High Level Texts:
| Starr | Ancient History, Chapters 21-26 |
| Moses Hadas | A History of Rome |
| Hollister | Medieval Europe: A Short History |
| Gombrich | The Story of Art(Intro.; ch. 1-4) |
| Or | |
| Janson | History of Art (Intro.; Part I, Ch. 1-5) |
Primary Sources and Subject Texts
| Livy | History of Early Rome Bk I, Preface - XXI, XLIX - LX Bk II, I - XIII |
| Polybius | The Rise of the Roman Empire |
| Virgil | 1st & 4th Eclogues |
| Aeneid (complete) | |
| Plautus | Mostellaria (The Haunted House) |
| Movie | A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum |
| Mattingly | The Man in the Roman Street |
| Robert Wilken | The Christians as the Romans Saw Them |
| Cicero | Letter to Atticus |
1st Catalinarian | |
Conta Verres | |
Somnium Scipionis | |
| St. Luke | Gospel |
| Acts of the Apostles | |
| St. Paul | Epistles (Minimum: 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, Philemon) |
| Suetonius | Lives of the Caesars |
| Apuleius | The Golden Ass: Bk I, II, XII, + Cupid & Psyche |
| Petronius | “Trimalchio's Dinner” -- Satyricon |
| Rutilius Namatianus | Journey Home |
| Minucius Felix | Octavius |
| St. Augustine | Confessions (selections?) |
| Boethius | Consolation of Philosophy |
| Waddell | The Desert Fathers (selections) |
| Gregory the Great | Life of St. Benedict |
| St. Benedict | Rule of St. Benedict |
| Gregory of Tours | History of the Franks |
| anon. | Beowulf |
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