Further Reading
If you’ve been interested by the stuff I’ve been posting about, you might like these books:
A History of the Romans by Frank C. Bourne
Livy (Oxford Readings in Classical Studies) edited by Christina S. Kraus and Jane D. Chaplin
Roman Women (Cambridge Introduction to Roman Civilization) by Eve D’Ambra
The Warrior Queens: The Legends and the Lives of the Women Who Have Led Their Nations in War by Antonia Fraser
Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas: Restoring the Links by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall
To Be A Slave in Brazil: 1550-1888 by Katia M. deQueirós Mattoso
The Roman Near East: 31 BC-AD 337 (Carl Newell Jackson Lectures) by Fergus Millar
American Slavery, American Freedom by Edmund S. Morgan
The Portuguese in West Africa, 1415-1670: A Documentary History edited by Malyn Newitt
Empress Zenobia: Palmyra’s Rebel Queen by Pat Southern
Palmyra and Its Empire: Zenobia’s Revolt against Rome by Richard Stoneman
Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800 (Studies in Comparative World History) by John Kelly Thornton
Aurelian and the Third Century (Roman Imperial Biographies) by Alaric Watson
The material discussed in my post about female narratives in the works of Livy may be found in the following volumes; the Loeb Classical Library editions contain the original Latin next to the translations, while the Penguin Classics edition contains only the translation:
Livy: The Early History of Rome, Books I-V (Penguin Classics) (Bks. 1-5) translated by Aubrey De Selincourt, by Titus Livius
Livy: History of Rome, Vol. I, Books 1-2 (Loeb Classical Library: Latin Authors, Vol. 114) translated by B.O. Foster, by Titus Livius
History of Rome, II: Books 3-4 (Loeb Classical Library) translated by B.O. Foster, by Titus Livius
Past recommendations may be found on the Further Reading page (now with navigation that I’m vaguely proud of and a Fiction section!).
