BIBLIOGRAPHY :

One of the reasons - after writing Julius Caesar: The Last Dictator - I decided to do a site on Augustus is that, remarkably, there is not one detailed web site at this writing that attempts to cover all major aspects of Augustus' long career, although there are many that provide short summaries. Most of these sites are recommended within the body of the site itself under "Sources." Additional recommendations and sources are listed here.

For the reader's convenience, editions shown in linked version may be purchased from Amazon.com. They are the editions I have used and quoted.

Appian,The Civil Wars (Penguin Classics), trans. John Carter, Penguin Classics, 1996.

Julius Caesar, The Civil War (The Penguin Classics) , Penguin Classics, 1967.

Cicero, Selected Letters (Penguin Classics), trans. D. R. Shackleton Bailey, Penguin Classics, 1986.

Cicero, Letters to Atticus, Vol. IV, trans. D. R. Shackleton Bailey, Harvard University Press (Loeb Classical Library), 1999.

Cicero, Cicero : Philippics, trans. D. R. Shackleton Bailey, University of North Carolina Press, 1986.

Cassius Dio, Roman History, Vol. III (Books 36-40), trans. E. F. Cary, 1916, 1987.

Cassius Dio, Roman History, Vol. IV (Books 41-45), trans. E. F. Cary, 1914, 1984.

Cassius Dio, The Roman History: The Reign of Augustus, trans. Ian Scott-Kilvert, Penguin Classics, 1987.

Werner Eck, The Age of Augustus, Blackwell Publishers, 2003.

Anthony Everitt, Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor, Random House, 2006. An excellent beginners biography of Augustus; unfortunately, Everitt doesn't use footnotes and he posits the unsupported theory that Augustus committed suicide at the end.

Anthony Everitt, Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician , John Murray, 2001.

Karl Galinsky, Augustan Culture, Princeton University Press, 1996.

Michael Grant, The World of Rome, Meridian edition (Penguin), 1987.

Erich S. Gruen,The Last Generation of the Roman Republic, University of California Press, 1974.

Tom Holland, Rubicon, Doubleday, 2004.

Antony Kamm, The Romans, Routledge, 1995

Josiah Osgood, Caesar's Legacy: Civil War and the Emergence of the Roman Empire, Cambridge University Press, 2006. A superb, if somewhat ponderous, analysis of the Triumvirate and its impact on the dying (or dead) Republic through literature and society.

Robert Payne, Ancient Rome, American Heritage Press, 1966, 2001.

Pliny the Younger, Letters of the Younger Pliny (Penguin..., trans. Betty Radice, Penguin Books, 1963, 1969.

Plutarch, Makers of Rome : Nine Lives by Plutarch, trans. Ian Scott-Kilvert, Penguin Classics, 1965.

Sallust, The Jugurthine War & The Conspiracy of Cataline trans. S. A. Handford, Penguin Classics, 1963.

Southern, Pat, Augustus, Routledge, 1998.

Suetonius, De Vita Caesarum: Divus Augustus (from "The Twelve Caesars"), trans. Robert Graves, The Folio Society, 1964 (reprint). Available in paperback: The Twelve Caesars (Penguin Classics)

H. H. Scullard, From the Gracchi to Nero : A History of Rome From 133 BC to AD 68, Routledge, 1988, 1996.

Ronald Syme, The Roman Revolution, Oxford University Press, 1939, 1956.

Velleius Paterculus, History, trans. Frederick W. Shipley, Harvard University Press (Loeb Classical Library), 1924, 1998. Available in edition Velleius Paterculus: Res Gestae Divi Augusti, Loeb Library, Harvard University Press.

Copies of almost all classical texts can be found under the Loeb Classical Library imprint at the Harvard University Press web site.

RECOMMENDED LINKS:

Nicolaus of Damascus wrote a fascinating history of Augustus which, although partial, contains invaluable information on his early life and actions after Caesar's death: try Professor Adams' home page (which contains much more) at Greek and Roman History.

Suetonius' entire biography of Augustus may be found at the Ancient History Sourcebook.

A good biography of Augustus may be found at DIR/De Imperatoribus Romanus.

An excellent source for maps of Roman battles [including, of course, many involving Augustus) may be found at DIR.

Virgil.org contains much information on Augustus and is particularly interesting for articles on various aspects of his life.

I also enjoy Augustus: Images of Power and Augustus and the Early Roman Empire.

You may find the Res Gestae Divi Augusti online.

GENERAL SITES ON ROMAN HISTORY:

The original catalogue of all Roman web resources, Bill Thayer's mammoth LacusCurtius: Into the Roman World.

Bill Thayer has done every lover of Roman history remarkable service by placing all of Cassius Dio online, in English. Dio is indispensable and fascinating, but comparatively hard to find and/or expensive in the many Loeb editions. You may read all of him (including a blow-by-blow account of Caesar's life) at LacusCurtius: Cassius Dio's Roman History.

One of the best all-round places to start learning about Ancient Rome, Internet Ancient History Sourcebook.

A longtime link which I really enjoy covers ancient history and many other things at The Ancient World Web.

Scholarly and accessible, try James Grout's excellent selective history of Rome, Encylopaedia Romana.

A site covering not only ancient Rome, but almost all ancient civilizations, The Amazing Ancient World.

A variety of cultural topics is dealt with in NM's Creative Impulse: Rome.

A giant site covering multiple facets of Rome in general and its leaders in particular is Throne of the Caesars: The Emperors.

A fine overview and timelines for all Roman history can be found at A Brief History of Ancient Rome.

Another good source is the Forum Romanum: Exploring An Ancient Marketplace.

A great deal of work and a wide array of subjects can be found at Illustrated History of The Roman Empire.

My favorite maps of the Empire may be found at Digitator. A fine list of map links may also be found at the Dalton Group's Maps of the Roman Empire.

De Imperatoribus Romanis contains much useful information; I particularly enjoy their maps and list of links.

Excellent collections of links to subjects Roman may be found here: CyberMuseum: Roman Links, Historylink101/Roman Research, Eurasia's Roman Web Links,

A reading group devoted to Roman history (with more useful links) is The Roman History Reading Group..

Full of enthusiasm and a wealth of information and images about the history of the Roman legions and other ancient armies, try RedRampant.com.