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BASIC REFERENCE BIBLIOGRAPHY

Classical texts

Loeb [PA.6156 (Latin) and PA.3612 (Greek)] and Aris & Phillips editions (facing English and Latin/Greek) will allow you to pinpoint a reference precisely.

Penguin and Oxford World Classics contain only English translations, but are good for getting an overall feel for a text.

For an overview of an author, see

• Kenney, E. J. and Clausen, W. V. eds. (1982), The Cambridge History of Classical Literature II: Latin Literature (Cambridge: CUP) [PA 3001.C2]
• Howatson, M.C. (1989), The Oxford companion to classical literature (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2nd edn) [ref PA 3001.O9]
• Sharrock, A. and Ash, R. (2002), Fifty Key Classical Authors (Routledge, London) [PA 3002.Z5]

Dictionaries

• The Oxford Classical Dictionary (OCD) (3rd edn revised 2003) [ref DE 5.O9]: thematic and specific entries on almost any author, place, issue or institution.
• March, J.R. (1998), Cassell dictionary of classical mythology (London: Cassell) [ref BL 715.M2]
  
• Shipley, G. et al. (2006) The Cambridge Dictionary of Classical Civilization (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press) [DE 5.C2]

GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY

Ahl F. 1976, Lucan: An Introduction (New York)
Barthes R., 1982 'Tacitus and the funerary baroque' in S. Sontag A Barthes Reader London 162-6 or in Critical Essays (tr. R. Howard) Illinois 1972
Betensky A. 'Neronian style, Tacitean content' Latomus 37 (1978) 419-35
Carbone M.E. 'The Octavia: structure, date and authenticity', Phoenix 31 1977, 48-67
Dorey T.A. (ed.) 1969 Tacitus London
Dunkle J.R. 1971 'The rhetorical tyrant in Roman historiography' Classical World 65, 12-20
Eden P.T. (ed) 1984 Seneca: Apocolocyntosis Cambridge
Elsner J. and Masters J. (ed.) 1994, Reflections on Nero (Routledge: London)
Garson R.W. 1975, 'The pseudo-Senecan Octavia: a plea for Nero?' Latomus34 754-6
Goodyear F. 'History and Biography' in Cambridge History of Classical Literature Vol 2 1982, 642-55, 661-4
Griffin M. 1976 Seneca: a Philosopher in Politics Oxford
Griffin M. and Barnes J. 1989 Philosophia Togata: essays on philosophy and Roman society Oxford
Henderson J. 1989, 'Tacitus: the world in pieces' Ramus 18, 167-210
Herington C.J. 1982, 'The Younger Seneca' in Cambridge History of Classical Literature Vol 2, 511-33
Herrington C.J. 1961, 'Octavia praetexta: a survey' CQ ns 11, 18-30
Kragelund P. 1988, 'The prefect's dilemma and the date of the Octavia ' CQns 38, 492-508
Marti B. 1952: 'Seneca's Apocolocyntosis and Octavia : a diptych?' AJPh73, 24-36
Masters J 1992 Poetry and Civil War in Lucan's De Bello Civili (Cambridge)
Mc Culloch H Jr 1980, 'Literary Augury at the end of Annals 13' Phoenix34, 237-42
Momigliano A. 1990, 'Tacitus and the Tacitist tradition' in The classicist foundations of modern historiography California
Pease A.S. 1920, 'Is the Octavia a play of Seneca?', CJ 15, 388-403
Pease A.S. 1924, 'The Octavia once more' CP 19, 80-3
Poe J.P. 1989:, 'Octavia praetexta: and its Senecan model' AJPH 110, 434-59
Segal C. 1973, 'Tacitus and poetic history: the end of Annals 13' Ramus 2, 107-26
Sullivan J.P. 1985, Literature and Politics in the Age of Nero Ithaca and London
Wallace-Hadrill A. 1983, Suetonius: the scholar and his CaesarsLondon
Williams G. 1978, Change and Decline: Roman Literature in the Early Empire (Berkeley)
Woodman A.J. 1993, 'Amateur dramatics at the court of Nero: Tac Ann. 15. 48-74 in Luce T.J. and Woodman A.J. (eds) Tacitus and the Tacitean Tradition Princeton
Woodman A.J. 1988, Rhetoric in Classical Historiography (Croom Helm)