1st Century B.C.

Pompeius Trogus, the Phillipic Histories in Justinus' epitome. From antiquity through the conquest of Alexander's successor kingdoms by the Romans. At Attalus.

1st Century B.C.- 1st Century A.D.

Deeds of the Deified Augustus (Res Gestae Divi Augusti), reigned 31 B.C. - 14 A.D. At Livius.org and LacusCurtius.

Velleius Paterculus' Roman History, at LacusCurtius.

1st Century A. D.

Pliny's Natural History, at LacusCurtius.

Download Natural History by Pliny the Elder (23-79 A.D.), translated by John Bostock in six volumes (London, 1855). Volumes 1 and 2 in particular deal with history and geography:

volume 1, 538 pdf pages. File size: 21.9 MB. Stars, planets, aerial phenomena, world geography;

volume 2, 589 pdf pages. File size: 19.1 MB. Geography continued, humanity, life cycles, terrestrial animals, fish, birds;

volume 3, 565 pdf pages. File size: 19.3 MB. Insects, trees;

volume 4, 551 pdf pages. File size: 19.0 MB. Grains, plants, remedies from plants, flowers, properties of plants and fruits, remedies from cultivated trees;

volume 5, 588 pdf pages. File size: 24.6 MB. Remedies from forest trees, wild plants, remedies classified by disease, remedies from living creatures, remedies from waters;

volume 6 [includes General Index], 562 pdf pages. File size: 19.9 MB. Remedies from aquatic animals, history of metals, history of paintings and colors, stones, and precious stones.

1st-2nd Century A. D.

Tacitus' Annals, covers from A.D. 14-68. See especially: 1. 1-15; 2 .1-88; 3. 40-55; 4. 1-22; 6. 28-51; 11. 1-15; 12. 1-69; 13. 1-58; 14. 1-39; 15. 1-32; 16. 23.

Tacitus' Histories, covers from A.D. 68-96. See especially: 2. 52-101; 3. 1-25. Both works at LacusCurtius.

2nd Century

The Golden Ass/Metamorphoses by Lucius Apuleius. This is the only Latin novel to survive intact. Full of amusing folk tales, it is also "the only surviving work of literature from the ancient Greco-Roman world to examine, from a first-hand perspective, the abhorrent condition of the lower classes" (Wikipedia article). Contains several references to the area of our interest. At Sacred-texts.

Attic Nights by Aulus Cornelius Gellius, preserves some invaluable excerpts from Greek and Roman authors. At LacusCurtius.

3rd Century

Historia Augusta, at Livius.org and LacusCurtius. Use this with great caution.

4th Century

Eutropius' Abridgement of Roman History (Historiae Romanae Breviarium), a short history of Rome from its foundation to the death of Emperor Jovian (d. 364). At Tertullian.

Ammianus Marcellinus' History, at LacusCurtius.

Ammianus' version of events in 4th century Armenia makes an interesting contrast to the native Armenian account found in The History of the Armenians, by the 5th century P'awstos Buzand. Such a comparison was made, in part, in Norman H. Baynes' article, "Rome and Armenia in the Fourth Century," which appeared on pp. 625-643 of the English Historical Review #25(1910). This article (20 pdf pages) may be downloaded here.

History and Culture

Transcaucasia and Roman Expansion chapter V. from Contributions to the Ancient History of the USSR, P.N. Tretiakov and A.L. Mongait, editors.

The Development of Trade and Cities in the Reign of Tigran the Second by H. A. Manandian.

Trade and Trade Centers in Armenia in the Roman-Parthian and the Byzantine-Sasanian Period by H. A. Manandian.

Roman and Byzantine Campaigns in Atropatene by Vladimir Minorsky.

Entries for "Roman Empire" and "Roman Emperor" at Encyclopaedia Iranica: Roman Empire/Roman Emperor.

History of Rome, volumes 1-5 by Theodor Mommsen, at Project Gutenberg.

A History of the Roman Empire, from its foundation to the death of Marcus Aurelius (27 B. C. - 180 A.D.) by John Bagnell Bury, at Internet Archive.

The Invasion of Europe by the Barbarians by John Bagnell Bury.

Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism, by Franz Cumont. At Sacred-texts.
The Mysteries of Mithraism, by Franz Cumont. At Sacred-texts.

Download Syria as a Roman Province, by E. S. Bouchier (Oxford, 1916), 332 searchable pdf pages. Download here: Syria as a Roman Province. File size: 6.2 MB.

Art History, Italian Penninsula

Metropolitan Museum of Art (N.Y.) Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History Italy 1000 B.C. - 1 A.D.
Metropolitan Museum of Art (N.Y.) Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History Italy 1 - 500 A.D.