Sources for Augustus and Tiberius

Books: (see also General Reference Works)

Bartman, Elizabeth. Portraits of Livia: Imaging the Imperial Woman in Augustan Rome. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Grant, Michael. History of Rome. New York: Scribner, 1978.

Kebric, Robert B. Roman People. Mountain View: Mayfield, 1993.

Kleiner, Diana E., E., and Susan B. Matheson. I Claudia: Women in Ancient Rome. New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1996.

Mellor, Ronald, ed. From Augustus to Nero: The First Dynasty of Imperial Rome. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1990.

Suetonius, Gaius. The Twelve Caesars. Edited by Michael Grant and translated by Robert Graves. New York: Penguin, 1979.

Zanker, Paul. The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus. Translated by Alan Shapiro. Jerome Lectures; 16th series. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1988.

External Links:

• Primary Sources:
  • “The Deeds of the Divine Augustus” by Augustus ( English translation of Res Gestae Divi Augusti)
  • The Annals by Publius Cornelius Tacitus (translated by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb)
  • Suetonius, “Divus Augustus” (an outline by John Paul Adams)
  • Augustan Encomiums, c. 31 BCE - 14 CE (Ancient History Sourcebook)
• Secondary Sources:
  • De Imperatoribus Romanis: Augustus (biography by Nina C. Coppolino)
  • Augustus: Images of Power (Mark Morford, University of Virginia)
  • Age of Augustus Internet Resources (Michael Arnush, Skidmore College)
  • The Riley Collection: Augustus
  • The Personae of Augustus (John Paul Adams)
  • Building Projects in Rome in Augustus' time (John Paul Adams)
  • The Mausoleum of Augustus and the Res Gestae (John Paul Adams)
  • Ara Pacis Augustae (Bill Thayer, Lacus Curtius)
  • Coins of Augustus and Tiberius (Buerger Collection of Coins, Lawrence University)
  • De Imperatoribus Romanis: Tiberius (biography by Garrett G. Fagan)
  • Ænigmates Tiberii: Enigmas of Tiberius (answers to certain puzzling questions supposedly posed by Tiberius, by Horace W. LaBadie, Jr.)
  • “The Deification of Roman Women” by Marleen B. Flory (Ancient History Bulletin 9.3-4 (1995) 127-134)
  • Prima Porta: Villa of Livia
• Pages related to I, Claudius:
  • Fact or Fiction? From the ancient sources to the BBC: an electronic reference to the sources for I, Claudius (St. Anselm College)
  • Roman Civilization Course page with links to worksheets for each episode of I, Claudius

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busts of Augustus and family	cameo of Augustus with aegis	denarius of Octavian with Venus and Octavian as general	cameo of deified Augustus	bust of Augustus with corona civica
Heraklion Archaeological Museum, 1st century CE	British Museum, 1st century CE	Pergamon Museum, pre 31 BCE	Cologne R-G Museum, 1st century CE	Munich Glyptoteck, 45-50 CE

Altar of the Lares	Prima Porta Augustus	statue of Augustus as Zeus	statue of togate Augustus	statue of Augustus as pontifex	bust of Octavia (?)
Uffizi Museum, end 1st century BCE	Vatican Museum, end 1st century BCE	Hermitage Museum	Uffizi Museum	Terme Museum	Arezzo, Archaeological Museum, end 1st century BCE

bust of Agrippa	Roma panel and family procession	imperial family procession	procession of senators	equestrian statue of Augustan prince (?)
cast from EUR	Ara Pacis, Rome	Ara Pacis, Rome	Ara Pacis, Rome	British Museum

bust of Augustan prince (?)	bust of Agrippina Maior	statue of Livia	statue of Livia	headless statue of Livia
Mainz Landesmuseum, 1st century CE	cast from EUR	Madrid Archaeological Museum, 1st century CE	Madrid Archaeological Museum (cast from EUR)	Munich, Glyptoteck, after 14 CE

bust of Livia	bust of Livia	bust of Livia	cameo of Livia with bust of Augustus	statue of Livia
Vienna KH Museum, end 1st century BCE	British Museum, c. 30-20 BCE	Hermitage Museum, 1st century CE	Vienna KH Museum, after 14 CE	Vatican Museum, end 1st century BCE

statue of Drusus Maior	bust of Drusus Maior	bronze head of Tiberius	bust of Tiberius	bust of Tiberius
Vatican Gregorian Museum	cast from EUR	British Museum. 1st century CE	British Museum. 1st century CE	Hermitage Museum. 1st century CE

ruins of Villa Iovis	Villa Iovis, execution point	bust of Germanicus	bust of Drusus Minor	bust of Agrippina Minor
Capri	Capri	cast from EUR	Uffizi Museum	Munich, Glyptoteck

bust of Agrippina Minor	statue of Agrippina Minor with goddess attributes	bust of Caligula
Getty Museum, c. 60 CE	Vatican Gregorian Museum, 1st century CE	Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st century CE

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