Fordham University: Ancient History Sourcebook: The Delian League

This site, from the Internet Ancient History Sourcebook, provides a series of primary source documents on Rome's religious history. It includes prayers and hymns as well as writings from Cato, Cicero, Livy, and Plutarch.

Ancient History Sourcebook offers the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antonius, the "philosopher emperor" of Rome. This is one of the few pieces of literature written by a world leader; even more striking is the fact that it is a work of...

An in-depth history of Sparta. Discusses especially its attempts at expansion, including Sparta's subjugation of Messenia.

Read introductory commentary and interpretations of Hammurabi's Code, followed by the text itself. Site by Fordham University.

Fordham University provdides this very detailed study of the life and leadership of Hadrian. It looks at his background, his reign, and his death.

Fordham University offers an account of the early life of Philip II and his reign.

This is a translation of an extensive Roman work on Augustus and his reign. His family, family history, childhood, the loss of his father, his military career, and more are discussed in this extensive study of his life.

Here at this site from Ancient History Sourcebook at Fordham University is an English version of ancient Roman poet Horace's poem, "The Secular Hymn."

This site from the Fordham University provides an extensive biography of Thucydides and his writing of history. It details his life as a statesman, traveller and writer. He was schooled in rhetoric and philosophy. His intention in...

This site, which is provided for by the Fordham University and the Ancient History Sourcebook, gives an account of the Battle of Chaeronea from the historian Diodorus Siculus.