A Sourcebook on the Augustan Age

This section will eventually cover Roman politics, administration, art, religion, social history, literature, and philosophy in the Augustan age.

For now, please refer to these soucebooks:

• Chisholm K. and Ferguson J. Rome: The Augustan Age. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981.
• Reinhold M. The Golden Age of Augustus. 2nd edition. Sarasota: Samuel Stevens & Co., 1978.
• Rogers RS, Scott K and Ward MM. Caesaris Augusti Res Gestae ate Fragmenta. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1990.
• Malcovati H. Imeratoris Caesaris Augusti: Operum Fragmenta. Aug. Taurinorum, In aedibus Paraviae, 1962.
• Lewis N and Reinhold M. Roman Civilization: Selected Readings. Volume 1: The Republic and the Augustan Age. 3rd edition. ew York: Columbia University Press, 1990.
• Braund DC. Augustus to Nero: A Sourcebook on Roman History 31 BC - AD 68. Totowa: Barnes and Noble Books, 1985.
• Mellor R. From Augustus to Nero: The First Dynasty of Imperial Rome. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1990.
  - Includes secondary texts. ed. Kaegi; White Readings in Western Civilization Rome: Late Republic and Principate Volume 2 Ides of March.

• Suetonius' Divine Augustus.
  

• Augustus' own account of his accomplishments—Res Gestae Divi Augusti

• Cassius Dio's reign of Augustus, Books 45 to 56.
  esp. Dio’s account of the Settlement of 27 BCE (53.2-17) and 23 BCE (53.32).

• Tacitus. The Annals Book 1.1 – 10.

• Appian. The Civil Wars Book 3 to 5

• Early life: Nicolaus of Damascus' biography of Augustus.

  Macrobius. Saturnalia http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Macrobius/Saturnalia/2*.html#4 Book 2.4 - a look at the light-hearted Augustus.

• Cicero is very important for Octavian’s debut too, including quips like:

  Original	English translation	Author/Speaker	Source(s)	Context	Notes
  Laudandum adulescentem, ornandum, tollendum	The young man should be praised, honoured, and immortalised.*	Cicero?	Cicero Ad Fam. 11.20.1	Of Octavian, who replied: Non committal ut tolli possim!	*using Pat Southern's translation. Cicero denied saying that (Ad. Fam. 11.21).
  o puer, qui omnia nomini debes	You, boy, owe everything to a name.	Mark Antony	Cicero, Philippics 13.11.24-25	Of Octavian

  
  

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