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Some good audiobooks, well-written and informative, if you want to delve deeper:

The Rise of Rome: The Making of the World’s Greatest Empire

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

The Founders of the Western World: A History of Greece and Rome

The History of Rome, Volume 1, Books 1 – 5

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Mastering the West: Rome and Carthage at War

Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization

The History of Rome, Volume 3: Books 21-25 (Livy on the Punic Wars)

Rome and the Mediterranean Vol. 1: The Histories (Polybius on what he calls the Hannabalic War)

Rome and the Mediterranean Vol. 2: The Histories

The History of Rome, Book 1: Roman Origins Before the Monarchy

The History of Rome, Book 2: From the Abolition of the Monarchy in Rome to the Union of Italy

The History of Rome, Book 3: From the Union of Italy to the Subjugation of Carthage and the Greek States

Rome Enters the Greek East

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My recent article Full Text From Ὁμόνοια to Concordia

Thucydides The Peloponnesian War

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Primary source for Marius and his war against Jugurtha The Jugurthine War & The Conspiracy of Cataline

The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome’s Deadliest Enemy

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The Spartacus War

Rubicon (Unabridged)

Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome’s Greatest Politician

Caesar: Life of a Colossus

The Commentaries

The standard undergraduate biography of Sulla,

https://www.amazon.com/Sulla-Last-Republican-Arthur-Keaveney/dp/0415336619/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1500517131&sr=8-1&keywords=Sulla

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**Homework**

Please spend twenty minutes practicing the following exercise:

https://www.quia.com/mc/2240067.html?AP_rand=1865047311

**Homework**

Please complete the activity, and write out each of the fifteen words on a sheet of paper.  To be collected tomorrow.

Note also that long o (ō) signifies omega, and short o (o) signifies omicron

Practice the Greek Alphabet 1 – tabney.com