Greece

General Greek History

• B.B. Powell and I. Morris, The Greeks (Prentiss Hall, 2005)
• R. Osborne, Greece in the Making: 1200-479 BC (London and New York, 1996)
• S.B. Pomeroy, S.M. Burnstein, W. Donlan, J. Tolbert Roberts, Ancient Greece: A Political, Social and Cultural History (New York, 1999)
• J. Winkler, F. Zeitlin and D. Halperin (eds.), Before Sexuality: The Construction of Erotic Experience in the Ancient Greek World (Princeton, 1990)

Archaic History

• I. Morris, Burial and ancient society: the rise of the Greek city-state (Cambridge, 1987)
• F. de Polignac, Cults, territory, and the origins of the Greek city-state, translated by Janet Lloyd with a new foreword by Claude Mosse (Chicago, 1995)
• N. Fisher and H. van Wees (eds.), Archaic Greece. New Approaches and New Evidence (London and Swansea, 1998)

Classical History

• D. Cohen, Law, Violence, and Community in Classical Athens (Cambridge 1995).
• J. Davidson, Courtesans and Fishcakes: the consuming passions in Classical Athens (New York, 1999)
• V.D. Hanson, The Western Way of War: infantry battle in classical Greece (New York, 1989; second edition 2000)
• J. Ober, Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens: rhetoric, ideology, and the power of the people (Princeton, 1989)

Hellenistic History

• F. W. Walbank, The Hellenistic World (Cambridge, Mass., 1993)
• D. Ogden, Polygamy, Prostitutes and Death: The Hellenistic Dynasties (London, 1999)
• S. E. Alcock, Graecia capta: The landscapes of Roman Greece (Cambridge, 1993)

Ancient Texts (in Translation)

• Aristophanes, Lysistrata; Wealth; Peace
• Aristotle, Politics
• Demosthenes, Against Medias, Against Neaira
• Herodotus, Histories
• Hesiod, Works and Days
• Lucian, On salaried posts in great houses, Alexander the false prophet, The passing of Peregrinus, Navigium (The Ship)
• Plutarch, On the education of children, On garrulity, On the glory of Athens, Witticisms of kings and generals, Virtues of women
• Theocritus, Idylls
• Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War
• Tyrtaeus, Elegies
• Xenophon, Cyropaedia

Rome

Textbook

• M. Cary and H.H. Scullard, History of Rome Down to the Reign of Constantine, 3rd ed. (New York, 1975)

Scholarly Literature

• P. Brown, The Making of Late Antiquity (Cambridge, MA and London, 1978)
• E. Fantham, et al., eds., Women in the Classical World (Oxford, 1994)
• M.I. Finley, The Ancient Economy (Berkeley, 1973)
• P. Garnsey and R. Saller, The Roman Empire: Economy, Society, and Culture (Berkeley, 1987)
• W.V. Harris, War and Imperialism in Republican Rome: 327-70 B.C. (Oxford, 1979)
• K. Hopkins, Conquerors and Slaves (Cambridge, 1978)
• E.N. Luttwak, The Grand Strategy of Roman Empire: From the First Century A.D. to the Third (Baltimore and London, 1976)
• C. Nicolet, World of the Citizen in Republican Rome (Berkeley, 1980)
• K. Raaflaub and M. Toher, Between Republic and Empire: interpretations of Augustus and His Principate (Berkeley, 1991)
• H.H. Scullard, From the Gracchi to Nero: A History of Rome from 133 B.C. to A.D. 68., 4th ed. (London, 1976)
• R. Syme, The Roman Revolution (Oxford, 1939)
• P. Zanker, Power of Images in the Age of Augustus, trans. A. Shapiro (Ann Arbor, 1988)

Ancient Texts (in Translation)

• Augustus, Res Gestae
• Ammianus Marcellinus, 14-31
• Caesar, Bellum Gallicum
• Catullus
• Cicero, Pro Caelio, In Catilinam, Pro Murena, Philippics
• Dio Cassius, 50-55
• Historiae Augustae (3 biographies)
• Horace
• Juvenal
• Livy 1-5,21-22
• Ovid, Ars Amatoria 1, Tristia
• Petronius, Satyricon
• Plautus, Menaechmi
• Pliny the Younger, Epistles
• Polybius, 1-12
• Propertius, 4
• Plutarch, Cato the Elder, Gaius Gracchi, Sulla, Pompey, Caesar, Cicero
• Sallust, Bellum Catilinae
• Suetonius (3 biographies)
• Tactitus, Agricola, Annales, Historiae 1
• Terrence, Adelphoe
• Vergil