BIBLIOGRAPHY :

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. Those editions I personally enjoy most are noted with a graphic , as my particular favorites of the recommended links shown below. The books which I personally consider indispensable to learning about Caesar and Rome are shown in green type.

Original Sources:

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

Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico, issued under title The Conquest of Gaul, trans. S. A. Handford, Ed. Jane F. Gardner, Penguin Classics, 1951, 1982.

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, Selected Political Speeches, trans. Michael Grant, Penguin Classics, 1969, 1989.

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

Cicero, Cicero : Select Letters, trans. D. R. Shackleton Bailey, Penguin Classics, 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.

Aulus Gellius, The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius (Loeb); Loeb Classical Library 212,

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

Plutarch, Fall of the Roman Republic : Six Lives (Marius, Sulla, Crassus, Pompey, Caesar, Cicero), trans. Rex Warner, Penguin Classics, 1958, 1972.

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.

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

Valerius Maximus, Valerius Maximus : Memorable Doings and Sayings, Books I-V, trans. D. R. Shackleton Bailey, Loeb Classical Library.

Modern Biographies and Studies:

An excellent grounding for Caesar's life and times is provided in Antony Kamm's succinct but vivid Julius Caesar: A Beginner's Guide (Hodder & Stoughton, 2002), suitable for both students and teachers. Kamm's The Romans: An Introduction(Routledge, 1995) is similarly recommended for the beginner who wants a concise introduction to all Roman history.

One of my favorite assets for any student who wants to understand the peculiar mind-set of the late Republic is Tom Holland's Rubicon, an excellent summary of this complex period.

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

Matthias Gelzer, Caesar : Politician and Statesman, Harvard University Press, 1968

Christian Meier, Julius Caesar, The Folio Society, 1998 (reprint). Available in paperback: Caesar

James Sabben-Clare, Caesar and Roman Politics 60-50 BC: Source Material in Translation, trans. Sabben-Clare, Oxford University Press, 1971

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.

Walker, Susan, ed., Cleopatra of Egypt: From History to Myth, Princeton University Press, 2001.

RECOMMENDED LINKS:

Links on Julius Caesar:

Caesar's own writings online:

The 0 Internet Classics Archive.

Cicero's Orations Online (Perseus Project), Cicero's Orations.

Plutarch's biography of Caesar, Plutarch's Life of Caesar.

One of the best Caesar sites I have found for range and intelligence is Michael Akinde's extended biography of Caesar within his History of the Hellenistic and Roman World. You can also link directly through Gaius Julius Caesar: 100-44 BC.

An excellent multi-part biography on Caesar (and others) may be found at Jona Lendering's C. Julius Caesar: A Biography in Twelve Parts.

Barbara McManus, well-known for her images of ancient Rome, also has a web biography of Caesar, VROMA: Julius Caesar: Historical Background.

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

Links on Caesar's Contemporaries:

For a fascinating short biography of Augustus, try Nicolaus of Damascus' Life of Augustus.

An interesting site on Pompey and his great Theatre complex is the Theatrum Pompei Project.

The top web site for Ciceronians, including Latin works, biography, links, and translations, may be found at The Cicero Home Page.

A web site on royalty has an excellent section (including links) on Cleopatra VII, including bibliography and links, at Royalty.nu.Cleopatra.

A marvelous web site on the poet Catullus and his poems on Caesar (and others) may be found at Catullus The Roman.

Omnibus Links on Rome's History

Bill Thayer has also done every Caesarian (and Roman) a 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.

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.

One of the best all-round Roman resources for history, links, literature, and especially images, is the Forum Romanum.

The Forum Romanum: Exploring an Ancient Marketplace has a general overview history of Rome, biographies of significant emperors, and information and graphics concerning the Forum itself through the Roman ages.

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

Nicolaus of Damascus wrote a fascinating history of Augustus which contains much about the murder of Caesar; try Professor Adams' home page (which contains much more) at Greek and Roman History.

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.

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

For lovers of Asterix (and Julius Caesar), a wonderfully amusing web site based on the classic French comix about Caesar's Gallic Wars, Official Asterix Web Site.