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An Augustus Primer

Terrorist, demagogue, tyrant,
last and greatest of the of the republican warlords,
or greatest emperor of Rome?
The Golden Age?

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Augustus - Fourree denarius - c.27 BC
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Irene's Travelogue: Germania 1999

Ancient Rome as seen in the year 2001

Irene's travelogue 2002 almost complete

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cameo of Augustus, Cologne

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Augustus

The Deeds of the Divine Augustus (Res Gestae)

Appian of Alexandria

The Civil Wars

The Histories of Appian, The Civil Wars (Lacus Curtius)

Book IV and V apply

Dio Cassius
(Cassius Dio)

The Roman History:
The Reign of Augustus

Dio (Cassius Dio) - Roman History (Lacus Curtius)

Books 45 through 56 apply

Note: The book at the right starts at Book 50.

Cicero

Selections from Letters on the Rise of Augustus
Letters, etc., in: Perseus, Perseus 4.0 Texts

Gibbon

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Chapter 3

Nicolaus of Damascus

Life of Augustus

Paterculus

The Battle of Teutoburg Forest

Suetonius

The Twelve Caesars

De Vita Caesarum: Divus Augustus
Rolfe translation

De Vita Caesarum: The Divine Augustus
Worthington translation

Tacitus

The Annals

Books I through III apply

Other

From Caius Julius Caesar Octavianus to Augustus Caesar - Ancient/Classical History
DIR Augustus
Sources for Augustus and Tiberius
Particularly useful for the numerous photos of statues, etc. of the imperial family at the bottom of the page
Augustan Age - Ancient/Classical History
Octavian and Antony: The Rise of Augustus (John Porter)
Caesar Augustus - virgil.org unfortunately, some of the links are broken
The Mausoleum of Augustus
Ancient History Sourcebook: Egypt under the Roman Empire
A Description of Egypt Under the Principate
Strabo, Geography, c. 22 CE
Suetonius (?): The Life of Horace
Maecenas, Gaius
The Virgil Home Page— Aeneid and extensive links

BOOKS - NONFICTION
The book below also gives some insights into the reign of Augustus: Barbara Levick Roman Imperial Biographies Tiberius the Politician	G. P. Baker	Ronald Syme	Karl Galinsky	Anthony A. Barrett
	Augustus	The Roman Revolution	Augustan Culture	Livia: First Lady of Imperial Rome
	Pat Southern "Mark Antony" and "Cleopatra" are smaller companion books to "Augustus"			Anthony Everitt
	Augustus	Mark Antony	Cleopatra	Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor
	Philip Matyszak	Josiah Osgood
	The Sons of Caesar: Imperial Rome's First Dynasty	Caesar's Legacy: Civil War and the Emergence of the Roman Empire
	Tony Clunn	Peter S. Wells	Adrian Murdoch
	The Quest for the Lost Roman Legions: Discovering the Varus Battlefield	The Battle That Stopped Rome: Emperor Augustus, Arminius, and the Slaughter of the Legions in the Teutoburg Forest	Rome's Greatest Defeat: Massacre in the Teutoburg Forest

BOOKS - FICTION
Hermann Broch		Robert Graves
The Death of Virgil not an easy read!	Der Tod des Vergil original text	I, Claudius	the sequel, though not applying here: Claudius the God	Ich Claudius Kaiser und Gott
		The German edition of Graves (above right) is a revised and streamlined version of the English orginal in one volume, translation supervised by Graves.
Allan Massie		Colleen McCullough		John Williams
Augustus	Anthony	The October Horse	Antony and Cleopatra, A Novel	Augustus

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