Sources

This page will be dedicated to list the bibliographical sources accessed during the writing of the novels. Here you will find the reference to the sources, while the texts will be at times published in the posts.
As finding the sources cost me time and effort, I thought it was nice to collect them, so that they were easy to access and compare. It will also be easier to follow the novels to those who want to deepen the historical sources I used as a reference.
I also want to stress that, when for narrative reasons I used the right to neglect the official versions of the most ancient historians, I made use of more modern reconstructions and critical works.

Neapolis - The Siren's Recall

Ancient Sources

1. Aa. Vv., “Philogelos”, 25;
2. Arrian, “Anabasis Alexandri”, I, 8-9;
3. Cicero, “Cato Major De Senectute”, XII, 39-41;
4. Diodorus Siculus, “Bibliotheca Historica”, XVI, 18-19, 85-88;
5. Dionisius of Alicarnasso, “Roman Antiquities”, XV, 3, 5-6, 9;
6. Herodotus, “Histories”, VIII, 41;
7. Horace, “Epistulae”, II, 1, 156;
8. Pausanias, 8. 25. 5-6;
9. Plato, “Symposion”;
10. Plutarch, “Dion”, 41, 44, 51;
11. Plutarch, “ Pelopida's Life”, XVIII, 5;
12. Plutarch, “Parallel Lifes - Alexander”, XIV, 4-5;
13. Polienus, “Stratagems”, IV.II.2;
14. Teopompus, Book 39, F185;
15. Livy, “Ab Urbe Condita”, I, 24, 32; VII, 31; VIII, 12, 15-17, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26;

Though here I write links to the posts published by me, it is also right to link the original material. Happily, the Internet allows to access these documents as well.

Classical Works Websites

• Perseus Digital Library an unexhaustible mine of original texts in Greek and Latin and of their translations in English and French;
• Ab Urbe Condita of Livy, in Latin. Some believe Wikipedia is the worst thing, but you can also find this kind of material in it;
• Sources on Alexander The Great;
• Lacus Curtius was probably the most important source of texts, original and translated, to write these novels.

Finally, here come the

Moderne Sources

It is correct to tell that not all the modern sources explicitly contributed to the novels' content. This means that you will not find in the novels links to many of them.
Yet, who will have the opportunity to read the texts here mentioned will surely see the influence they had on my novels.

1. J.  Beloch, “Campania”, Bibliopolis, 1989;
2. B.  Capasso, “Napoli Greco-Romana”, Arturo Berisio Editore, 1905;
3. T.  Cornell, “The Beginnings of Rome: Italy and Rome from the Bronze Age to the Punic Wars”, New York: Routledge, 1995;
4. A.  Gross, “Hermes—God of Translators and Interpreters - The Antiquity of Interpreting: Distinguishing Fact from Speculation”;
5. A.  La Regina, “Sanniti e Greci nel IV sec. a.C. - La leggenda delle origini spartane”, Il Molise. Arte, cultura, paesaggi, Fratelli Palombi Editori: Roma 1990, 55-62;
6. G.  Mancini, “Σεπειθος - Misterioso Sebeto”, a cura dell'Associazione “Il Quartiere Ponticelli”, 1989;
7. M.  Napoli, “Napoli greco-romana”, Colonnese Editore, 1997;
8. A.  Wanderlingh, “I giorni di Neapolis”, Edizioni Intra Moenia, 2001;
9. M.  Serao, “Napoli Antica”, G.R. Edizioni, 1996.

Neapolis - The Horsemasters

1. Appiano, Bellum Hannibalicum, I.4, II.8-VII.43;
2. Julius Beloch, Campania;
3. Cicerone, De Lege Agraria, II.95;
4. S. De Caro, B. Grassi, M. Minoja, V. Sampaolo, Nuovi dati per il santuario capuano di Giove Tifatino, Rendiconti dell'Accademia di Archeologia Lettere e Belle Arti, LXVII, Napoli, 1998
5. Michael P. Fronda, Between Rome and Carthage: Southern Italy During the Second Punic War, Cambridge University Press;
6. Frontino, Stratagemmi, III.XIV.2, III.XV.3;
7. Aulo Gellio, Notti Attiche, II.2, VI.1, XVI.4;
8. Silio Italico, Le Puniche, VIII;
9. Tito Livio, Ab Urbe Condita, XXI.1-XXVII.3;
10. Thomas F. Madden, Empires of Trust: How Rome Built and America Is Building a New World;
11. Mario Napoli, Napoli greco-romana, Colonnese;
12. Plutarco, De proverbiis Alexandrinorum;
13. Polibio, Storie, I.20, III, VII.1, VII.9, VIII.26, IX.3-7, IX.26, XXIV.3, XLII.3;
14. Senofonte, Dell'arte di cavalcare;
15. Senofonte, Il comandante di cavalleria;
16. Strabone, Geografia, V.4, VI.1.11, VII.1.3, VII.8.9.