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INTRODUCTION
JULIUS CAESAR
1
Cicero,
Letters to Atticus
, 7.11.1.
2
Plutarch,
The Life of Julius Caesar
, 63.1, in Plutarch, Lives, trans. Bernadotte Perin, Loeb Classical Library, 1914, repr. 1998.
3
See Goldsworthy, Adrian,
Caesar
, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006, p 60.
4
Plutarch, op. cit., 58.4.
5
Shakespeare, William,
Julius Caesar
, III.ii.
6
Cicero, Philippics II.161, quoted Grant, Michael,
The Twelve Caesars
, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1996, p 33.
7
See Garland, Robert,
Julius Caesar
, Bristol: Bristol Phoenix Press, 2004.
8
See Wallace-Hadrill, Andrew,
Suetonius: The Scholar and his Caesars
, London: Duckworth, 1983, p 12.
9
Velleius Paterculus,
The Roman History
II.41.1, trans. Frederick W. Shipley, Loeb Classical Library, 1924.
10
Plutarch,
The Life of Cato
, 8.8.
11
Plutarch,
The Life of Julius Caesar
, 60.1.
12
See Bradford, Ernle,
Julius Caesar: The Pursuit of Power
: London: Hamish Hamilton, 1984, p 7.
13
Plutarch,
The Life of Julius Caesar
, 2.4.
14
Pliny the Elder,
Natural History
, VII.91, quoted in Grant, op. cit., pp 31–2.
15
Tacitus,
Histories
III.38.
16
Cassius Dio,
Roman History
37.54.3, trans. Earnest Cary, Loeb Classical Library, 1925.
17
See Massie, Allan,
The Caesars
, London: Martin Secker & Warburg, 1983, p 20.
18
Ibid.
19
Plutarch,
The Life of Julius Caesar
, 15.5.
20
See Caesar,
Gallic Wars
IV.14–15.
21
See Goldsworthy, op. cit., pp 294–5.
22
Plutarch,
The Life of Julius Caesar
, 23.6.
23
Ibid, 28.6.
24
Goldsworthy, op. cit., p 375.
25
See ibid, p 468.
26
Plutarch,
Life of Julius Caesar
, 57.1.
27
Tacitus,
Histories
, 2.91.
AUGUSTUS
1
Cassius Dio, op. cit, 56.46.1.
2
Velleius Paterculus, op. cit 2.60.2.
3
Ibid, 2.59.6.
4
Ibid, 2.66.
5
Plutarch,
Life of Antony
, 60.
6
Augustus,
Res Gestae Divi Augusti
, quoted Massie, op. cit., p 59.
7
Cassius Dio, op. cit, 53.4.
8
Augustus, op. cit, 34.
9
Propertius,
Elegies
3.18, trans A. S. Kline.
10
See Dennison, Matthew,
Empress of Rome: The Life of Livia
, London: Quercus, 2010, p 283.
11
Cassius Dio, op. cit., 54.18.
12
Massie, op. cit., p 73.
13
Horace,
The Centennial Hymn
, trans. James Mitchie, London: Penguin, 1978, p 257.
14
Augustus, op. cit, 8.5.
15
Velleius Paterculus, op. cit., 2.100.2–3.
16
Ibid, 2.123.2.
17
Cassius Dio, op. cit., 56.30.
18
Velleius Paterculus, op. cit., 2.123.2.
TIBERIUS
1
Cassius Dio, op. cit., 57.1.2.
2
Velleius Paterculus, op. cit., 2.124.2.
3
Cassius Dio, op. cit., 57.13.8.
4
See Sutherland, C. H. V.,
Coinage in Roman Imperial Policy 31BC–AD68
, London: Methuen, 1951, pp 84–5.
5
Velleius Paterculus, op. cit., 2.99.
6
Cassius Dio, op. cit., 57.13.
7
Pliny the Elder, op. cit., 28.5.23.
8
Tacitus,
Annals
, 6.50, trans. Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb, 1876.
9
Cassius Dio, op. cit., 57.1.2.
10
Ibid, 57.13.5.
11
Ibid, 54.29.2.
12
Velleius Paterculus, op. cit., 2.96.1.
13
Tacitus,
Annals
, 1.53.
14
Seneca,
On Benefits
, 6.1–2; see Bauman, Richard A.,
Women and Politics in Ancient
Rome, London: Routledge, 1992, p 113.
15
Tacitus,
Annals
, 4.1.
16
See Levick, Barbara,
Tiberius the Politician
, London: Thames & Hudson, 1976, p 49.
17
Tacitus,
Annals
, 6.51.
18
Ibid, 1.6.
19
Ibid, 1.7.
20
See Levick, op. cit., p 72.
21
See Barrett, Anthony A.,
Livia, First Lady of Imperial Rome
, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002, p 81.
22
Quoted Grant, op. cit., p 97.
23
Tacitus,
Annals
, 4.1.
24
Matyszak, Philip,
The Sons of Caesar: Imperial Rome’s First Dynasty
, London: Thames & Hudson, 2006, p 144.
25
Tacitus,
Annals
, 4.7.
26
See Shotter, David,
Tiberius Caesar
, London: Routledge, 1992, p 47.
27
Ibid, p 59.
28
Tacitus,
Annals
, 5.3
29
Ibid, 6.51.5.
30
Cassius Dio, op. cit., 58.4.
31
Shotter, op. cit., pp 63–4.
32
See Sutherland, op. cit., p 103.
GAIUS CALIGULA
1
Augustus,
Res Gestae
, 34.1.
2
Garnsey, Peter & Saller, Richard,
The Early Principate: Augustus to Trajan
, Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1982,
Greece & Rome New Surveys in the Classics
No. 15, pp 4–5.
3
Josephus,
Antiquities of the Jews
, 18.6.10, trans. William Whiston, 1895.
4
Cassius Dio, op. cit., 59.6.1.
5
Ibid, 59.13.6.
6
Ibid, 67.8.3.
7
Ibid, 59.11.1.
8
Josephus, op. cit., 19.2.
9
Cassius Dio, op. cit., 59.4.
10
Matyszak, op. cit., p 185.
11
Cassius Dio, op. cit., 59.2.
12
Ferrill, Arther,
Caligula: Emperor of Rome
, London: Thames & Hudson, 1991, p 101.
13
Cassius Dio, op. cit., 59.13.6.
14
Pliny the Elder, op. cit., 13.22; 37.17; 33.79.
15
Josephus, op. cit., 19.2.2.
16
Seneca,
On Benefits
, IV.31.
17
Tacitus,
Annals
, 3.1, trans. Church and Brodribb.
18
Ferrill, op. cit., p 48.
19
Sutherland, op. cit., p 108.
20
Philo,
Legatio ad Gaium
, II. 14, trans. E. M. Smallwood, quoted Grant, op. cit., p 124.
21
Cassius Dio, op. cit., 59.16.5–6.
22
Ibid, 59.16.7.
23
Philo, op. cit., quoted Matyszak, op. cit., p 189.
24
Cicero,
Phillipics
4.13, quoted Dennison, op. cit., p 265.
25
Josephus, op. cit., 19.2.