The Ancient World

Primary Sources
Homer: The Iliad
Thucydides: History of the Peloponnesian War
Plato: The Republic
Herodotus: The Histories
St. Augustine: Confessions
Tacitus: The Annals of Imperial Rome

Textbooks:
Pomeroy et al. : Ancient Greece, a Political, Social, and Cultural History
Boatwright et al.: The Romans, From Village to Empire

Secondary Sources
Jonathan Winkler: The Constraints of Desire
Peter Brown: The Body and Society
Peter Brown: The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph and Diversity, A.D. 200-1000