Term Paper Assignment

Your Contact:  Col. Sheldon, Ace of Spies

Your Mission:  Find spies in ancient sources

Your sources: 

Livy Penguin Classics: 

The Early History of Rome (Books I – V)

Livy Penguin Classics: 

Rome and Italy (Books VI-X)

Livy Penguin Classics:  

Rome and the Mediterranean (Books XXXI – LXV)

Livy Penguin Classics:  

War With Hannibal (XXI-XXX)

Livy is also available in Loeb Classical Library edition  PA6156 .L5

Polybius, The Histories, with an English translation by W.R. Paton. London: W. Heinemann; New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922-27.  PA3612 .P8 1922

Loeb Classical Library edition  

Polyaenus,  Stratagems of War, translated by Peter Krentz and Everett L. Wheeler, Chicago: Ares Press, 1994. PA4390 .P5 1994

Herodotus, The Histories, A.D. Godley Translation

            Loeb Classical Library edition   PA3612 .H5 1928

            Penguin Classics

Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, C. Forster Smith trans.

            Loeb Classical Library edition  PA3612 .T5 1928

            Penguin Classics

Frontinus

The Stratagems, (and the Aqueducts of Rome), Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Vegetius Renatus, Flavius

The Military Institutions of the Romans [by] Flavius Vegetius Renatus, translated from the Latin by Lieutenant John Clark, edited by Brig. Gen. Thomas R. Phillips, U. S. A. Harrisburg, Pa., The Military Service Publishing Company, 1944. U101 .V4 1944

Josephus, The Jewish War, translated by Thackeray, Cambridge: Loeb Classical Library edition, 1997, 3 vols.   DS122.8 .J733 1997

Caesar, The Gallic Wars

The Battle For Gaul. Anne & Peter Wiseman translators, Boston: D.R. Godine, 1980.   DC62 .C2813 1980

Caesar, The Civil Wars A. G. Peskett trans. , London: W. Heinemann, 1921.  PA6156 .C18 1921.  Loeb Classical Library edition ,

Ammianus Marcellinus, The Later Roman Empire, John C. Rolfe. Cambridge, Mass, Harvard University Press; London, W. Heinemann ltd. 1956-58.

            Loeb Classical Library edition   PA6156 .A6 1956  v.1

Arrian – The Campaigns of Alexander, translation by P. A. Brunt. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, Loeb Classical Library 1976-1983.      DF234 .A7513 1976  

W&L   The Life of Alexander the Great / by Arrian; translated by Aubrey de Sélincourt

Harmondsworth, Middlesex, Penguin Books, 1958.

Sallust – The Jugurthine War, with an English translation by J.C. Rolfe.

London : Heinemann ; New York : Putnam, 1920., Loeb Classical Library edition        PA6156 .S2 1920

The Old Testament – Books of Joshua, Judges, Kings

Any translation

Xenophon, The Anabasis, English translation by Carleton L. Brownson, E. C. Merchant, Walter Miller , London, W. Heinemann; Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University, 1968-1971 [et. al.] PA3612 .X4 1968

Loeb Classical Library edition 

Three Byzantine Military Treatises text, translation, and notes by George T. Dennis. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, Research Library and Collection, 1985.

U37 .T47 1985

Maurice, Strategikon Handbook of Byzantine military strategy,  translated by George T. Dennis, Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1984.

U101 .S8413 1984   W&L

Scanlon, George T., A Muslim Manual of War (see professor)

Kautilya, Arthasastra,  available on Amazon.

Appian, Roman History, With an English translation by Horace White. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1958-62. PA3611 .A64 1958  v.1

Loeb Classical Library edition 

Cassius Dio Coccceianus, Dio's Roman history. with an English translation by Earnest Cary, on the basis of the version of Herbert Baldwin Foster. London: W. Heinemann; Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1970. Loeb Classical Library edition   DG207 .C36 

Procopius, Bellum Gothicum, translation by H.B. Dewing, Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Pres ; London : W. Heinemann, 1969-1993.  PA3612 .P85 1940

Procopius, Bellum Persicum, , translation by H.B. Dewing, Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Pres ; London : W. Heinemann, 1969-1993.  PA3612 .P85 1940

Extra Credit:

Sun Tzu – The Art of War, Translated and with an introd. by Samuel B. Griffith. With a foreword by B. H. Liddell Hart. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1963. U101 .S95 1963

If used in conjunction with Ralph Sawyer, et. al., The Tao of Spycraft: Intelligence Theory and Practice in Traditional China, 1998 and The Tao of Deception: Unorthodox Warfare in Historic and Modern China, 2007.

A Mamluk Manual of War from the Fourteenth Century – George Scanlon trans.

Umar Ibn Ibrahim al-Awsi Al-Ansari, also known as Ibn al-'Adim, was a scholar and a civil servant in Egypt in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries.  Before he died in 1408, he composed a manual on the art of warfare, called the Tafrij al-Kurun fi Tadbir al-Hurub.  This work is divided up into twenty books, which deal with various topics, such as the qualities of generals and troops, the use of deception to avoid war, precautions to be taken when marching and setting up camp, and how to conduct and defend against sieges.