Yale Required Reading - Collected Works (Vol. 2): The Rise and Fall of Rome: The Greatest Works of the Roman Classical Literature

This collection is based on the required reading list of Yale Department of Classics. Originally designed for students, this anthology is meant for everyone eager to know more about the history and literature of this period, interested in poetry, philosophy and rhetoric of Ancient Rome.
Latin literature is a natural successor of Ancient Greek literature. The beginning of Classic Roman literature dates to 240 BC. From that point on, Latin literature would flourish for the next six centuries. Latin was the language of the ancient Romans, but it was also the lingua franca of Western Europe throughout the Middle Ages. Consequently, Latin Literature outlived the Roman Empire and it included European writers who followed the fall of the Empire, from religious writers like Aquinas, to secular writers like Francis Bacon, Baruch Spinoza, and Isaac Newton. This collection presents all the major Classic Roman authors, including Cicero, Virgil, Ovid and Horace whose work intrigues and fascinates readers until this day.

Aulularia
Amphitryon

Adelphoe

Annales

Poems and Fragments

On the Nature of Things
Julius
The Civil War

History of Catiline's Conspiracy

De Oratore
Brutus

The Odes
The Epodes
The Satires
The Epistles
The Art of Poetry

The Aeneid
The Georgics

Elegies

Elegies
Cornelius
Lives of Eminent Commanders

The Metamorphoses

Res Gestae Divi Augusti
Lucius Annaeus
Moral Letters to Lucilius

On the Civil War

Satires

Satyricon

Epigrams
Pliny the
Letters

The Annals

Institutio Oratoria

Satires

The Twelve Caesars

The Metamorphoses
Ammianus
The Roman History
Saint Augustine of
The Confessions

Against Eutropius

The Consolation of Philosophy

The Rise and Fall of Roman
Romulus
Poplicola
Camillus
Marcus Cato
Lucullus
Fabius
Crassus
Coriolanus
Cato the Younger
Cicero