Latin Texts Plautus, Menaechmi, Captivi; Casina; Persa; Pseudolus. Terence, Eunuchus; Adelphoi; Hecyra. Sallust, Bellum Jugurthinum; Coniuratio Catilinae. Cicero, in Vatinium; pro Sulla; pro Sestio; pro Caelio; pro Milone. Livy, Ab urbe condita, Books 21-30. Horace, Satires; Epistles. Petronius, Satyrica. Seneca, De clementia; Apocolocyntosis; De brevitate vitae. Martial, Epigrams, Books 5 and 8. Juvenal, Satires. Suetonius, Lives of the Twelve Caesars. Tacitus, Agricola; Annals; Histories. Apuleius, Metamorphoses. Ammianus Marcellinus, Books 20-26. Claudian, in Rufinum; in Eutropium; De bello Gothico.
Secondary literature S. H. Braund, Beyond anger: a study of Juvenal s third book of satires, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Erich Burck, Das Geschichtswerk des Titus Livius, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Verlag, 1992. Elaine Fantham, Roman literary culture: from Cicero to Apuleius, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. Kirk Freudenburg, Satires of Rome: threatening poses from Lucilius to Juvenal, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Holly Ann Haynes, The history of make-believe: Tacitus on imperial Rome, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. Geraldine Herbert-Brown, Ovid and the Fasti: an historical study, New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. Matthew Leigh, Comedy and the rise of Rome, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Richard C. Lounsbury, The arts of Suetonius: an introduction, Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1987. Regina May, Apuleius and Drama: The Ass on Stage, New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Ellen O Gorman, Irony and misreading in the Annals of Tacitus, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. K. F. C. Rose, The date and author of the Satyricon, Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1971. N. Rudd, Themes in Roman satire, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1986. A. N. Sherwin-White, The letters of Pliny: a historical and social commentary, Oxford: Clarendon Pr., 1966. Nancy Shumate, Crisis and conversion in Apuleius Metamorphoses, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996. N. W. Slater, The theatre of the mind: metatheatre in Plautus, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981.
Niall W. Slater, Reading Petronius, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990. John P. Sullivan, Martial: the unexpected classic: a literary and historical study, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Ann Vasaly, Representations: Images of the world in Ciceronian oratory, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. A. Wallace-Hadrill, Suetonius: the scholar and his Caesars, New Haven: Yale Univ. Pr., 1984. A. J. Woodman, Tacitus reviewed, New York: Oxford University Pr., 1998.
Greek Texts Herodotus, The Histories, Books 2-5. Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War. Aristophanes, Ekklesiazusae; Knights; Frogs; Lysistrata; Acharnians. Demosthenes, On the crown; Meidias; On the Peace; Olynthiacs. Lysias, 1, 3, and 7. Apollodorus, Neaira [=Ps.-Demosthenes, 51]. Menander, Dyskolos. Xenophon, Agesilaos; Cyropaideia; Poroi. Polybius, Histories. Theocritus, Idylls. Epictetus, Discourses. Plutarch, Consolation to his wife; Advice to the bride and groom; on garrulity. Dio Chrysostom, Discourses, 40-49. Lucian, Alexander or the false prophet; Peregrinus; Anacharsis; The Ship; The Dream.
Secondary literature Robert B. Branham, Unruly eloquence: Lucian and the comedy of traditions, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1989. K. J. Dover, Lysias and the corpus Lysiacum, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968. Arthur M. Eckstein, Moral vision in the Histories of Polybius, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. V. Ehrenberg, The people of Aristophanes: a sociology of Attic comedy, 2nd ed. rev. & enlarged, Oxford: Blackwell, 1951. Edith Hall, Inventing the barbarian: Greek self-definition through tragedy, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. Debra Louise Hamel, Trying Neaira: the true story of a courtesan s scandalous life in ancient Greece, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. Simon Hornblower, Thucydides and Pindar: historical narrative and the world of epinikian poetry, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Steven Johnstone, Disputes and democracy: the consequences of litigation in ancient Athens, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999. C. P. Jones, The Roman world of Dio Chrysostom, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1978. A. A. Long, Epictetus: a Stoic and Socratic guide to life, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Clifford Orwin, The humanity of Thucydides, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. Mark Payne, Theocritus and the invention of fiction, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Sarah B. Pomeroy (ed.), Plutarch s advice to the bride and groom, and a consolation to his wife, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Christopher Robinson, Lucian and his influence in Europe, London: Duckworth,1979. Tim C. B. Rood, Thucydides: narrative and explanation, Oxford and New York: Clarendon Press, 1998.
Yun Lee Too, The rhetoric of identity in Isocrates: text, power, pedagogy, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Ariana Traill, Women and the comic plot in Menander, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Tim Whitmarsh, Greek literature and the Roman Empire: the politics of imitation, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Ian Worthington (ed.), Demosthenes: statesman and orator, New York and London: Routledge, 2000. John Zumbrunnen, Silence and democracy: Athenian politics in Thucydides history, University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008.