Ancient History Sourcebook: The Luxury of the Rich in Rome An excerpt from the Roman History XIV.16, from the Davis translation, in which Ammianus criticizes Rome as shallow and culturally empty. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/ammianus-history14.html

Histos: Ammianus Marcellinus on the Geography of the Pontus Euxinus Paper by Jan Willem Drijvers of the University of Groningen considering Marcellinus' digression on the Black Sea in the Res Gestae as a literary rather than reference piece. http://www.dur.ac.uk/Classics/histos/1998/drijvers.html

SparkNotes: The Aeneid Plot summary and analysis. Also includes a discussion forum. http://www.sparknotes.com/guides/aeneid/