ZENOBIA PRIMARY SOURCES
FOR DIVERSITY IN THE CLASSICAL WORLD

Primary
Sources and Links to On-Line
Texts
GREEKS AND AFRICANS:
The Lyricists (writers who are either from or write about the Near East)
Alcman
Archilochus
Callinus
Mimnermus
Sappho
Alcaeus
Ibycus
Xenophanes
Hipponax
Aeschylus: Persae
Euripides: Hecuba, Phoenissae
Herodotus: Books 1, 3, 5-9
Thucydides: Book 1.1-17, 89-117; Book 8
Isocrates: Panegyricus; To Philip; Nicocles; To Nicocles
Polybius: Selections on Affairs in the Near/ Middle East
Arrian: The Campaigns of Alexander
Plutarch: Life of Artaxerxes
ROME AND AFRICA:
Plautus: Poenulus; Rudens
Terence: passim
Sallust: Bellum Iugurthinum
Livy: Books 21-30
Vergil: Aeneid 1-4
Horace: Odes 1.37
Ovid: Metamorphoses 13 ( on Memnon)
Pliny the Elder: Natural History, Books 5 and 7
Juvenal: Sat. 15
Apuleius: passim
Augustine: passim
ROME AND THE NEAR & MIDDLE EAST:
Tacitus: Selections from the Annales (on Parthia, Armenia, Judaea, etc.)
Flavius Josephus: Bellum Iudaicum
Ammianus Marcellinus: Selections on Rome's wars with Persia
ROME AND SPAIN:
De Bello Hispaniensi (under Caesar's name)
Pliny the Elder, Natural History, Book 3
Seneca: passim
Martial: passim
Quintilian: passim
ANTIQUITY, INDIA, AND THE FAR EAST:
Arrian: The Campaigns of Alexander
ANTIQUITY AND THE ECONOMICALLY DISENFRANCHISED:
Plautus: Captivi, Casina, Persa
Cato: De agri cultura, passages on treatment of slaves
Petronius: Satyricon (Cena Trimalchionis)
Seneca, Ep. Mor. 47
FEAR OF DIVERSITY V. THE VOICE OF TOLERANCE:
VOICES OF THE POLITICALLY DISENFRANCHISED:
Archilochus, Sappho: selections on exile
Pindar: Pythian 4
Thucydides: Book 5
Andocides: passim
Tacitus: passim
Pliny the Younger: selected Epistulae
Sallust: Praefationes to Bellum Catilinae and Bellum Iugurthinum
Ovid: Tristia: Epistulae ex Ponto
Seneca: Consolationes ad Helviam, Marciam, Polybium
Darlene Brooks Hedstrom
and Judith de Luce for the American Classical League. Copyright 2000.
Oxford, OH, USA.