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323 BC - 4th century AD

Ancient accounts of the 16 Cleopatras, Hellenistic royals of Egypt, Syria and Macedonia
Compiled by Attalus
(308 BC - 30 BC)
The life of Antony according to Plutarch, including his relationship with the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra.
Translated into English.
From The Internet Classics Archive.
Transcription of “the Greek League of 303 BCE: alliance of Greek towns, organized by Demetrius Poliorcetes, directed against the Macedonian ruler Cassander.”
Livius.org
(303 BC; English translation)
Pausanias’ descriptions of the country based off of his own experiences
Perseus Digital Library
(3rd century BC; English transcription)
Collection of information on the Important Women of Pan-Hellenic Greece including goddesses, philosophers, poets, and social charter of tragic characters.
From the Internet History Sourcebook.
One of Plutarch's Lives, about the famous Macedonian King Alexander the Great.
(English translation, 100 BC)
Diodorus Siculus's Library of History, including both histories of the world and histories of Greece from the Trojan War to Caesar's Gallic War
In its original entirety, this history continued from Egypt down into the author's own time.
From LacusCurtius
(60-30 BC; English translations)
Universal history by Greek historian.
(English translation; 1st century BC)
By Cornelius Nepos on "one of the noblest and ablest of all the Hellenes."
From Fordham University
(30 BC; English translation)
Samples from the manuscript record on texts by and about Women of the Ancient World.
From Diotima
from The Annals
(AD 60-61; English translation)
Digitized by the British Library.
Search the Library's other manuscripts.
(96-1742; facsimiles)
By Gaius Julius Hyginus, famed as one of the only sources preserving a number of ancient myths
Translation from Jason and the Argonauts through the Ages
[1st century AD; English translation]
Plutarch's account of the famed athlete and warrior
(1st century AD; English translation)
Plutarch's account of Mark Antony and Cleopatra
From Greek and Roman Authors on LacusCurtius
(1st century AD)
L. Flavius Arrianus wrote "the most reliable ancient account of the conquests of Alexander the Great."
From Attalus
(2nd century AD; English translation)
Collection of myths normally attributed to Apollodorus.
(English translation; 2nd century AD)
Translation of Ptolemy's mathematical and astronomical works
(2nd century AD; English translation)
An account of his shameless passions and the disease that took his life
(2nd century AD; English translation)
"His Description of Greece in ten books is a traveller's account of sights of historical and cultural interest in the Peloponnese and central Greece."
By Theoi Classical Texts Library
(2nd century AD; English translation)
A historical geography and encyclopedia on the many countries of the Inhabited World.
From LacusCurtius
(2nd century AD; English translations)
Comprising the Military System of the Grecians; including a letter to Emperor Hadrian
(2nd century AD; English translation)
Includes The Gallo-Greek War, The Achaean War, The Cretan War and other conflicts involving the Greeks.
Made available by LacusCurtius
(2nd century AD; English and Latin transcription)
Arrian's short military history, set mostly in India, describes Alexander the Great's expedition (336-323 BCE) and his officer Nearchus' voyage following Alexander's conquest of the Indus Valley.
(2nd century AD; Latin translation; eBook)
Transcription of Justin’s history of the world, including the Peloponnesian War.
Forum Romanum
(3rd century AD; English, French and Latin translations)
Athenaeus' story of a banquet offers the reader much cultural information about Ancient Greece, including jokes, wedding festivities, music, thoughts on homosexuality, and a recipe from Mithaecus' lost cookbook.
From The Perseus Digital Library
(3rd century AD; English translation)
Transcription of philosopher Synesius’ letters relating dozens of experiences from shipwrecks on the Aegean sea to war to life as a bishop.
Livius.org
(4th century AD; English translation)
By Eunapius
(4th century AD; English translation)
A universal history including the longest list of Olympic victors still preserved
(4th century; English translation)
A booklet about the style of life and the manners of the Imperatores.
(late 4th century; English translation)
Found on the The Perseus Digital Library
Including translated text, secondary sources and museum photography.
(Greek and Latin transcriptions and English translations)
Most of the themes on the epigrams for women are familiar: regret for death before marriage, sorrow for a mother who dies in childbirth, contrasts between young and old.
From Diotima
(English translation)
Anthology of translated primary sources
See also Perseus texts of special interest
(English translations)


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