Hopkins, Keith, Conquerors and Slaves (Cambridge, 1978)
Griffin, Jasper, Virgil (London, 2001)
Jenkyns, Richard, Virgil's Experience: Nature and History, Times, Names, and Places (Oxford, 1998)
ANCIENT SOURCES
For Rome's early history see the following Penguin translations:
Polybius, Histories: The Rise of the Roman Empire (London, 1979)
Livy, The Early History of Rome (Bks 1-5) (London, 2002)
Livy, Rome and Italy (Bks 6-10) (London, 1982)
For Virgil, see:
Georgics (Oxford, 2006) and The Aeneid (London, 1990)
I REVOLUTION
The most accessible narrative account of the life of Tiberius Gracchus can be found in:
Richardson, Keith: Daggers in the Forum: The Revolutionary Lives and Violent Deaths of the Gracchus Brothers (London, 1976).
Other key works are:
Astin, A. E., Scipio Aemilianus (Oxford, 1967)
Stockton, David, The Gracchi (Oxford, 1979)
Astin, A.E.; Walbank, F.W.; Frederiksen, M.W.; Ogilvie, RJV1. (eds), Cambridge Ancient History, Volume 8: 'Rome and the Mediterranean to 133 вс' (Cambridge, 1989)
Beard, Mary and Crawford, Michael, Rome in the Late Republic. Problems and Interpretations (London, 1999)
Brunt, P. A., Italian Manpower (Oxford 1971)
ANCIENT SOURCES
For the Roman conquest of the Mediterranean see:
Polybius, Histories: The Rise of the Roman Empire (London, 1979) (selected excerpts)
Livy, The War with Hannibal (Bks 21-30) (London, 1970)
Livy, Rome and the Mediterranean (Bks 31-45) (London, 1976)
In Loeb Classical Library edition see:
Polybius, The Histories (Cambridge, Mass., 1922-27)
Appian, Roman History (Cambridge, Mass., 1912-13) both of which give the full Greek text and translation.
For accounts of the lives of Tiberius Gracchus and Gaius Gracchus see:
Plutarch, Makers of Rome (London, 1965)
Appian, The Civil Wars (London, 1996)
All the primary sources relating to the Gracchus brothers have been usefully collated in:
Stockton, David, From The Gracchi To Sulla: Sources for Roman History, 133-80 вс (London, 1981)
II CAESAR
The most accessible, well-researched and exciting narrative of the fell of the Roman republic can be found in:
Holland, Tom, Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic (London, 2003)
Two authoritative biographies of Caesar are:
Gelzer, Matthias, Caesar, Politician and Statesman (Oxford, 1968) Meier, Christian, Caesar (London, 1996)
Other key works for the late Republic are:
Beard, Mary and Crawford, Michael, Rome in the Late Republic. Problems and Interpretations (London, 1999)
Weinstock, Stefan, Drvus Julius (Oxford, 1971)
Crook, J.A.; Lintott, Andrew; Rawson, Elizabeth (eds) Cambridge Ancient History, Volume 9: The Last Age of the Roman Republic, 146-43 ВС (Cambridge, 1989)
ANCIENT SOURCES
There is a wealth of ancient sources for this period of Roman history. For Caesar's writings see:
Caesar, The Gallic War (Oxford, 1996)
Caesar, The Civil War (London, 1967)
For the contemporary letters of Cicero and his correspondents see:
Cicero's Letters to Atticus (London, 1978)
Cicero's Letters to his Friends (London, 1978)
Cicero, Selected Letters (London, 1986) (one volume)
For the ancient biographies of Pompey and Caesar see:
Plutarch, Fall of the Roman Republic (London, 1972)
Suetonius, Lives ofthe Caesars (Oxford, 2000) Qulius Caesar)
Other ancient narratives of the last decades of the republic are:
Appian, The Civil Wars (London, 1996)
Lucan, Civil War (Oxford, 1999) (poetic account)
AUGUSTUS
Wallace-Hadrill, Andrew, Augustan Rome (Bristol, 1993)
Zanker, Paul, The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus (Ann Arbor, 1988)
Beard, Mary; North, John; Price, Simon, Religions of Rome. Volume 1: 'A History'(Cambridge, 1998)
Galinsky, Karl (ed), The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Augustus (Cambridge, 2005)
Bowman, A.K.; Champlin, Edward; Lintott, Andrew (eds), Cambridge Ancient History, Volume 10: The Augustan Empire, 43 BC-AD 69' (Cambridge, 1996)
Syme, Ronald, The Roman Revolution, (Oxford, 1939)
Price, S. R. F., Rituals and Power: The Roman Imperial Cult in Asia Minor (Cambridge, 1984)
