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Horace, Odes I.2.1-52

Appeal to Augustus

Horace, Odes II.1.29-40

Lament over the civil wars

Horace, Odes III.14.1-20

Augustus’s triumphant return

Horace, Odes III.3.37-72

The expansion of Rome

Horace, Odes III.5.1-56

Rome will not surrender

Horace, Odes III.6.1-20

The moral decline of Rome

Horace, Odes IV.14.1-52

Drusus and Tiberius and the superiority of Imperial Rome

Horace, Odes IV.5.1-40

Plea to Augustus to return

Jerome Letter 77.3

On Roman and Christian laws

Jerome, Commentary on Daniel II.40

The feebleness of the once powerful Romans due to their use of barbarians in their wars

Jerusalem Talmud Avodah Zarah 1:3, 39c

Roman festivals

Jerusalem Talmud Avodah Zarah 1:4, 39d

Diocletian and the fair in Tyre

Jerusalem Talmud, Avodah Zarah 1:7, 40a

Roman spectacles: theaters, stadiums, the arena, and more

Jerusalem Talmud Avodah Zarah 3:1, 42b

From which idols may no benefit be derived (through use or sale)?

Jerusalem Talmud Avodah Zarah 3:1, 42b-c

When may Jews look at icons and their inscriptions?

Jerusalem Talmud Avodah Zarah 3:1, 42c (part one)

Symbols that were associated with Roman power and its limitations relative to God's power

Jerusalem Talmud Avodah Zarah 3:1, 42c (part two)

Despised and honored objects: Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel’s criteria for idols from which benefit may be derived

Jerusalem Talmud Avodah Zarah 3:3, 42d

Which vessels with images and images on floor mosaics and walls are permitted to be used (or sold) by Jews?

Jerusalem Talmud Avodah Zarah 3:4, 42d

Rabban Gamliel at the Bath of Aphrodite in Acre (Akko; Ptolemais)

Jerusalem Talmud Avodah Zarah 5:3, 44d

Diocletian’s edict which ordered all inhabitants of the empire to offer sacrifices; and, the permissibility of Samaritan wine for consumption by Jews

Judaism and Rome