by Athenagoras
- Epistle to Diognetus by Unkown
- The First Apology by Justin Martyr
- Against Heresies by Irenaeus
- Exhortation to the Greeks by Clement of Alexandria
- History of the Church by Eusebius
Vol. 8: NICENE CHRISTIANITY
- On the Incarnation by Athanasius
- The Life of St. Anthony by Athanasius
- Paschal Homily by John Chrysostom
- Baptismal Instructions by John Chrysostom
- On the Holy Spirit by Basil the Great
- Funeral Oration by Gregory Nazienzen
- Confessions by Augustine
- The City of God (selections) by Augustine
- The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius
Romulus founded the city of Rome on this date in 753 BC! 🏛️
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