III NERO
An excellent and authoritative account of the crisis of Nero's reign is:
Griffin, Miriam Т., Nero, The End of a Dynasty (London, 1984)
Two short introductions to Nero's rale can be found in:
Shotter, David, Nero (London, 2005)
Malta, Jiirgen, Nero (Oxford, 2005)
Other key works are:
Grant, Michael, Nero (London, 1970)
Champlin, Edward, Nero (Cambridge, Mass.; London, 2003)
Beacham, Richard C, The Roman Theatre and its Audience (London, 1991)
Beacham, Richard C, Spectacle Entertainments of Early Imperial Rome (New Haven; London, 1999)
ANCIENT SOURCES
For Tacitus's works for this period see the following translations:
Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome (London, 1989)
Tacitus, The Histories (London, 1972)
For Suetonius's life of Nero see:
Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars (Oxford, 2000)
Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars (Oxford, 2000) (Julius Caesar)
Other ancient narratives of the last decades of the republic are:
Appian, The Civil Wars (London, 1996)
Lucan, Civil War (Oxford, 1999) (poetic account)
AUGUSTUS
Wallace-Hadrill, Andrew, Augustan Rome (Bristol, 1993)
Zanker, Paul, The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus (Ann Arbor, 1988)
Beard, Mary; North, John; Price, Simon, Religions of Rome. Volume 1: 'A History'(Cambridge, 1998)
Galinsky, Karl (ed). The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Augustus (Cambridge, 2005)
Bowman, A.K.; Champlin, Edward; Lintott, Andrew (eds), Cambridge Ancient History, Volume 10: The Augustan Empire, 43 BC-AD 69' (Cambridge, 1996)
Syme, Ronald, The Roman Revolution, (Oxford, 1939)
Price, S. R E, Rituals and Power. The Roman Imperial Cult in Asia Minor (Cambridge, 1984)
Jones, Peter and Sidwell, Keith (eds), The World of Rome: An Introduction to Roman Culture, (Cambridge, 1997)
Barchiesi, Alessandro, The Poet and the Prince: Ovid and Augustan Discourse (Berkeley, 1997)
ANCIENT SOURCES
The key ancient texts for the life and rule of Augustus are:
Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars (Oxford, 2000)
Cassius Dio, The Roman History: The Reign of Augustus (London, 1987)
For Augustus's own account of his reign (My Achievements) see:
Res Gestae Envi Augusti, The Achievements of the Divine Augustus, (ed) P. A. Brunt and J.'M. Moore (Oxford, 1967) which has original text, translation and commentary
The primary sources on all aspects of Augustan age have been usefully collated in: K. Chisolmand J. Ferguson (eds), Rome: The Augustan Age, A Source Book (Oxford, 1981)
III NERO
An excellent and authoritative account of the crisis of Nero's reign is:
Griffin, Miriam Т., Nero, The End of a Dynasty (London, 1984)
Two short introductions to Nero's rule can be found in:
Shorter, David, Nero (London, 2005)
Malitzjurgen, Nero (Oxford, 2005)
Other key works are:
Grant, Michael, Nero (London, 1970)
Champlin, Edward, Nero (Cambridge, Mass.; London, 2003)
Beacham, Richard C, The Roman Theatre and its Audience (London, 1991)
Beacham, Richard C, Spectacle Entertainments of Early Imperial Rome (New Haven; London, 1999)
