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Periplus Maris Erythraei

anonymous · 1st c. CE

The merchant's log of the Red Sea & Indian Ocean routes — the family's keel-text. 《厄立特里亚海航行记》——本家族的龙骨之作。

Greek

Strabo — Geographica

Strabo of Amasia

The seventeen-book geography of the inhabited world. 斯特拉波《地理志》十七卷。

Greek

Pomponius Mela — De Chorographia

Pomponius Mela

The earliest surviving Latin geography, a coastal circuit of the known seas. 梅拉《地志》——现存最早拉丁地理。

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Avienus — Ora Maritima

Rufius Festus Avienus

A verse periplus of the western coasts, preserving archaic sailing lore. 阿维埃努斯《海岸记》——西部海岸的诗体航路。

Latin

Pliny the Elder — Naturalis Historia

C. Plinius Secundus

The encyclopaedia of the natural world; books 3–6 chart the lands and seas. 老普林尼《自然史》——卷三至六绘述海陆。

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Vitruvius — De Architectura

Vitruvius Pollio

The ten books on architecture, harbours, machines and the siting of cities. 维特鲁威《建筑十书》——港埠、机械与城邑选址。

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Herodotus — Historiae

Herodotus of Halicarnassus

The Persian Wars and the wide ethnographic world around them. 希罗多德《历史》。

Greek

Polybius — Historiae

Polybius of Megalopolis

Rome's rise to Mediterranean power, by a witness to it. 波利比乌斯《历史》。

Greek

Diodorus Siculus — Bibliotheca Historica

Diodorus of Sicily

A universal history from myth to Caesar's day. 狄奥多罗斯《历史丛书》。

Greek

Arrian — Anabasis & Indica

L. Flavius Arrianus

Alexander's campaigns and the Indian-Ocean voyage of Nearchus. 阿里安《亚历山大远征记》与《印度志》。

Greek

Curtius Rufus — Historiae Alexandri Magni

Q. Curtius Rufus

The Latin history of Alexander the Great. 库尔提乌斯《亚历山大大帝史》。

Latin

Caesar — De Bello Gallico

C. Iulius Caesar

The commentaries on the Gallic War. 凯撒《高卢战记》。

Latin

Sallust — Bellum Iugurthinum

C. Sallustius Crispus

The war against Jugurtha of Numidia. 撒路斯提乌斯《朱古达战争》。

Latin

Tacitus — Agricola & opera minora

P. Cornelius Tacitus

The biography of Agricola and the shorter works. 塔西佗《阿古利可拉传》及短篇。

Latin

Ammianus Marcellinus — Res Gestae

Ammianus Marcellinus

The last great Latin history, Rome in the fourth century. 阿米阿努斯《业绩录》。

Latin

Apollonius Rhodius — Argonautica

Apollonius of Rhodes

The Greek epic of Jason and the voyage of the Argo. 阿波罗尼俄斯《阿尔戈船英雄记》。

Greek

Valerius Flaccus — Argonautica

C. Valerius Flaccus

The Latin retelling of the Argo's voyage. 瓦勒里乌斯·弗拉库斯《阿尔戈船英雄记》。

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Lucan — Pharsalia (Bellum Civile)

M. Annaeus Lucanus

The epic of the civil war between Caesar and Pompey. 卢卡努斯《法尔萨利亚（内战记）》。

Latin

Silius Italicus — Punica

Ti. Catius Silius Italicus

The longest Latin epic, on the Second Punic War. 西利乌斯《布匿战纪》。

Latin

Ovid — Tristia & Ex Ponto

P. Ovidius Naso

The exile poems from the Black-Sea shore of Tomis. 奥维德《哀怨集》与《黑海书简》。

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