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1. The Historians of Ancient Rome

   An Anthology of the Major Writings, 3rd Edition

   Edited by Ronald Mellor

   Series: Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World

   The Historians of Ancient Rome is the most comprehensive collection of ancient sources for Roman history available in a single English volume. After a general introduction on Roman historical writing, extensive passages from more than a dozen Greek and Roman historians and biographers trace...

   Published September 4th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Roman Historians

   By Ronald Mellor

   Ronald Mellor demonstrates that Roman historical writing was regarded by its authors as a literary, not a scholarly exercise, and how it must be evaluated in that context....

   Published December 2nd 1998 by Routledge
3. Tacitus

   By Ronald Mellor

   The histories of Roman senator Cornelius Tacitus constitute the most influential examination of tyranny, political behavior and public morality from the classical age. For centuries these portraits of courageous martyrs to freedom, of paranoid tyrants, and of sycophantic flatteres and informers...

   Published November 1st 1994 by Routledge