New Roman History Texts in Perseus

5 December 2003

Several new text sources for the history of the Roman Republic have been added to the Perseus Digital Library.

Polybius Histories, with a translation. Perseus would like to thank Robert Strassler for supporting the digitization of these texts. More information on Polybius can be found in the Perseus Digital library in the Harper's Dictionary and the Perseus Encyclopedia.
Appian's Civil Wars and Foreign Wars, with English translations. Read more about Appian in Harper's Dictionary.

Linking to the new texts

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Author Abbreviation Work Abbreviation Sample link

Polybius Plb. (n/a) cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Plb.+37.4

Appian App. Civil Wars BC cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=App.+BC+1.1.1

Kings of Rome Reg. cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=App.+Reg.+1

Italian Affairs Ital. cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=App.+Ital.+1

Samnite History Sam. cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=App.+Sam.+1

Gallic History Gall. cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=App.+Gall.+1

Sicily and the Other Islands Sic. cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=App.+Sic.+1.1

Wars in Spain Hisp. cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=App.+Hisp.+1.1

The Hannibalic War Hann. cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=App.+Hann.+1.1

Punic Wars Pun. cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=App.+Pun.+1.1

Macedonian Affairs Mac. cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=App.+Mac.+1

Illyrian Wars Ill. cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=App.+Ill.+1.1

Syrian Wars Syr. cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=App.+Syr.+1.1

Wars with Mithridates Mith. cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=App.+Mith.+1.1

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Document last updated 4-Dec-03, DM