Some links on Augustus and the Roman Revolution
(Jim O'Hara)
Augustus:
nice 10-15 page summary by John
Porter of the University of
Saskatchewan of events
of the years 44-31 (url updated for 2007)
Garrett Fagan has an Introductory
essay on Augustus, with bibliography and guide to ancient sources.
From De imperatoribus
romanis: An Online Encyclopedia
of Roman Emperors. The same source also has an essay on
Augustus
by Nina C.
Coppolino
David Potter (I think) at
Michigan offers an encyclopedia-style
article about Augustus along
with Augustus'
Res Gestae: Annotated translation of Augustus' record of his
accomplishments but the links
for notes do not seem to work now
Lacus
Curtius has a large collection of images and texts, including Augustus'
Res Gestae in Latin,
Greek and English in parallel columns, along with notes and bibliography
Augustan
Studies page of Eric Kondratieff with timeline
Excellent collection of links
on Augustus by Michael Arnush of Skidmore
Another good collection of links
on Augustus, including lots to images, on VRoma
David L.
Silverman's essay
on Augustus provides an introduction to the
primary sources as well as some recent historians' views
Augustus
links on the "Mantovano" home page devoted to Vergil at virgil.org
include "primary sources" and "background & images" (see my next
two items) and the brief treatments by John Porter and Garrett Fagan to
which I link above.
Primary
sources on the "Mantovano" home page devoted to Vergil: a great
annotated
page with primary sources in English and sometimes Latin, such as Augustus's
Res Gestae ("The emperor's
own account of his works and deeds"),
Plutarch's
Life of Marc Antony, a pic and testimonia on Augustus' Mausoleum, the
Latin text of a
letter from Augustus to his son Gaius, a biography of Augustus by
Nicolaus
of Damascus, Suetonius' Life of Augustus, Tacitus' comments on Augustus
and the end of the Republic, English translations of Augustan
legislation
on marriage, procreation, and adultery.
The
Background
& Images page for Augustus on
the "Mantovano" home page has links to Clifton Fox's genealogical guide
to the Julio-Claudians; Mark
Morford's
page of photos and site plans, with commentary, of the Augustan
mausoleum
complex, the Ara Pacis, the Prima Porta statue of Augustus, and the
Gemma
Augustea; Justin Paola's Visual Compendium of Roman Emperors (portrait
coins
and sculpture); Chris Renauld's pics of Portrait busts of Augustus and
Agrippa; labeled details from the Ara Pacis Augustæ, Kathyrn
Andrus-Walck's
pics of and info on the Prima Porta statue of Augustus, the Ara
Pacis
Augustae, and the Theater of Marcellus.
Augustus:
Testimonia, Univ. of Saskatchewan: a few passages on
Augustus
from Seneca, Suetonius, Tacitus (url updated for 2007)
Text
of Dio Cassius in English on Lacus Curtius. For Augustus, see
Books 45 and later.
Text of Appian's
Civil Wars in English (scroll down, past The Foreign Wars)
List of main events
in Augustus' live at livius.org
(an site for "articles on ancient history"); their page on Actium
Julius
Caesar on the "Mantovano" home page: Primary
sources,
background and images, modern essays and historical fiction on
Octavian's
adoptive father.
The
Julius Caesar Site of the Perseus Digital Library
John Paul Adams has a nice Augustus
page with info and essays: a timeline of dates in the life
of
Augustus, a page on the personal, religious, magisterial, and
political
responsibilities of the princeps, brief descriptions of "Building
Projects in Rome in Augustus' Time," "Some Augustan
Legislation,"
"Augustus' Illnesses," "Conspiracies against Augustus"
Rome:
Republic
to Empire Pages of Barbara F. McManus of The College of New
Rochelle;
links to her pages on Roman
Slavery and the Rebellion of Spartacus, Julius
Caesar, Antony,
Octavian, and Cleopatra: (the end of the Roman Republic); Augustus
and Tiberius (the beginnings of the Roman Empire), Caligula, Roman
Names, Roman
Republican Government, Roman
Social Classes and Political Factions of the Late Republic
For the "Eulogy of Turia" (a woman who lived through the
proscriptions)
see a Latin text here
and English here
and here
A website on The House of
Ptolemy
has information and links on Cleopatra and her relatives. They
also
have a page on "Caesar,
Cleopatra, and Marcus Antonius and the Transition to a Greco-Roman
(Roman
Imperial) Egypt"
The Forum
Romanum has a lot of good links, including
a 1901 Outline
of Roman History, and an excellent list of Online
Texts in Latin and English
Text of Cornelius Nepos' "Life of Atticus" in English
and Latin.
Cicero's friend, who lived until 32 BCE, and the namesake of some bookstores.
IMAGES:
VROMA
images of Caesar,
Caesar,
Caesar,
Caesar,
Caesar
on a coin, the Rubicon,
Cleopatra?,
Pompey.
Info about these images here
and here
is
VROMA's policy for image use.
For links to a few COINS
see here.
VROMA's Augustus
of Prima Porta, several views
of a bust of Augustus (scroll down to 43ff), McManus' images (see here
for info) including Agrippa,
Antony
and Octavia on a coin, Octavian
on a coin, Octavian
and the deified Caesar on a coin, Augustus
with toga and scroll, cameo
of Augustus and then another
pic of it; another cameo;
Augustus
with the "civic crown; Augustus
as pontifex, Augustus
sacrificing, busts of Augustus
and family members; Antony
and Cleopatra on a coin (more pics still here
including Livia, Caesar, Vergil etc.; see also here).
Mark Morford of Virginia has an annotated page
called Augustus:
Images of Power (e.g. mausoleum, Ara Pacis, Augustus of Prima
Porta)
Painting of The
Battle of Actium, 2 September 31 BC, by Lorenzo A. Castro, painted
1672; also here
See also at VROMA Ross
Scaife's images, including busts (altered later) of Sulla
and Marius
Doing a search for images at Perseus.tufts.edu
with the keyword "Augustus"
will get you links to photographs of a number of coins and
sculptures and buildings related to Augustus. Here
is their policy for image use.
The
Yastrzemski of Prima Porta
Maps: map of Europe
in antiquity from "DIR/ORB Antique and Medieval Atlas" (click on area
for
larger closeup); provinces
of the Roman Empire; City
of Rome; maps of Italy
(to accompany Wheelock's Latin)
from UNC's Ancient World Mapping
Center. Another AWMC map shows the Expansion of the Empire
in the Age of Augustus, and another the Settlement of Veterans
in Italy by Julius Caesar and
Augustus
FICTION:
- The
Fictional
Rome Home
Page developed by Louis M. Seigal, Leslie Phillips & Fred
Mench,
and housed at supported by the Richard Stockton College of New
Jersey.
Searchable Database; Authors & Reviews; Essays; Glossary of Latin
words
used in novels; Information on Historical Figures; Reference Works on
Historical
Fiction; Timeline; Discussion; Web Rings; Links.
- Another page: The
Detective and the Toga: Novels in English by Richard M.
Heli.
Extensive list, with frequent updates; see the general page at http://www.best.com/~heli/roman/
which describes the page as a "Bibliography of mystery novels and short
stories set in Ancient Rome"
- John Williams, Augustus (which we read in this course): Amazon
blurb
- Texts of Shakespeare's Julius
Caesar and Antony
and Cleopatra are available online
- Alan
Massie,
Augustus (1987) Amazon.com
blurb
- Stephen
Saylor
has written a mystery novel, "Catilina's
Riddle", which is fairly sympathetic to Catiline, offering a
different
look at the 63 BCE events covered by Sallust. Here's a little bio
info on Saylor, and here's the "Roman
Fiction" page. Here's the Amazon.com
info , with blurb, on "Catilina's Riddle." Saylor's 1999
novel Rubicon
is set in 49 BCE at the start of the war between Caesar and Pompey, and
his Last Seen in Massilia, is set later in 49 (Amazon
blurb). Beware: one of the Saylor home pages spells Catiline
wrong!
- Hermann Broch's 1945 "The
Death of Virgil"; see the "Roman
Fiction" page for this bold novel, which was begun while the author
was imprisoned in a German concentration camp, and which presents
stream
of consciousness remembrances from Vergil's last 18 hours of life
- I,
Claudius, and Claudius
the God, the novels by Robert Graves, the first made into a great Masterpiece
Theater series on PBS, available in VHS
and DVD
(see review
of
DVD). Lots of info here
; here's the "Roman
Fiction" page for Graves.
- Novels about Ovid I: Christoph Ransmayr, The Last World: A Novel
with
an
Ovidian Repertory (1990); see the "Roman
Fiction" page , which calls it a "metaphysical thriller" in which
"a
young admirer goes in search of the exiled poet ... in the remote Black
Sea town of Toni ... [and] finds in the rust-corroded town an ominous
scene
suffused with and dominated by Ovidian mythology, a transformed place
where
the ancient world meets the 20th century.
- Novels about Ovid II: David Malouf, An
Imaginary Life; "Roman
fiction" page Also Ovid in exile.
Novels about Ovid III: The
Love-Artist, by Jane Alison (Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2001).
Again
Ovid in exile, this time inspired by a woamn named Xenia to write his
"Medea". - Thornton Wilder, The
Ides of March
- Xena,
Antony, and Cleopatra episode-guide with link to script of "Xena"
episode;
slightly different version of events (Xena, disguised at Cleo., woos
then
kills MA). Other episodes that seem to (I haven't seen them) have
Caesar or other Romans: Rome,
Ides
- HBO's series Rome is
about Caesar, Pompey, the young Octavius, et al.
WRITING HELP:
The Writing Center is in the Phillips Annex, 962-7710; see their
website.
There are links to lots of good writing tools at a Rutgers
page.
Plagiarism
and the Honor Code
2007 note: links below here have not
been checked recently, and were never very extensive
SALLUST LINKS:
Francis Ford Coppola's plans for a version of the
Catiline
set
in New York: see here
or here
(for the latter, look or search for the word egalopolis about 5/6 of
the
way down)
General
Intro: Sallust's life, writing, and style, and Sallust as a
Historian,
Reprinted in its entirety from "Introduction", Sallust's Catiline, ed.
Jared W. Scudder, Allyn & Bacon: Boston, 1900.
IV. Sallust's Style
Home page of a Graduate
Course on Sallust at Penn. with Links to info on Cicero's Speeches
against Catiline
latin
text at rutgers
more
latin texts:
texts in latin (at
patriot)
http://www.etext.org/Libellus/texts/sallust/
A 1997 senior
thesis on Sallust at St. John's
encyclopedia
stuff
Histos
(online journal): Robin Seager Review of A. Drummond:
Law, Politics
and Power.
Sallust and the Execution of the Catilinarian Conspirators
BMCR
review of Drummond by James P. Holoka
review
of novel John Maddox Roberts The Catiline conspiracy New York : Avon,
1991
(saylor page with catilina typo:
http://www.twbooks.co.uk/authors/ssaylor1.html))
As noted above under "fiction", Stephen
Saylor has written a mystery novel, "Catilina's
Riddle", which is fairly sympathetic to Catiline, offering a
different
look at the 63 BCE events covered by Sallust. See more on Saylor
above.
HORACE
LINKS:
(need more links specifically on Epodes, Satires)
Selected
Odes in English, on Diotima
Horace's
Villa
Info, pictures and even a Quicktime tour of Horace's Villa near
Licenza,
Italy; there are also some pages with English and Latin texts of poems
related to the Villa
Texts of
Horace
in
Latin (patriot)
Texts
of Horace in English and Latin at Perseus.com
A
Bibliography
of Horace from Rutgers
Online texts of Horace
and Roman
Elegy
Annotated Latin texts and English translations are often
available
at
the great "Perseus" website at:
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/perscoll?collection=Greco-Roman
For Perseus texts you may have to notice the menu near the top
of the page for switching back and forth between Latin and English
Horace:
Odes, English: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/text?lookup=hor.+carm.+init.
Odes, Latin: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/text?lookup=hor.+carm.+init.&vers=latin
Ovid, Metamorphoses: (for
Ovid see
also
links below)
English: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/text?lookup=ov.+met.+init.
Latin: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/text?lookup=ov.+met.+init.&vers=latin
Ovid, Amores, etc.:
Latin: http://www.gmu.edu/departments/fld/CLASSICS/ovid.amor.html
Latin & English of "Art of Love," "Remedy of Love", "Art of
Beauty",
"Amours" or "Amores":
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0069&layout=&loc=intro%201&query=toc
Sulpicia:
English, with brief notes: http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/sulpicia-anth.html
Latin: http://cgi1.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/6946/literature/sulpicia.html
Tibullus:
Latin: http://patriot.net/~lillard/cp/tib.html
Latin: http://harvest.ablah.twsu.edu/tibullus/
Propertius:
Latin and English: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Prop.+1.1.1
Latin: http://www.curculio.org/Propertius/index.html
Latin: http://patriot.net/~lillard/cp/prop.html
For UNC students only: go to http://apollo.classics.unc.edu/search.asp
and do a "general search" for "Propertius." You'll get several
poems
n English translations in nice pdf files (you need adobe acrobat)
VERGIL LINKS:
(need more links specifically on Eclogues....)
Introduction
to Latin Epic (Oxford):
Life Histories of Roman Epic Poets
Vergil's
Home Page Links, info, etc., from Joe Farrell of Penn.
The
Vergil Project from Joe Farrell of Penn., including news on
Summer
98 NEH institute
Syllabus
for Latin 228 and 409, "Vergil's Aeneid" partly-online course
on V. taught by Penn.'s Joe Farrell in 1995
Vergilius
Bibliography Index "Vergilius" is a journal that includes a
bibliography
of new work on V. each year
Mantovano
An Online, Ongoing Discussion of Virgil and His Influence (you can
subscribe)
Virgil
in Late Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and Renaissance: An Online
Bibliography
from the people who bring you "Mantovano" (also lists basic Vergil
paperback
books)
Mark
Morford's
Online
Images
of Fall or Troy, Dido, Underworld From a scholar at the University
of Virginia
Perseus
Project Text of Vergil in English & Latin w/ Notes Great
resource! Latin text of Vergil, translations by both Dryden and a
modern
scholar, line-by-line commentary of both Servius (Latin, late
antiquity)
and Conington (19th Cent.), and info. on each Latin form in Vergil
A
Bibliographic Guide to Vergil's Aeneid Ongoing project of Prof.
Shirley
Werner of Rutgers U.
Vergil's
Aeneid (Brooklyn College course notes)
LIVY LINKS:
Intro to Livy from Reed
College
Livy
Bibliography of Tim Moore of Texas
Latin
texts
(patriot)
Latin
text, Books 1-2
Search the Latin text
Perseus
Project text of Livy in English and Latin with Helps
Livy
Books 1-5 in English at Virginia
Livy
and Etruscan Women, by Iain McDougall, The Ancient History Bulletin 4.2
(1990) 24-30
James
T. Chlup, Review of Mary Jaeger, Livy's Written Rome
encyclopedia
article
OVID LINKS
(old; for
more Ovid links, some also old, see http://www.unc.edu/~oharaj/Ovidlinks.html
)
(See also above for links to texts in Latin and
English)
An outline
of the structure of the Metamorphoses
Resources
for the Study of Ovid's Metamorphoses Book 8.614-724: Judith de
Luce's
page (in progress) on Baucis and Philemon
Ovid:
Metamorphoses (great set of links on a page at Reed College)
Scansion
of Latin Poetry: Hexameter
Introduction to Latin Epic (Oxford): Ovid's
Metamorphoses
U
of T Classics: Synopsis of Ovid's Metamorphoses
Analytical
Onomasticon Project (A clickable "who's who" of The
Metamorphoses,
produced by King's College London and Princeton University)
Ovid
Project (at U. Vermont. Plates from two illustrated editions of The
Metamorphoses, one dated 1640 and the other 1713)
Illustrations
for Ovid at the Davison Art Center! (for Wesleyan access only, I
think)
Sean
Redmond -- Recent Ovidian Bibliography (easy-to-use and up-to-date
bib. on recent work)
Ulrich
Schmitzer's (German) Ovid home page (lots of great stuff, even if
you
don't know German)
Perseus
Project Text of Ovid in English & Latin w/ Notes
Professor
Michael Roberts' project on Apollo-Daphne (limited access--only partial
url given here)
Timeline
of (some) historical and literary events of Ovid's lifetime
http://www.huygens.org/~hanssen/ovidius.html
= Some information on Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid)
http://ancienthistory.miningco.com/msub17.htm
includes some links on Latin grammar etc. and lower on the page some
Ovid
links that might be worth checking out
http://www.lib.msu.edu/ioannide/oe/oe.htm
o e = Orpheus and Eurydice, which we may read later
http://www.utexas.edu/depts/classics/gradstud/mayer/Tiresias.html
= Tiresias + Echo & Narcissus, which we'll read I think
http://daex.ufsc.br/~ssaguiar/ovid.htm
links to texts; from Spain vel sim.
http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/Palms/3988/morph.html
text of Kafka's story, Metamorphosis, just for fun
A slightly modified
version of the synopsis found in Henry T. Riley's prose translation
of the Metamorphoses (1851)
Diotima
bibliography for Ovid
Oxford
dissertation in progress on Ovid's Heroides
Ovid
im (German for "in/on") WWW the extensive Ovid page and links of
scholar
Ulrich Schmitzer (lotsa links here)
