ZENOBIA PRIMARY SOURCES FOR DIVERSITY IN THE CLASSICAL WORLD

• Texts including references to Diverse Populations

  GREEKS AND AFRICANS:

  • Homer: Iliad

    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:

  • Polybius: Narrative on the Second and Third Punic Wars and other selections.

    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:

  • Livy: Selections from the Fourth Decade

    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:

  • Livy: Selections from the Fourth Decade

    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:

  • Pliny the Elder: Natural History, Book 6

    Arrian: The Campaigns of Alexander

  ANTIQUITY AND THE ECONOMICALLY DISENFRANCHISED:

  • Aristophanes: Ploutos

    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:

  • Juvenal, Sat. 3, v. Horace, Sat. 1.3

  VOICES OF THE POLITICALLY DISENFRANCHISED:

  • Homer, Iliad 2 (Thersites)

    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 

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