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Wells, Outline of History |
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Plutarch, esp. Cato Censor, Tiberius, Gaius Gracchus, Marius, Sylla, Pompey, Cicero, Caesar, Brutus, Antony |
 Lives of the noble Grecians and RomansVolume I Volume II Volume III Wikipedia: Cato Censor, Tiberius, Gaius Gracchus, Marius, Sylla, Pompey, Cicero, Caesar, Brutus, and Antony |
Lucretius, On the Nature of Things (trans. Munro, certain passages are admirably paraphrased in William Mallock, Lucretius on Life and Death)
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Virgil, Aeneid (trans. William Morris), selections
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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (Everyman Library)
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Williams, History of Science vol. 1 ch. 10-11
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Faure, History of Art vol. 1 ch. 8 |
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Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (6 vol., Everyman Library), esp. ch. 1-4, 9-10, 14, 15-24, 26-28, 30-31, 35-36, 44, 71 |
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