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Military history of Greece • Vetranio

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Scytho-Cimmerian invasions of Caucasus and the Ancient Near East • Germanic invasions of the Iberian Peninsula • Battle of Theodosia • Second Cretan War • Heruli raid on Greece (267 AD) • Epilektoi • Antony's Armenian campaign • First Battle of Adamclisi • Egyptian campaign (460 BC) (currently a redirect) • Third Messenian War (currently a redirect)

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Military history of ancient Greece • Psiloi • First Battle of Lamia • Second Battle of Lamia • Publius Licinius Crassus • Battle of Corbione • Stauricius • First Battle of Tapae • Second Battle of Tapae • Second Battle of Adamclisi • Licinius II • Fortifications of Mycenae

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Marcus Statius Priscus • Quintus Antistius Adventus • Caerellius Priscus

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Gnaeus Julius Agricola

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Rome

• Boatwright, Mary T., Gargola, Daniel J., Talbert, Richard J. A. The Romans: From Village to Empire (2004)
• Beesley, A.H., The Gracchi Marius and Sulla (Epochs of Ancient History) (1921). Useful topics: The Roman Army, Saturninus And Drusus, The Social War, Sulpicius, Marius And Cinna, The First Mithridatic War, Sulla In Greece And Asia, Sulla In Italy.
• Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794
  • History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 (English)
  • History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 (English)
  • History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3 (English)
  • History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 (English)
  • History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 (English)
  • History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6 (English)
• Livius, Titus
  • The History of Rome, Books 09 to 26
  • The History of Rome, Books 27 to 36
  • Roman History, Books I-III Roman History, Books I-III
• Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903
  • "The History of Rome, Books I-V", 1903
  • "The History of Rome, Book I: The Period Anterior to the Abolition of the Monarchy", 1903
  • "The History of Rome, Book II: From the Abolition of the Monarchy in Rome to the Union of Italy ", 1903
  • "The History of Rome, Book III: From the Union of Italy to the Subjugation of Carthage and the Greek States", 1903
  • "The History of Rome, Book IV: The Revolution ", 1903
  • "The History of Rome, Book V: The Establishment of the Military Monarchy", 1903
• Morey, William C., Ph.D., D.C.L., "Outlines of Roman History", New York, Cincinnati, Chicago: American Book Company (1901).
• Pennell, Robert Franklin, "Ancient Rome : from the earliest times down to 476 A. D"
• Renatus, Flavius Vegetius, "The Military Institutions of the Romans". Translations by Lieutenant John Clarke.
• Taylor, William C., "History of Rome". Philadelphia:Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co. (1851).

• All of Plutarch's lives can be found at classics.mit.edu (could be expanded to reference individual volumes).

Samnite Wars

• E.T. Salmon, Samnium and the Samnites London and New York: Cambridge U.P, 1967.

Punic Wars

• Dexter Hoyos, Hannibal's dynasty London and New York: Routledge, 2003. ISBN 0-415-35958-9
• Gregory Daly, Cannae London and New York: Routledge, 2002. ISBN 0-415-32743-1
• Nigel Bagnall, The Punic Wars London: Pimlico, 1990. ISBN 0-712-66608-7

Greece

• Lytton, Edward Bulwer, Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete.
• Herodotus
  • The history of Herodotus — Volume 1
  • The history of Herodotus — Volume 2
• Smith, William, "A Smaller history of Greece from the earliest times to the Roman conquest".
• Thucydides, "History of the Peloponnesian War" (translated by Richard Crawley).

Online Texts (readable/not downloadable)

• The Perseus Project has a massive collection of texts, both Greek and Roman. Among the most useful:
  • Diodorus Siculus, Library
  • Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War
  • Xenophon, Hellenica
• Attalus: Not a reference by itself, but a list of events in Greek, Roman, and Mediterranean history, year-by-year in rough chronological order within that year, with those events massively referenced themselves. It is sort of a "meta-index" of event-specific references, with many of the references linked directly to online versions of the text. An invaluable online historical research tool!

Armenia

• Vahan Kurkjian (1958) A History of Armenia, Armenian General Benevolent Union of America, New York, OCLC 889896040.
• Armenian Historical Sources