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.]

http://perseus.uchicago.edu/perseus-cgi/citequery3.pl?dbname=PerseusLatinTexts&query=Cic.%20Att.&getid=1

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Letters to Family [ad Fam.]

http://perseus.uchicago.edu/perseus-cgi/citequery3.pl?dbname=PerseusLatinTexts&getid=1&query=Cic.%20Fam.

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

https://lexundria.com

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

http://perseus.uchicago.edu/perseus-cgi/citequery3.pl?dbname=LatinAugust2012&query=Sen.%20Apocol.&getid=1

C. Suetonius Tranquillus, Lives of the Twelve Caesars, the trans. by Alexander Thompson is available at Online Library of Liberty:

http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/tranquillus-the-lives-of-the-twelve-caesars?q=suetonius#Suetonius_1235_2

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.