Benko, Stephen, "Pagan Criticism of Christianity During the First Two Centuries A.D., in Aufstieg und Niedergang der romischen Welt, II.23.1, pp. 1055-1118.

Blázques, José M. "The Rejection and Assimilation of Roman Culture in Hispania duting the Fourth and Fifth Centuries." Classical Folia 32.2 (1978), 217-242.

Boedecker, D. “Simonides on Plataea: Narrative Elegy, Mythodic History, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 107 (1995) 217-219.

Bowersock, G.W. "Syria Under Vespasian," Journal of Roman Studies 63 (1973), 133-140.

Burstein, Stanley. “Greek Contact with Egypt and the Levant: ca. 1600-500 B.C.,” Ancient World 27 (1996) 20-28.

Cameron, Averil, "Remaking the Past," in Late Antiquity, A Guide to the Postclassical World, ed. Bowersock, Brown and Grabar (Harvard, 1999), pp. 1-20.

Croke, Brian. "City Chronicles of Late Antiquity," in Reading the Past in Late Antiquity, ed. G. Clark, 165-204. Rushcutter's Bay, Australia: Australia National University Press, 1990.

Davies, J.K., "Greece After the Persian Wars", in Cambridge Ancient History (second edition), Vol. 5, pp. 13-33.

Dyson, S.L. “The Distribution of Roman Republican Family Names in the Iberian Peninsula,” Ancient Society 11-12 (1980-81) 257-99.

Henderson, John. "Livy and the Invention of History," In History as Text: The Writing of Ancient History, ed. Averil Cameron, 64-85. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990.

Lo Cascio, E. “The Size of the Roman Population: Beloch and the meaning of the Augustan Census Figures,” Journal of Roman Studies 84 (1994) 23-40. (Demonstrates the extent to which 19th century studies continue to dominate our fundamental assumptions)

Magie, David Jr. "The Mission of Agrippa to the Orient," Classical Philology, 3 (1908), 145-152. (Don’t assume that just because an article is old that it is unimportant or irrelevant)

Morgan, C. “Ethnicity and the Early Greek States,” Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society 37 (1991) 131-63.

Ostwald, M. "Athens as a Cultural Centre," in Cambridge Ancient History (second edition), Vol. 5, pp. 306-369.

Rehak, Paul, and Younger, John G., "Review of Aegean Prehistory VII: Neopalatial, Final Palatial, and Postpalatial Crete," American Journal of Archaeology 102 (1998) 91-173.

Runciman, W. "Doomed to Extinction: The Polis as an Evolutionary Dead-End," in O. Murray and S. Price, The Greek City from Homer to Alexander (Oxford: O.U.P. 1990), pp. 347-367. (Many scholars think that this is too pessimistic an assessment, but judge for yourself)

Walbank, Frank. “Recent Work in Hellenistic History,” Dialogus 3 (1996) 111-119.

Reference materials at the OU library that you should familiarize yourself with just as a matter of course:

Jacoby, Felix. Fragmente der greichischen Historiker, PA 3490 .J3 1961
Paully-Wissowa, Paulys realencyclopädie der classischen altertumswissenschaft, DE 5 .P33 1958 reference
Oxford Classical Dictionary, 2nd edition, DE 5 .O9 1970
Oxford Classical Dictionary, 3rd edition, DE 5 .O9 1996 (the new edition replaces but does not supercede ...)
Lemprier's Classical Dictionary, DE 5 .L564 (sort of a "poor student's" Pauly-Wissowa, widely reprinted)
The Ante-Nicene Fathers, BR 60 .A5 (11 vols, old but usually decent translations, with vile notes & infamously anti-Catholic commentary and notes throughout)
A Select library of the Nicene and post-Nicene Fathers, 1st Series, BR 60 S4 (14 vols, as above)
A Select library of the Nicene and post-Nicene Fathers, 2nd Series, BR 60 S42 (14 vols, as above)

Some other important reference materials in the University of Michigan Library:

The Athenian Tribute Lists, DF83 .M58
Aufstieg und Niedergang der romischen Welt, DG 209 .A92 (37+ volumes, articles in various languages)
Corpus inscriptionum latinarum, CN 520 .C6 (special collections, room 711 Graduate Library)
Inscriptiones graecae, 880.2 (in remote storage at Buhr, usually takes 48 advance hour notice)
Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Chronica Minora, Auctorum Antiquissimorum, DD 3 .M8 (3 vols)
Burstein, MacMullen, et al., Ancient History: Recent Work and New Directions, DE 8 .A541 1997