Lecture Consolidation - Further Reading
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Autumn Term 2011
Lecture 1 - Caesar \ Lecture 2 - Triumvirate \ Lecture 3 - Actium \ Lecture 4 - Aftermath of Actium \ Lecture 5 - Civil Crisis \ Lecture 6 - Powers of Augustus \ Lecture 7 - Religion \ Lecture 8 - Social legislation \ Lecture 9 - Senate \ Lecture 10 - Equestrian order
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Spring Term 2012
Lecture 14 - Propertius \ Lecture 15 - Horace \ Lecture 16 - Ovid \ Lecture 17 - Coins
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Summer Term
Autumn Term 2011
Lecture 1 - Julius Caesar, villain or victim?
Primary texts:
- Suetonius Life of Deified Julius
- Plutarch Life of Caesar
- Dio Cassius books 43-44
Secondary reading
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Gelzer, M. (1968) (trans. P. Needham) Caesar. Politician and Statesman
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@Griffin, M.T. (2009) Blackwell Companion to Julius Caesar [e-book]
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Wyke, M. (2006) Julius Caesar in western culture
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Rawson, E. (1975) ‘Caesar’s heritage: Hellenistic kings and their Roman equals’, JRS 65: 148-59
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@Rawson, E. (1994) ‘Caesar: Civil War and Dictatorship’, in Cambridge Ancient History IX 2nd edn, 424-67 [e-book]
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@Rawson, E. (1994) ‘The aftermath of the Ides’, in Cambridge Ancient History IX 2nd edn, 468-90 [e-book]
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@Morgan, L. (1997) '"Levi quidem de re…": Julius Caesar as tyrant and pedant', Journal of Roman Studies 87: 23-40
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@Sedley, D. (1997) 'The ethics of Brutus and Cassius' JRS 87: 41-53
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@Syme, R. (1939) Roman Revolution chaps.4, 7-8 [e-book]
- Tatum, W.J. (2008)Always I am Caesar [DG 261.T38]
For a modern perspective on the characters involved, try the historical novels by Steven Saylor, Rubicon; Last Seen in Massilia.
Primary texts:
- Sherk, Rome and the Greek East nos 85-87
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Reynolds, J.M. (1982) Aphrodisias and Rome chap.3 – there’s a lot of detailed commentary here: concentrate on reading the translated inscriptions [DS 156.A6]
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Laudatio Turiae = LACTOR T37; Lefkowitz and Fant, Women’s Life in Greece and Rome no.168
Secondary reading:
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@Pelling, C. (1996) ‘The triumviral period’ in CAH X (2nd edn) 1-69 [e-book]
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@Syme, R. (1939) The Roman Revolution chaps. 14 [e-book]
- R.A. Gurval (1995) Actium and Augustus. The Politics and Emotions of Civil War [Learning Grid]
- @W.W. Tarn 'The Battle of Actium', JRS 21 (1931) 173-99
- P. Zanker (1988) Power of Images chapter 3 [Learning Grid]
- N. Purcell, 'The Nicopolitan synoecism and Roman urban policy' in Nicopolis I (offprint in dept office)
- @Harrison, S. (1997) 'The Survival and Supremacy of Rome. The Unity of the Shield of Aeneas,' JRS 87: 70-76
Lecture 4 - Aftermath of Actium
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Millar, F. (2000) 'The first revolution: imperator Caesar, 36-28 BC', in La Révolution Romaine après Ronald Syme. Bilans et perspectives pp1-30
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@Anderson, R.D., Parsons, P., and Nisbet, R.G.M. (1979) 'Elegiacs by Gallus from Qasr Ibrîm,' Journal of Roman Studies 69: 125 for Gallus papyrus
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@Wiedemann, T. (1986) ‘The fetiales: a reconsideration’, CQ 36.2: 478-90
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Gurval, R.A. (1995) Actium and Augustus: the politics and emotions of civil war [Learning Grid]
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Gallus inscription - LACTOR P5
Lecture 5 - Responses to civil crisis
Primary sources:
- Eclogues (eg Penguin, Guy Lee 1984, with Coleman CUP commentary): online translations also available: MIT; Loeb
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Theocritus Idylls 2, 11: online translation from Loeb
Then, if this new to you, start with Hardie, P. (1998) Virgil (Greece & Rome New Surveys no28) [PA 6825.H2] before dipping into some of the more detailed studies below.
- Griffin, J. (1985) ‘Augustan poetry and the life of luxury’ in Latin Poets and Roman Life [= updated version of JRS 1976]
- Breed, B.W. (2006) Pastoral inscriptions: reading and writing Virgil's Eclogues [PA 6825.B675]
- Saunders, T. (2008) Bucolic ecology: Virgil’s Eclogues and the environmental literary tradition [PA 6804.B7]
- Hardie, P. (1999) Virgil. Critical Assessments vol. 1+2 (dip into chapters that sound interesting) [PA 6825.A3]
Lecture 6 - The pre-eminence of Augustus: structures of power and status
- @Bowman, A.K., E. Champlin, A. Lintott (eds) Cambridge Ancient History X2 (Cambridge University Press: 1996) - ch.3 by Crook [e-book]
- *@Ferrary, J-L. (2009) 'The powers of Augustus', in Edmondson, ed. Augustus (EUP)
- @*Galinsky, K. (2005) The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Augustus – Part One: chapters by Eder and Gruen [e-book]
- @Lacey, W.K. (1974) ‘Octavian in the senate: Jan. 27 B.C.’, Journal of Roman Studies 64: 176-84
- Lacey, W.K. (1996) Augustus and the principate: the evolution of the system [DG 279.L2] ch3
- @Millar, F. (1968) ‘The ‘restoration of the Republic’ in 27 B.C.’, Classical Review 16: 265-66
- Wallace-Hadrill, A. (1993) Augustan Rome chap.2
Lecture 7 - Revival and innovation in religious cults
- Beard, M., North, J., Price, S. (1998) Religions of Rome I chaps 3-4
- @Bowman, A.K., E. Champlin, A. Lintott (eds) (1996) Cambridge Ancient History X2 - chapter by Price [e-book]
- @Levick, B. (1982) ‘Morals, politics & the fall of the Roman Republic’, Greece and Rome 29: 53-62
- Lott, J.B. (2004) The Neighborhoods of Augustan Rome (CUP) [DG 66.L6]
- @Scheid, J. (2009) ‘Augustus and Roman religion: continuity, conservatism and innovation’ in Galinsky, ed. Cambridge Companion to Age of Augustus [e-book]
Lecture 8 - Social legislation
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LACTOR chapter S
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@McGinn, T.A.J. (2003) Prostitution, Sexuality, and the Law in Ancient Rome [e-book] esp ch.3-6
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Rawson, E. (1987) 'Discrimina ordinum: the lex Julia theatralis', Papers of the British School at Rome 55 83-114 = *Roman Culture and Society. Collected Papers (1991) 508-45 [DG78.R.2]
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@Treggiari, S. (1991) Roman Marriage (Oxford) 60-80, 277-98 [e-book]
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Wallace-Hadrill, A. (1981) 'Family and inheritance in the Augustan marriage-laws', Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society 207 [Arts Periodical]
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Wallace-Hadrill, A. (1993) Augustan Rome (1993) chapter 5
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@Brunt, P.A. (1984) 'The role of the Senate in the Augustan regime', Classical Quarterly 34.2: 423-44
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@Crook, J.A. (1996) ‘Augustus: power, authority and achievement’ in CAH X2 pp.113-46 [e-book]
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@Talbert, R. (1996) ‘The Senate and senatorial and equestrian posts’, in CAH X2 pp. 324-43 [e-book]
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Nicolet, C. (1984) ‘Augustus, government and the propertied classes’, in Caesar Augustus. Seven Aspects eds Millar & Segal, esp. pp. 89-96
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Rowe, G. (2002) Princes and Political Cultures (Michigan UP) chapter 1
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@Syme, R. (1939) The Roman Revolution chapter 6 [e-book]
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LACTOR T30-33
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Millar, F. (1993) Emperor in the Roman World pp.279-84
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Nicolet, C. (1984) ‘Augustus, government and the propertied classes’ in Caesar Augustus. Seven Aspects
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Rowe, G. (2002) Princes and political cultures: the new Tiberian senatorial decrees chapter 2
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@Wiseman, T.P. (1970) ‘The definition of “Eques Romanus”’ Historia 19: 67-83
Primary texts:
Propertius Elegies bk 4
Secondary reading:
@Gale, M. ‘Propertius 2.7: militia amoris and the ironies of elegy’, JRS 87 (1997)
@Griffin , J. ‘Propertius and Antony ’ JRS 67 (1977) = chap. 2 Latin Poets and Roman Life (1985)
Hubbard, M. Propertius (2001, corrected reprint)
Kennedy, D. ‘“Augustan” and “anti-Augustan”: reflections on terms of reference’, in A. Powell, ed., Roman poetry and propaganda in the age of Augustus (1992) 26-58
Primary sources:
LACTOR G20, 40, 48
Horace Odes 3.1-6; 4.4, 4.5, 4.14
Secondary reading:
R.O.A.M. Lyne, Horace behind the public poetry (1995), espec. chapters 1-4, 7, 11-12
Primary Texts:
LACTOR G55-56; Art of Love bk.1; Metamorphoses bk.15; Fasti bk.1; Tristia 2
Secondary Reading:
Syme, R. History in Ovid (1978) chaps. 10, 12
Weiden Boyd, B., ed. (2002) Brill’s Companion to Ovid – chapters 1, 7 by White, Fantham [PA 6537 B7]
@Wiedemann, T. CQ 25 (1975) 264-71 (on Tristia 2)
Herbert Brown, G. (1994) Ovid and the Fasti. An historical study [PA 6519 F9]
Howgego, C. (1995) Ancient History from Coins
LACTOR pp.12-15
@Norena, C. (2001) ‘The communication of the emperor’s virtues’, JRS 91: 146-68
Norena, C. (2011) Imperial ideals in the Roman West: representation, circulation, power
