 Internet Ancient History Sourcebook
Late Antiquity
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Late Antiquity
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Military Revolution and
Government
- Wikipedia: Crisis of the Third Century CE
- Map: Europe, North Africa and the Near East 230CE
- Map: The Divided Empire 271 CE
- Map: Barbarain Invasions of the Roman Empire 3rd Century CE
- Map: The Tetrarchy
- Herodian (early 3rd Cent. BCE): History VII:3 [At Livius]
On the effects of taxation.
- The Plague of Cyprian: Various Reports 249-262 CE [At this Site]
- Cyprian: On the Mortality or Plague (The Plague of Cyprian 249-262 CE) [At EWTN] [Internet Archive version here]
- Wikipedia: The Year of Six Emperors 238 CE
- Historia Augusta: The Two Maximini [At Lacus Curtius]
- Herodian (170-240 CE): History of the Roman Empire Since the Death of Marcus Aurelius (180-238 CE), full text [At Livius]
- Herodian (170-240 CE): History of the Roman Empire Since the Death of Marcus Aurelius (180-238 CE), full text [Wikisource]
- Historia Augusta (Lives of Roman Emperors 117-285) [At Livius]
- Historia Augusta (Lives of Roman Emperors 117-285), full text in Latin and English [At Lacus Curtius]
- Historia Augusta (Lives of Roman Emperors 117-285), full text in Latin [Wikisource]
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Eutropius:
Abridgement of Roman History. full etext in Latin and English [At CSL] [Internet Archive version here]
- Eutropius: Abridgement of Roman History: Book 9: Rise of Diocletian. [At CSL] [Internet Archive version here]
- Sextus Aurelius Victor (Attrib): Epitome De Caesaribus: A Booklet about the Style of Life and the Manners of the Imperatores, trans. Thomas M. Banchich [Was at Roman Emperors, now at this Site]
- Dio Cassius (c.155-235 CE): Roman History, 77:9-10 On Severus [At Lacus Curtius]
- Zonaras: Diocletian to the Death of Galerius 284-311 CE [Was Ancient Sites, now Internet Archive]
- Diocletian (284-305 CE) and Constantine (308-337 CE): Efforts
to Stabilize the Economy [This Site]
- Diocletian (r.284-305 CE): Edict on Maximum Prices 302 CE, trans Anthony Kopf PDF [At UIB] [Internet Archive version here]
- Diocletian (r.284-305 CE): Prices Edict, 301 CE in Latin [At Bib Augustana]
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The Tetrarchs [At Bluffton] [Internet Archive version here]
- The Theodosian Code trans Clyde Pharr. Extensive excerpts [At Googe Books] [Internet Archive version here]
- Notitia
Dignitatum (Register of Dignitaries), c. 400 [At this Site]
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2ND Ralph W. Mathisen: Diocletian (284-305 A.D.) [At
Roman Emperors] [Internet Archive version here]
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2ND Michael DiMaio, Jr.: Constantine I (ca.272 or 273-336, C.E.) [At Roman Emperors] [Internet Archive version here]
- Sozomen (d. c. 450 CE): Constantine Founds
Constantinople, 324 CE, from Ecclesiastical History 2.3 [At this Site]
- 2ND James O'Donnell: Liberius the Patrician [Was At
UPenn, now Internet Archive]
On a late antique patrician, b. 465 CE.
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The End of the
Roman Empire in the West
- Ammianus Marcellinus: The Roman History. trans. C.D. Yonge, full text, (London: H.G. Bohn, 1862) [Project Gutenberg] and here [Wikisource]
- Ammianus Marcellinus (c.330-395 CE): The Roman History During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens Trans. Charles Yonge, Charles Duke. [Full text in various formats] [Project Gutenberg]
- Ammianus Marcellinus (330-395 CE): The Battle of
Adrianopole, 378 CE [At this Site]
- Ammianus Marcellinus (c.330-395 CE): The Siege of Amida in 359 by Ammianus Marcellinus [At De Re Militari] [Internet Archive version here]
- Ammianus Marcellinus (c.330-395 CE): History, XIV.16:
The Luxury of the Rich in Rome, c. 400 CE [At this Site]
- Procopius of Caesarea (c.500-after 562 CE): Alaric's Sack of
Rome, 410 CE, History of the Wars [written c. 550 CE], III.ii.7-39 [At this
Site]
- Procopius of Caesarea (c.500-after 562 CE): Gaiseric
& The Vandal Conquest of North Africa, 406 - 477 CE, History of the Wars [written c. 550 CE], Book III, chapters iii-vii [At this Site]
- St. Jerome (c.340-420): The Fate of Rome, from Letter to Agenuchia 409 CE, lamenting the Visigoths
- Cassiodorus (490-c.585): Warfare and Military Affairs in the Letters of Cassiodorus [At De Re Militari] [Internet Archive version here]
- Rutilius Numantius: On His Return, I.xi.47, The
Greatness of Rome in the Days of Ruin, 413CE [At this Site]
- Jordanes (fl.c.550 CE): History of the Goths
Chap. 20: The Devastation of the Goths in the Reign of Gallienus, 260-268
- Jordanes (fl.c.550 CE): History of the Goths Chap. 38: The Battle of Chalôns, 451 CE [At this Site]
The Defeat of Attila.
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Late Ancient Philosophy
- Roman Stoicism
- Neoplatonism
- WEB Neoplatonism, Plotinus, Emanation [IEP Articles]
- Plotinus (c.205-c.270 CE): Six
Enneads [At MIT][Full Text][Chapter files]
- Plotinus (c.205-c.270 CE): Six Enneads [At this
Site, formerly ERIS][Full Text]
- Plotinus (c.205-c.270 CE): On Beauty Ennead I:6.1 [At EWAC]
- Porphyry (232/3-c.305 C.E.):
On Cult Images [At MIT]
Drawn from fragments in Eusebius (c.260-340 CE).
- Porphyry (232/3-c.305 CE): On
Images [At MIT][Full Text]
- Iamblichus (c.250-c.325 CE): On the Arts and Effects of Ecstasy, On the Mysteries III, 4-6 [Was At Eliade, now Internet Archive]
- Libanius (314-c.393 CE): Funeral Oration on Julian [At Tertullian] [Internet Archive version here]
- The Emperor Julian: Mispogon (or
"Beard-Hater")[At this Site]
- Proclus (412-485 CE): Elements of Theology Full text [Internet Archive]
Conceived of as a systematic summary of Neoplatonic metaphysics, it has often served as a general introduction to this subject.
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Roman Mystery Religions
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End of Paganism
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Julian ("the Apostate") (b.332-r.361-d.363): Letter to Arsacius, c. 360. [At Wikisource]
- Symmachus (c.340-c.402): Relation 3,
384 CE [At Calgary] [Internet Archive version here]
Symmachus was the most prominent opponent of Christianity at his time. Here is his request
to the Christian Emperors to restore the altar of victory to the Senate.
- Ambrose of Milan (c.339-4 April 397): Response to Symmachus [ep. 17 and 18] [at Calgary] [Internet Archive version here]
- Zosimus: Historia Nova [Was At Then Again, now Internet Archive]
Theodosius II (r.375-95) bans the pagan rites and sacrifices.
- 2ND James O'Donnell: The Demise of Paganism, Traditio 35 (1977):45-88 [Was At UPenn, now Internet Archive]
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Modern
Perspectives on the End of Antiquity
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