Required Secondary Texts:
Books:
H. H. Scullard, From the Gracchi to Nero: A History of Rome from 133 BC to AD 68, [Kindle $14.55 or used for under $15. There are several editions, but not really much difference.]
Frank Marsh, Principate: The Founding of the Roman Empire [Kindle $0.99]
Lily Ross Taylor, Party Politics in the Age of Cæsar, (Sather Classical Lectures) (University of California Press, 1961) [Used on Amazon, around $2.00]
Anthony Everitt, Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome’s Greatest Politician, (Random House, 2003) [Available on Amazon used for around $2.00, or in a Kindle version for $5.99]
Articles
Mary Beard, “Cicero's 'Response of the haruspices' and the Voice of the Gods,” The Journal of Roman Studies, Vol. 102 (2012), pp. 20-39
Brita Bettina von Hahn, “The Characterisation of Mark Antony,” (Thesis: University of South Africa, 2008)
[http://uir.unisa.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10500/2656/dissertation_hahn._%20b.pdf]
Henry C. Boren, “The Urban Side of the Gracchan Economic Crisis,” The American Historical Review, Vol. 63, No. 4 (Jul., 1958), pp. 890-902
Erich S. Gruen, “P. Clodius: Instrument or Independent Agent?” Phoenix, Vol. 20, No. 2 (Summer, 1966), 120-130.
J. S. Richardson, “The Ownership of Roman Land: Tiberius Gracchus and the Italians,” The Journal of Roman Studies, Vol. 70 (1980), pp. 1-11
D. W. T. C. Vessey, “Thoughts on Tacitus' Portrayal of Claudius,” The American Journal of Philology Vol. 92, No. 3 (Jul., 1971), 385-409
A. N. Sherwin-White, “Violence in Roman Politics,” The Journal of Roman Studies, Vol. 46, Parts 1 and 2 (1956), pp. 1-9
G. R. Stanton, “Why Did Caesar Cross the Rubicon?” Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte, Bd. 52, H. 1 (2003), pp. 67-94.
Primary Sources:
The XII Tables
http://www.csun.edu/~hcfll004/12tables.html
Appian, The Civil Wars, Horace White, Trans.
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0232%3Abook%3D1%3Achapter%3D1)
Augustus Caesar, Res Gestae Divi Augusti, Trans. W. S. Davis
(https://droitromain.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/Anglica/resgest_engl1.htm)
Cassius Dio, Roman History Trans. Earnest Cary
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/
C. Julius Caesar, Commentaries on the Civil War
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0076%3Abook%3D1%3Achapter%3D1
Marcus Tullius Cicero, The Catilinarian Orations, Trans. C. D. Younge
https://lexundria.com/cic_cat/1/y
Cicero, On Pompey’s Command,
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/To_the_citizens_on_Gnaeus_Pompeius%27s_command
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Letters to Atticus [ad Att.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Letters to Family [ad Fam.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Philippics
https://lexundria.com/cic_phil/0/
Flavius Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/josephus/index.html
Velleius Paterculus, The Roman History
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Velleius_Paterculus/home.html
Philo of Alexandria, On the Embassy of Gaius
http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/yonge/book40.html
Plutarch, Plutarch’s Lives, Trans, Dryden
Available at On line Library of Liberty:
http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles?q=Plutarch
Sallust, The War With Catiline and The War With Jugurtha
There are a number of other on-line sources, but this one is the most readable. The site manager warns that the site “may be glitchy,” If you encounter “glitches,” you can also access these works via
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Sallust/home.html
Seneca, Apocolocyntosis
C. Suetonius Tranquillus, Lives of the Twelve Caesars, the trans. by Alexander Thompson is available at Online Library of Liberty:
Suetonius is also available in an on-line version translated by J. C. Rolfe at:
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/12Caesars/home.html
Tacitus, Annals
http://classics.mit.edu/Tacitus/annals.html
or
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Tacitus/home.html
Books for History 698: Rome From the Gracchi To Nero
The following books are required reading for this course. I have not ordered any of them from the bookstore. They are almost all available online in Kindle format. I have gone to some lengths to keep the costs of the course low, and have found good texts in digital format at low cost. Other texts will include journal articles and other materials available from this site. Much of the reading material is from classical sources, and is available on line from several sites. I have chosen the sites that are the easiest to read on line, but there are other sites that offer the same texts. Information on that material is also available below.