Aulus Gellius on Bonding

Aulus Gellius Attic Nights (written 2nd century A.D.) Book XII, Chapter 1 A discourse of the philosopher Favorinus, in which he urged a lady of rank to feed with her own milk, and with that of other nurses, the children whom she had borne. 1 Word was once brought in...

Ancient Snakes and Other Creatures

Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library 17.89.1-6 and 17.90.1, 4-7 [Concerning Alexander the Great in India] Written in the first century B.C. 89. [1] Many were slain in their flight, but then Alexander, satisfied with his brilliant victory, ordered the trumpets to sound...

Strabo

Excerpt from Ancient History from Primary Sources: A Literary Timeline by Harvey and Laurie Bluedorn Strabo c. 66 b.c.-a.d. 24 Strabo was a Greek historian and geographer writing in the early days of the Roman Empire under the first two Roman emperors, Augustus and...