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Fordham Museum of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Art: Ancient History

This guide presents resources useful in the study of classical art and archaeology and pertinent to the Fordham Museum collection.

Where to Start

The Greeks: History, Culture, and Society by Ian Morris; Barry B. Powell
Call Number: (RH) DF214 .M69 2010
Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2010.
Second edition.
Ancient Rome: An Introductory History by Paul A. Zoch
University of Oklahoma Press, 1998.
The Cambridge Ancient History
14 volumes in 19 parts

New Books in Greek History

Greece and the Augustan Cultural Revolution by A. J. S. Spawforth
Call Number: (RH) DF240 .S67 2012
Cambridge University Press, 2012.
A Culture of Freedom: Ancient Greece and the Origins of Europe by Christian Meier
Call Number: (RH) DF77 .M47513 2012
Oxford University Press, 2012.
A History of Trust in Ancient Greece by Steven Johnstone
Call Number: (RH) DF231.2 .J64 2011
University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Athens and Athenian Democracy by Robin Osborne
Call Number: JC75.D36 O83 2010
Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Digital Resources

Collection Highlights

Portrait of Augustus

Marble, 14-37 CE

Fordham Museum 11.004

Ancient Sources

The Landmark Herodotus by Andrea L. Purvis (Translator)
Call Number: (LC) D58 .H4713 2007
New York: Pantheon Books, 2007.
The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War by Robert B. Strassler (Editor and Translator)
Call Number: (RH) DF229.T5 C7 1996
New York: Free Press, 1996.
The Landmark Xenophon's Hellenika by Robert B. Strassler (Editor)
Call Number: (RH) DF229.X46 M27 2009
New York: Pantheon Books, 2009.
The History of Rome, Books 1-5 by Livy; Valerie M. Warrior (Translator)
Call Number: PA6452 .A5 2006
Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Company, 2006.
Rome's Italian Wars: Books Six to Ten by Livy; J. C. Yardley (Translator)
Call Number: (RH) PA6452 .A5 2013
Oxford University Press, 2013.
The Caesars by Suetonius; Donna Hurley (Translator)
Call Number: (RH) DG277.S7 H87 2011
Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Company, 2011.
The Annals and the Histories by Cornelius Tacitus; William Jackson Brodribb (Translator); Alfred John Church (Translator)
Call Number: (RH) DG207 .T3 C613 2003
New York: Modern Library, 2003.

New Books in Roman History

Rome and the Mediterranean, 290 to 146 BC: The Imperial Republic by Nathan Rosenstein
Call Number: (RH) DG241 .R67 2012
Edinburgh University Press, 2012.
Augustan Rome, 44 BC to AD 14: The Restoration of the Republic and the Establishment of the Empire by J. S. Richardson
Call Number: (RH) DG279 .R52 2012
Edinburgh University Press, 2012.
Imperial Rome AD 193 to 284: The Critical Century by Clifford Ando
Call Number: (RH) DG298 .A53 2012
Edinburgh University Press, 2012.
Imperial Rome, AD 284 to 363: The New Empire by Jill Harries
Call Number: (RH) DG311 .H27 2012
Edinburgh University Press, 2012.
The Oxford Handbook of Warfare in the Classical World by Brian Campbell (Editor); Lawrence A. Tritle (Editor)
Call Number: (RH) U29 .O93 2013
Oxford University Press, 2013.

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