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A very select Bibliography

 

I. Select Electronic Resources

NB: There are a number of useful sites devoted to or relevant to Augustus....and there are a number of useless sites. Here are some of the better ones I've run across, and I'll update this list periodically. Let me know, too, if you find a site you think should be listed and I'll have a look.

II. Modern historical accounts

General

Bowman, Alan K., E. Champlin, and A. Lintott, edd. The Cambridge Ancient History. Second edition. Vol. X: The Augustan Empire, 43 B.C.-A.D.69. Cambridge 1996. [Very thorough, recent historical treatment]

Clark, Matthew D. H. Augustus, first Roman emperor: power, propaganda and the politics of survival. Greece and Rome live. Exeter: Bristol Phoenix Press, 2010.

Cooley, A.E. Res Gestae Divi Augusti. Text, Translation, and Commentary. Cambridge 2009. [new edition of this important document, very useful for the period as a whole]

Earl, D. The Age of Augustus. New York 1968. [An excellent book for general reader with lavish illustrations]

Eck, W., et al.  The Age of Augustus.  Blackwells 2003.  [Good account, slightly less detailed than Jones]

Galinsky, K. Augustan Culture. Princeton 1996. [thorough, wide-ranging study of the subject]

_________. Augustus: Introduction to the Life of an Emperor. Cambridge 2012.

Gurval, R. Actium and Augustus. Ann Arbor 1995. [specialized study of the 'Actium myth', but good case study of the nature of Augustan propaganda and what modern scholars have made of it]

Jones, A. H. M. Augustus. London: Chatto & Windus 1970.

Levick, B. Augustus. Image and Substance. Longman 2010.

MacMullen, Ramsay.  Romanization in the time of Augustus.  Yale University Press 2000.

Milnor, K.  Gender, domesticity, and the age of Augustus: inventing private life. Oxford 2005.

Morrell, Kit, Josiah Osgood and Kathryn Welch (ed.). The alternative Augustan age. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.

Osgood, J.  Caesar's legacy : civil war and the emergence of the Roman Empire.  Cambridge 2006.

Richardson, J.S. Augustan Rome 44 BC to AD 14: the Restoration of the Republic and The Establishment of the Empire. The Edinburgh History of Ancient Rome 2012.

Rowell, H.T. Rome in the Augustan Age. Norman, OK 1962.

Southern, P. Augustus. New York: Routledge 1998. [very good, recent biography]

Syme, R. The Roman Revolution. Oxford 1939.

______. The Augustan Aristocracy. Oxford 1986.

Wells, C. The Roman Empire. 2nd edition. Stanford 1995. [very good account of the reign of Augustus in Chaps. 3-4]

Specific Studies (recent collections of articles about various aspects of the Augustan regime)

Edmondson, Jonathan (ed.). Augustus. Edinburgh readings on the ancient world. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009. [collection of previously published essays about various aspects of Augustus and his reign by leading scholars.  Available online through UW Libraries]

Galinsky, K. ed., The Cambridge companion to the Age of Augustus.  Cambridge 2005.

Goodman, Penelope J. (ed.). Afterlives of Augustus, AD 14-2014. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. (looks at the 'reception' of Augustus from early Roman empire to present day)

Loar, Matthew P., Sarah C. Murray, and Stefano Rebeggiani (eds), The cultural history of Augustan Rome. texts, monuments, and topography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. [ebook available through UW Libraries Links to an external site.]

Millar, F. and E. Segal, edd. Caesar Augustus: Seven Aspects. Oxford 1984.

Reinhold, M., ed. The Golden Age of Augustus. Toronto 1978.

___________ and P.M. Swan, edd. Between Republic and Empire: Interpretations of Augustus and His Principate. Berkeley 1990.

Winkes, R., ed. The Age of Augustus. Providence 1985.

III. Sourcebooks (collections of ancient texts, inscriptions, papyri, etc. in translation)

Braund, D.C. Augustus to Nero: A Sourcebook on Roman History 31 BC - AD 68. London/Sydney 1985.

Chisholm, Kitty and John Ferguson. Rome, the Augustan age: a source book. Oxford 1981.

Cooley, M.G.L. and B.W.J.G. Wilson. The Age of Augustus. LACTOR 17.  London: The London Association of Classical Teachers, 2003.

Levick, B. The government of the Roman Empire: a source book. London 1985.

Lewis, N. The Roman Principate: 27 B.C. - 285 A.D. Toronto 1974.

_______ and M. Reinhold, edd. Roman Civilization. Vol. II: The Empire. New York 1955.

Shelton, J-A. As the Romans Did. A Sourcebook in Roman Social History. New York/Oxford 1988.

Sherk, R.K. The Roman Empire: Augustus to Hadrian. Translated Documents of Greece and Rome, vol. 6. Cambridge University Press 1988.

IV. Art and Archaeology

Lott, J. Bert. The Neighborhoods of Augustan Rome.  Cambridge 2004.

Haselberger, Lothar. Urbem adornare: die Stadt Rom und ihre Gestaltumwandlung unter Augustus = Rome's urban metamorphosis under Augustus.  English translation of the main text by Alexander Thein.  Portsmouth, R.I.: Journal of Roman Archaeology, 2007.

Kuttner, Ann L. Dynasty and Empire in the Age of Augustus: The Case of the Boscoreale Cups. University of California Press 1995.

Sutherland, C.H.V. Roman Coins. New York 1974.

Walker, Susan and Andrew Burnett. The Image of Augustus. London: British Museum Publications 1981.

Zanker, P. The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus. Translated by Alan Shapiro. Ann Arbor 1988.

V. Augustan Literature (recent publications)

Miller, John F. Apollo, Augustus, and the poets. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Pandey, Nandini B. The poetics of power in Augustan Rome: Latin poetic responses to early imperial iconography. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Thomas, Richard F.  Virgil and the Augustan reception.  Cambridge University Press, 2001

Powell, A., ed. Roman poetry and propaganda in the age of Augustus. London: Bristol Classical Press 1992.

White, P. Promised Verse: Poets in the Society of Augustan Rome. Harvard 1993.