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Roman Emperors and Biography: From View Online Caligula to Domitian (SPR)
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Your First Task (1 items) Please locate chapter 6 on the Madness of Caligula - you will need to examine the argument closely to understand why we need to take this issue seriously, if we are to study Roman history of this period. What problems does this chapter flag up for the study of Roman history?
Politics and society in imperial Rome - Aloys Winterling, 2009 Book | Core (Must Read)
Reference Works (4 items) Use these resources to look up unfamilar names of people and places found in Suetonius.
The Oxford dictionary of the classical world - J. W. Roberts, 2005- Book
The Oxford companion to classical civilization - Hornblower, Simon, Spawforth, Antony, 1998 Book | Core (Must Read)
The Cambridge dictionary of classical civilization - Shipley, Graham, 2006 Book | Core (Must Read)
The Oxford classical dictionary - Hornblower, Simon, Spawforth, Antony, Eidinow, Esther, 2012 Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Writing Biography and Historiography (17 items)
The Voice of the Biographer - P.R. Backscheider Chapter | Recommended (Should Read)
Description of Personal Appearance in Plutarch and Suetonius: The Use of Statues as Evidence - A. E. Wardman, 1967 Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Graeco-Roman Histiography - B. Croce Chapter | Recommended (Should Read)
The representation and perception of Roman imperial power: proceedings of the Third
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Workshop of the International Network Impact of Empire (Roman Empire, c. 200 B.C. - A.D. 476), Netherlands Institute in Rome, March 20-23, 2002 - Blois, Lukas de, Workshop of the International Network Impact pf Empire, 2003 Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Interpretive biography - Denzin, Norman K., 1989 Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Literary biography - Edel, Leon, [1973] Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Portraits: biographical representation in the Greek and Latin literature of the Roman Empire - Edwards, M. J., Swain, Simon, 1997 Book | Recommended (Should Read)
The Cambridge companion to the Roman historians - Feldherr, Andrew, c2009 Book | Core (Must Read)
Looking Back: Biography in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. - P.M. Kendall Chapter | Recommended (Should Read)
The literary biography: problems and solutions - Salwak, Dale, 1996 Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Epochs of Greek and Roman biography - Stuart, D R., 1967 Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Review Article: The Rediscovery of Suetonius - Review by: K. R. Bradley, 1985 Article | Recommended (Should Read) | review of Wallace-Hadrill
Suetonius and Chronology in the 'de vita Neronis' - Paul A. Gallivan, 1974 Article | Core (Must Read) | Importance for chronology in reign of Nero
Description of Personal Appearance in Plutarch and Suetonius: The Use of Statues as Evidence - A. E. Wardman, 1967 Article | Core (Must Read)
Roman Descriptions of Personal Appearance in History and Biography - Elizabeth Cornelia Evans, 1935 Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Personal Appearance in the Biography of the Roman Emperors - H. V. Canter, 1928 Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Politics and society in imperial Rome - Aloys Winterling, 2009 Book | Core (Must Read) | Read ch6 Meaningful Madness: The Emperor Caligula. You need to read this short chapter and evaluate how the author views the issue of Caligula's madness as a historical problem in need of a solution
Suetonius -Articles on his career (9 items)
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Suetonius - Wallace-Hadrill, Andrew, 1995 Book | Core (Must Read)
Suetonius as "ab epistulis" to Hadrian and the Early History of the Imperial Correspondence - Hugh Lindsay, 1994 Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Hadrian's Dismissal of Suetonius: A Reasoned Response - Barry Baldwin, 1997 Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Suetonius as "Ab Epistulis": An African Connection - David Wardle, 2002 Article | Recommended (Should Read)
The Travels of Suetonius Tranquillus - Ronald Syme, 1981 Article | Recommended (Should Read) | Pieces together the travels of Suetonius with few concessions to those who are beginning in the subject!
The Date of Composition of Suetonius' Caesares - Gavin Townend, 1959 Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Suetonius in the Civil Service under Hadrian - Henry A. Sanders, 1944 Article | Recommended (Should Read) | a little dated but much information here
Suetonius - Baldwin, B., 1983 Book | Core (Must Read)
Suetonius and His Biographies - John C. Rolfe, 1913 Article | Background (Could Read) | Rather old but provides an introduction
General Secondary Sources (9 items)
Agrippina: sex, power, and politics in the early Empire - Barrett, Anthony, 1996 Book | Background (Could Read)
The Cambridge ancient history: Vol.10: Augustan Empire, 43 B.C.-A.D. 69 ; edited by Alan K. Bowman, Edward Champlin, Andrew Lintott - Bowman, Alan K., Champlin, Edward, Lintott, A. W., 1996 Book | Recommended (Should Read)
A Study of Cassius Dio - Millar, Fergus, 1964 Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Who's who in the ancient world: a handbook to the survivors of the Greek and Roman classics - Radice, Betty, 1973 Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Documents illustrating the principates of Gaius, Claudius, and Nero - Smallwood, E M., 1967 Book | Background (Could Read)
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Tacitus - Syme, Ronald, 1958 Book | Background (Could Read) | Vol. I & II
Dynastic commemoration and imperial portraiture in the Julio-Claudian period - Rose, Charles Brian, 1997 Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Suetonius - Wallace-Hadrill, Andrew, 1995 Book | Core (Must Read)
Aspects of Roman history, AD 14-117 - Alston, Richard, 1998 Book | Core (Must Read)
Fire of Rome and Christian Persecution (8 items)
The great fire of Rome: the fall of the emperor Nero and his city - Dando-Collins, Stephen, 2010 Book | Core (Must Read)
Christian persecution, martyrdom, and orthodoxy - De Ste. Croix, G. E. M., Whitby, Michael, Streeter, Joseph, 2006 Book | Core (Must Read)
The early Christians in Rome - Spence-Jones, H D M., [1910] Book | Core (Must Read)
The annals of imperial Rome - Tacitus, Cornelius, Grant, Michael, 1956 Book | Core (Must Read)
Lives of the Caesars - Catharine Edwards, Suetonius, 2000 Book | Core (Must Read) | Various translations.
The Twelve Caesars: The Lives of the Roman Emperors - Suetonius, c2008 Book | Core (Must Read)
See also relevant sections in books on Nero.
The Roman games: a sourcebook - Futrell, Alison, 2006 Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Emperor Gaius (Caligula) (6 items)
The emperor Gaius (Caligula) - Balsdon, J P V D., 1934 Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Caligula: the corruption of power - Barrett, Anthony, 2000 Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Dio's Roman history - Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Cary, Earnest, Foster, Herbert Baldwin,
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1914-27 Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Vol. VII
Caligula: Emperor of Rome - Ferrill, Arther, 1991 Book
The twelve Caesars - Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, 2007 Book | Core (Must Read)
Suetonius' Life of Caligula: a commentary - Wardle, D., 1994 Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Claudius (8 items)
Claudius - Levick, Barbara, 1990 Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Dio's Roman history - Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Cary, Earnest, Foster, Herbert Baldwin, 1914-27 Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Vol. VIII
I, Claudius: from the autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Emperor of the Romans, born 10 BC, murdered and deified AD 54 - Graves, Robert, 1976 Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Claudius the God: and his wife Messalina - Graves, Robert, 2006 Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Claudius - Levick, Barbara, 1990 Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Claudius, the emperor, and his achievement - Momigliano, Arnaldo, Hogarth, W. D., 1934 Book | Recommended (Should Read)
The Emperor Claudius - V M. Scramuzza, 1971 Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Claudius Caesar: image and power in the early Roman empire - Osgood, Josiah, c2011 Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Nero (11 items)
Nero: the man and the legend - Bishop, J., [1964] Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Suetonius' Life of Nero: an historical commentary - Bradley, K R., 1978 Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Nero - Champlin, Edward, 2003
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Book | Core (Must Read)
Dio's Roman history - Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Cary, Earnest, Foster, Herbert Baldwin, 1914-27 Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Vol. VIII
Reflections of Nero: culture, history & representation - Elsner, Ja ́ s, Masters, Jamie, 1994 Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Nero: the end of a dynasty - Griffin, Miriam T., 1984 Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Drusus Claudius Nero - Hermes, Othniel Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Nero - Malitz, Ju ̈ rgen, 2005 Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Nero, Seneca and Tigellinus - T. K. Roper Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Dissidence and Literature Under Nero - Rudich, Vasily, 1997 Book | Recommended (Should Read)
The twelve Caesars - Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, 2007 Book | Core (Must Read)
Galba, Otho &Vitellius (8 items)
Dio's Roman history - Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Cary, Earnest, Foster, Herbert Baldwin, 1914-27 Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Vol. VIII
Lives - Plutarch, Perrin, Bernadotte, 1914-26 Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Vol. X
69 A.D.: the year of four emperors - Morgan, Gwyn, 2006 Book | Core (Must Read)
Lives - Plutarch, Perrin, Bernadotte, 1914-26 Book | Core (Must Read) | Vol. XI
The twelve Caesars - Suetonius Tranquillus, Gaius, Graves, Robert, Grant, Michael, 1979 Book | Core (Must Read)
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[Historiae] The histories, book III; edited by K Wellesley - Tacitus, Cornelius, [1972] Book | Core (Must Read) | Other editions and translations available.
The long year, AD 69 - Wellesley, K., 1975 Book | Core (Must Read)
Structure and Fate in Suetonius' Life of Galba - D. Thomas Benediktson, 1997 Article | Core (Must Read)
Vespian and Titus (4 items)
Dio's Roman history - Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Cary, Earnest, Foster, Herbert Baldwin, 1914-27 Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Vol. VIII
The Emperor Titus - Jones, Brian W., c1984 Book | Core (Must Read)
Vespasian - Levick, Barbara, 1999 Book | Core (Must Read)
The twelve Caesars - Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, 2007 Book | Core (Must Read)
Domitian (4 items)
Agricola and Domitian - T. A. Dorey, 1960 Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Domitian's Attitude to the Senate - B. W. Jones, 1973 Article | Recommended (Should Read)
The Emperor Domitian - Jones, Brian W, 1992 Book | Core (Must Read)
Select documents of the principates of the Flavian emperors, including the year of revolution, A. D. 68-96 - McCrum, Michael, Woodhead, A. G., 1961 Book | Recommended (Should Read)
The Oxford dictionary of the classical world - J. W. Roberts, 2005- Book
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