Forum of
Augustus: website devoted to recent work and renovations; good
description of the forum, with good photos etc. (maintained by the city of
Rome)* = on our reserve shelf in OUGL
NB: There are a number of useful sites devoted to or relevant to Augustus....and there are a number of useless sites. Here are some of the better ones I've run across, and I'll update this list periodically. Let me know, too, if you find a site you think should be listed and I'll have a look.
Forum of
Augustus: website devoted to recent work and renovations; good
description of the forum, with good photos etc. (maintained by the city of
Rome)Bowman, Alan K., E. Champlin, and A. Lintott, edd. The Cambridge Ancient History. Second edition. Vol. X: The Augustan Empire, 43 B.C.-A.D.69. Cambridge 1996. [Very thorough, recent historical treatment]
Earl, D. The Age of Augustus. New York 1968. [An excellent book for general reader with lavish illustrations]
*Galinsky, K. Augustan Culture. Princeton 1996. [thorough, wide-ranging study of the subject]
*Gurval, R. Actium and Augustus. Ann Arbor 1995. [specialized study of the 'Actium myth', but good case study of the nature of Augustan propaganda and what modern scholars have made of it]
*Jones, A. H. M. Augustus. London: Chatto & Windus 1970.
Rowell, H.T. Rome in the Augustan Age. Norman, OK 1962.
Southern, P. Augustus. New York: Routledge 1998. [good, new biography that would be our main text if it were not so expensive!]
Syme, R. The Roman Revolution. Oxford 1939.
______. The Augustan Aristocracy. Oxford 1986.
Wells, C. The Roman Empire. 2nd edition. Stanford 1995. [very good account of the reign of Augustus in Chaps. 3-4]
Millar, F. and E. Segal, edd. Caesar Augustus: Seven Aspects. Oxford 1984.
Reinhold, M., ed. The Golden Age of Augustus. Toronto 1978.
___________ and P.M. Swan, edd. Between Republic and Empire: Interpretations of Augustus and His Principate. Berkeley 1990.
Winkes, R., ed. The Age of Augustus. Providence 1985.
Braund, D.C. Augustus to Nero: A Sourcebook on Roman History 31 BC - AD 68. London/Sydney 1985.
*Chisholm, Kitty and John Ferguson. Rome, the Augustan age: a source book. Oxford 1981.
Levick, B. The government of the Roman Empire: a source book. London 1985.
Lewis, N. The Roman Principate: 27 B.C. - 285 A.D. Toronto 1974.
_______ and M. Reinhold, edd. Roman Civilization. Vol. II: The Empire. New York 1955.
Shelton, J-A. As the Romans Did. A Sourcebook in Roman Social History. New York/Oxford 1988.
Sherk, R.K. The Roman Empire: Augustus to Hadrian. Translated Documents of Greece and Rome, vol. 6. Cambridge University Press 1988.
Kuttner, Ann L. Dynasty and Empire in the Age of Augustus: The Case of the Boscoreale Cups. University of California Press 1995.
Sutherland, C.H.V. Roman Coins. New York 1974.
Walker, Susan and Andrew Burnett. The Image of Augustus. London: British Museum Publications 1981.
*Zanker, P. The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus. Translated by Alan Shapiro. Ann Arbor 1988.
White, P. Promised Verse: Poets in the Society of Augustan Rome. Harvard 1993.
Powell, A., ed. Roman poetry and propaganda in the age of Augustus. London: Bristol Classical Press 1992.