ABBREVIATIONS
Ancient authors and their works, and the titles of periodicals, are referred to by the standard abbreviations. Some additional abbreviations are also listed.
AE |
L’Année épigraphique |
AJA |
American Journal of Archaeology |
AJP |
American Journal of Philology |
Barr. |
Talbert, R. 2000. Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. |
CIL |
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum |
CQ |
Classical Quarterly |
HSCP |
Harvard Studies in Classical Philology |
HZ |
Historische Zeitschrift |
ICS |
Illinois Classical Studies |
ILS |
Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae |
JRS |
Journal of Roman Studies |
MH |
Museum Helveticum |
MRR |
Broughton, T.R.S. 1951–1952. The Magistrates of the Roman Republic. New York: American Philological Association. |
PBSR |
Papers of the British School at Rome |
RIB |
Roman Inscriptions in Britain |
RIC2 |
Sutherland, C.H.V., and R.A.G. Carson. 1984. The Roman Imperial Coinage, volume 1, revised edition. London: Spink and Son. |
SEG |
Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum |
Smallwood |
Smallwood, E.M. 1967 (reprinted 2010). Documents Illustrating the Principates of Gaius, Claudius and Nero. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. |
TAPA |
Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association |
Barrett, A.A. 1996. Agrippina: Sex, Power and Politics in the Early Empire. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Bradley, K.R. 1978. Suetonius’ Life of Nero: An Historical Commentary. Brussels: Latomus.
Buckley, E., and M.T. Dinter, eds. 2013. A Companion to the Neronian Age. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
Champlin, E. 2003. Nero. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Elsner, J., and J. Master, eds. 1994. Reflections of Nero: Culture, History and Representation. London: Duckworth.
Griffin, M.T. 1992. Seneca, a Philosopher in Politics. Second edition. Oxford: Clarendon.
Griffin, M.T. 2000. Nero, the End of a Dynasty. Second edition. London: Routledge.
Krüger, J. 2012. Nero. Cologne: Böhlau Verlag.
Shotter, D. 2005. Nero. Second edition. London: Routledge.
Syme, R. 1958. Tacitus. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
TRANSLATIONS
Damon, C. 2012. Tacitus: The Annals. London: Penguin.
Edwards, C. 2000. Suetonius: Lives of the Caesars. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Hurley, D. 2011. Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus: The Caesars. Indianapolis: Hackett.
Woodman, A. 2004. Tacitus: The Annals. Indianapolis: Hackett.
Yardley, J., and A. Barrett. 2008. Tacitus: The Annals, the Reigns of Tiberius, Claudius and Nero. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
CHAPTER I: THE MAKING OF THE EMPEROR
Blake, M.E. 1959. Roman Construction in Italy from Tiberius through the Flavians. Washington: Carnegie Institution of Washington.
Brunt, P. 1975. “Two Great Roman Landowners.” Latomus 34:619–35.
Carlsen, J. 2006. The Rise and Fall of a Roman Noble Family: The Domitii Ahenobarbi, 196 BC–AD 68. Copenhagen: University Press of Southern Denmark.
Coarelli, F. 1984. Lazio. Rome: Laterza.
Sansone, D. 1986. “Atticus, Suetonius and Nero’s Ancestors.” In C. Deroux, ed., Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History 4 (Collection Latomus 196). Brussels: Latomus, 269–77.
Sumner, G. 1981. “Review of K.R. Bradley, Suetonius’ Life of Nero.” Phoenix 35:378–81.
CHAPTER II: THE NEW EMPEROR
Braund, S.H. 2009. Seneca, De Clementia. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Hind, J.G.F. 1971. “The Middle Years of Nero’s Reign.” Historia 20:488–505.
Hind, J.G.F. 1975. “Is Nero’s Quinquennium an Enigma?” Historia 24:629–30.
Lepper, F.A. 1957. “Some Reflections on the Quinquennium Neronis.” JRS 47:95–103.
Levick, B.M. 1983. “Nero’s Quinquennium.” In C. Deroux, ed., Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History 3 (Collection Latomus 180). Brussels: Latomus, 211–25.
Müller, S. 2009. Das Hellenistische Königspaar in der medialen Represäntation-Prolemaios II und Arsinoë II. Berlin: De Gruyter.
Murray, O. 1965. “The Quinquennium Neronis and the Stoics.” Historia 14:41–61.
Syme, R. 1971. Emperors and Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Thornton, M.K. 1973. “The Enigma of Nero’s Quinquennium.” Historia 22:570–82.
Thornton, M.K. 1989. “Nero’s Quinquennium; the Ostian Connection.” Historia 38:117–19.
CHAPTER III: ENEMIES WITHIN
Baltussen, H. 2002. “Matricide Revisited: Dramatic and Rhetorical Allusion in Tacitus, Suetonius and Cassius Dio.” Antichthon 36:30–40.
Devillers, O. 1995. “Tacite, les sources et les impératifs de la narration: Le récit de la mort d’Agrippine (Annales XIV, 1–13).” Latomus 54:324–45.
Levick, B., and S. Jameson. 1964. “C. Creperius Gallus and His Gens.” JRS 54:98–106.
Luke, T. 2013. “From Crisis to Consensus: Salutary Ideology and the Murder of Agrippina.” ICS 38:207–28.
O’Gorman, E. 1997. “The Curse of Agrippina: Tacitus Annals 14.” Omnibus 33:8–10.
O’Gorman, E. 2000. Irony and Misreading in the Annals of Tacitus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Piecha, R. 2003. “Wenn Frauen baden gehen … Agrippinas Ende bei Tac. Ann. 14, 1–13.” In M. Schauer and G. Thome, eds., Altera Ratio: Klassische Philologie zwischen Subjektivität und Wissenschaft. Stuttgart: Steiner, 120–35.
Stahr, A.W.T. 1867. Agrippina: die Mutter Neros. Berlin: J. Guttentag.
Steele, C. 2007. Death in Ancient Rome. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Townend, G.B. 1960. “The Sources of the Greek in Suetonius.” Hermes 88:98–120.
Uden, J. 2003. “Drama and Suspense in Agrippina’s Last Days.” Classicum 29:2–7.
CHAPTER IV: PARTHIA
Ash, R. 2006. “Following in the Footsteps of Lucullus?: Tacitus’ Characterisation of Corbulo.” Arethusa 39:355–75.
Campbell, B. 1993. “War and Diplomacy: Rome and Parthia, 31 BC–AD 235.” In J. Rich and G. Shipley, eds., War and Society in the Roman World. London: Routledge, 213–40.
Gilmartin, K. 1973. “Corbulo’s Campaigns in the East: An Analysis of Tacitus’ Account.” Historia 22:583–626.
Grajetzki, W. 2011. Greeks and Parthians in Mesopotamia and Beyond, 331 BC–224 AD. London: Bristol Classical Press.
Kennedy, D.L. 1996. “Parthia and Rome: Eastern Perspectives.” In D.L. Kennedy, ed., The Roman Army in the East. Ann Arbor: Journal of Roman Archaeology, Supplement, 67–90.
Lerouge, C. 2007. L’image des Parthes dans le monde gréco-romain. Stuttgart: Steiner.
Shayegan, M.R. 2011. Arsacids and Sasanians. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Vervaet, F.J. 1999. “CIL IX 3426: A New Light on Corbulo’s Career, with Special Reference to His Official Mandate in the East from AD 55 to AD 63.” Latomus 58:574–99.
Vervaet, F.J. 2000. “Tacitus, Ann. 15.25.3: A Revision of Corbulo’s imperium maius (AD 63–AD 65?).” In C. Deroux, ed., Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History 10 (Collection Latomus 254). Brussels: Latomus, 260–98.
Wheeler, E. 1997. “The Chronology of Corbulo in Armenia.” Klio 79:383–97.
Wiesehöfer, J., ed. 1998. Das Partherreich und seine Zeugnisse. Stuttgart: Steiner.
CHAPTER V: BRITAIN AND GERMANY
Allason-Jones, L. 1989. Women in Roman Britain. London: British Museum Publications.
Allen, D.F. 1976. “An Icenian Legend.” Britannia 7:276–78.
Asbach, J. 1878. Analecta Historica et Epigraphica Latina. PhD dissertation, Bonn University, 8–16.
Benario, H.W. 1986. “Legionary Speed of March before the Battle with Boudica.” Britannia 17:359–62.
Bulst, C.M. 1961. “The Revolt of Queen Boudica in AD 60.” Historia 10:496–509.
Cappai, C. de F. 1992. “Suet. ‘Nero’ 18 e il progetto neroniano di evacuazione della Britannia.” Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica 41:137–45.
Carroll, K.K. 1979. “The Date of Boudica’s Revolt.” Britannia 10:197–202.
Courteault, P. 1921. “An Inscription Recently Found at Bordeaux.” JRS 11:101–7.
Dyson, S.L. 1971. “Native Revolts in the Roman Empire.” Historia 20:239–74.
Fishwick, D. 1961. “The Imperial Cult in Britain.” Phoenix 15:159–73.
Fulford, M.G. 2008. “Nero and Britain: The Palace of the Client King at Calleva and Imperial Policy towards the Province after Boudica.” Britannia 39:1–13.
Gambash, G. 2012. “To Rule a Ferocious Province: Roman Policy and the Aftermath of the Boudican Revolt.” Britannia 43:1–15.
Griffin, M.T. 1976. “Nero’s Recall of Suetonius Paulinus.” Scripta Classica Israelica 3:138–52.
Jackson, K. 1979. “Queen Boudica?” Britannia 10:255.
Jullian, C. 1899. “Note gallo-Romaines, Sainte Victoire, Victoria, Andarte.” Revue des Études Anciennes 1:46.
Webster, G. 1993. Boudica. London: Batsford.
Wedeck, H.E. 1955. “The Question of Seneca’s Wealth.” Latomus 14:540–44.
CHAPTER VI: THE GREAT FIRE
The Fire
Dando-Collins, S. 2010. The Great Fire of Rome. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press.
Holson, P. 1976. “Nero and the Fire of Rome: Fact and Fiction.” Pegasus 19:37–44.
Hülsen, Ch. 1909. “The Burning of Rome under Nero.” AJA 13:45–48.
Newbold, R.F. 1974. “Some Social and Economic Consequences of the AD 64 Fire at Rome.” Latomus 33:858–69.
Scheda, G. 1967. “Nero und der Brand Roms.” Historia 16:111–15.
Yavetz, Z. 1975. “Forte an dolo principis (Tac. Ann. 15.38).” In B. Levick, The Ancient Historian and His Materials: Essays in Honour of C.E. Stevens. Farnborough: Gregg, 181–97.
The Christians
Beaujeu, J. 1960. “L’incendie de Rome en 64 et les Chrétiens.” Latomus 19:65–80, 291–311.
Coleman, K.M. 1990. “Fatal Charades: Roman Executions Staged as Mythological Enactments.” JRS 80:44–73.
Cook, J.G. 2010. Roman Attitudes toward the Christians. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.
Frend, W.H.C. 1965. Martyrdom and Persecution in the Early Church. Oxford: Blackwell.
Fuchs, H. 1950. “Tacitus über den Christen.” Vigiliae Chistianae 4:65–93.
Heubner, H. 1959. “Zu Tac. Ann. 15,44,4.” Hermes 87:223–30.
Hochart, P. 1885. Études au sujet de la persecution des Chrétiens sous Néron. Paris: E. Leroux.
Jülischer, A. 1976. Itala: Das Neue Testament in altlateinische Überlierferung, vol. 3: Lukas-Evangelium. Second edition. Berlin: De Gruyter.
Koestermann, E. 1967. “Ein folgenschwerer Irrtum des Tacitus (Ann. 15.44, 2ff.)?” Historia 16:456–69.
Metzger, B.M. 1977. The Early Versions of the New Testament. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Michelfeit, J. 1966. “Das Christenkapitel des Tacitus.” Gymnasium 73:514–40.
Shaw, B. 2015. “The Myth of the Neronian Persecution.” JRS 105:73–100.
Toynbee, J., and J. Ward Perkins. 1956. The Shrine of St Peter and the Vatican Excavations. London: Longmans.
The Golden House
Ball, L. 2003. The Domus Aurea and the Roman Architectural Tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Hemsoll, D. 1990. “The Architecture of Nero’s Golden House.” In M. Henig, ed., Architecture and Architectural Sculpture in the Roman Empire. Oxford: Oxford University Committee for Archaeology.
Hoffmann, A., and U. Wulf. 2004. Die Kaiserpaläste auf dem Palatin in Rom. Mainz: von Zabern.
Knell, H. 2004. Bauprogramme römischer Kaiser. Mainz: von Zabern.
CHAPTER VII: THE EMPEROR’S WIVES
Barrett, A.A. 2016. “Women in the Court of Nero.” In S. Bartsch-Zimmer, C.K. Freudenburg, and C. Littlewood, eds., Cambridge Companion to the Age of Nero. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.
Gallivan, P.A. 1974. “Confusion Concerning the Age of Octavia.” Latomus 33:116–17.
Holztrattner, F. 1995. Neronis potens, Die Gestalt der Poppaea Sabina in den Nerobüchern des Tacitus: Mit einem Anhang zu Claudia Acte (Grazer Beiträge Supplementband 6). Horn: Berger.
Kragelund, P. 2010. “The Temple and Birthplace of Diva Poppaea.” CQ 60:559–68.
Mayer, F.A. 1982. “What Caused Poppaea’s Death?” Historia 31:248–49.
CHAPTER VIII: CONSPIRACIES
Brunt, P.A. 2009. “Stoicisim and the Principate.” PBSR 43:7–35.
Champlin, E. 1989. “The Life and Times of Calpurnius Piso.” MH 46:101–24.
Gärtner, H.A. 1996. “Senecas Tod in der Pisonischen Verschwörung.” In R. Faber and B. Seidensticker, eds., Worte, Bilder, Töne: Studien zur Antike und Antikerezeption. Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann, 143–57.
Green, S. 2010. “(No) Arms and a Man: The Imperial Pretender, the Opportunistic Poet and the Laus Pisonis.” CQ 60:497–523.
Ker, J. 2009. The Deaths of Seneca. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
O’Gorman, E. 2006. “Alternative Empires: Tacitus’ Virtual History of the Pisonian Principate.” Arethusa 39:281–302.
Pagán, V. 2004. Conspiracy Narratives in Roman History. Austin: University of Texas Press.
Rees, R. 2013. “The Lousy Reputation of Piso.” In A.G.G. Gibson, ed., The Julio-Claudian Succession. Leiden: Brill, 95–106.
Rudich, V. 1993. Political Dissidence under Nero: The Price of Dissimilation. London: Routledge.
Toynbee, J.M.C. 1944. “Dictators and Philosophers in the First Century A.D.” Greece and Rome 13:43–58.
Woodman, A.J. 1993. “Amateur Dramatics at the Court of Nero: Annals 15.48–74.” In T.J. Luce and A.J. Woodman, eds., Tacitus and the Tacitean Tradition. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 104–28.
CHAPTER IX: THE EMPEROR AS ARTIST AND SHOWMAN
Fantham, R.E. 2013. “The Performing Prince.” In E. Buckley and M.T. Dinter, eds., A Companion to the Neronian Age. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 17–28.
Hall, E., and R. Wyles. 2008. New Directions in Ancient Pantomime. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Kennell, N. 1988. “NERON PERIODONIKES.” AJP 109:139–51.
Lada-Richards, I. 2013. “Mutata Corpora: Ovid’s Changing Forms and the Metamorphic Bodies of Pantomime Dancing.” TAPA 143:105–52.
Mattingly, H. 1920. “Some Historical Roman Coins of the First Century A.D.” JRS 10:37–41.
Morford, M.P.O. 1985. “Nero’s Patronage and Participation in Literature and the Arts.” Aufstieg und Niedergang der Römischen Welt 2.36.6:2003–31.
Yawetz, Z. 1969. Plebs and Princeps. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
CHAPTER X: DEATH
Arand, T. 2002. Das schmähliche Ende: Der Tod des schlechten Kaisers und seine literarische Gestaltung in der römischen Historiographie. Berlin: Lang.
Meier, M. 2008. “Qualis artifex pereo–Neros letzte Reise.” HZ 286:561–603.
Morgan, M.G. 1993. “The Three Minor Pretenders in Tacitus’ Histories.” Latomus 52:769–96.
Reece, B.R. 1969. “The Date of Nero’s Death.” AJP 90:72–74.
Sansone, D. 1993. “Nero’s Final Hours.” ICS 18:179–89.
Tuplin, C. 1989. “The False Neros of the First Century.” In C. Deroux, ed., Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History 5 (Collection Latomus 206). Brussels: Latomus, 364–404.
Woods, D. 2009. “Curing Nero: A Cold Drink in Context.” Classics Ireland 16:40–48.