The following is a suggested reading list of works in the English language for the general reader. The list is intended to provide the student or reader with readily available material for further reading or study. For suggested readings in specific topics beyond general histories and surveys, readers are encouraged to consult individual entries
(e. g., ART AND ARCHITECTURE, LITERATURE, PAGANISM, and
Legions). The list is divided into general histories and references, the early Roman Empire, the late Roman Empire, and the Germanic invasions.
General Histories and References Adkins, Lesley, and Roy Adkins. Handbook to Life in Ancient Rome. New York: Facts On File, 1994.
Boardman, J., Griffin, J., and Murray, O. The Roman World.
Oxford, U. K.: Oxford University Press, 1986.
Brauer, George C. The Age of the Soldier Emperors: Imperial Rome, A. D. 244-284. Park Ridge, N. J.: Noyes Press, 1985.
The Cambridge Ancient History. Vols. 9, 10, 11, 12. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1929-1939.
The Cambridge Medieval History. Vol. 1. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1936-1949.
Christ, Karl. The Romans. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1984.
Clare, John D., ed. Classical Rome. San Diego, Calif.: Gulliver Books, 1993.
Cornell, Tim, and John Matthews. Atlas of the Roman World.
New York: Facts On File Publications, 1982.
Grant, Michael. The Founders of the Western World: A History of Greece and Rome. New York: Scribner, 1991.
-. History of Rome. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson,
C. 1978.
The Roman Emperors: A Bbiographical Guide to the
Rulers of Imperial Rome, 31 bc-ad 476. New York: Scribner, 1985.
Hammond, Nicholas G. L., ed. Atlas of the Greek and Roman World in Antiquity. Park Ridge, N. J.: Noyes Press, 1981.
James, Simon. Ancient Rome. New York: Knopf, 1990.
Lewis, Naphtali, and Meyer Reinhold, eds. Roman Civilization, Selected Readings, Vol. 2, The Empire. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990.
Nicol, D. M. A Biographical Dictionary of the Byzantine Empire. London: Seaby, 1991.
Oxford Classical Dictionary. Edited by N. G. L. Hammond and H. H. Scullard. Oxford, U. K.: Oxford University Press, 1970.
Randsborg, Klavs. The First Millennium A. D. in Europe and the Mediterranean. Cambridge, U. K.: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Ridley, Ronald T. History of Rome: A Documented Analysis. Rome: l’Erma di Bretschneider, 1987.
Schutz, Herbert. The Romans in Central Europe. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1985.
Starr, Chester G. The Beginnings of Imperial Rome: Rome in the Mid-Republic. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1980.
Starr, Chester G. The Roman Empire, 27 B. C.-A. D. 476: A Study in Survival. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.
Wacher, J. S. The Roman Empire. London; Dent, 1987.
Wells, Colin M. The Roman Empire. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1984.
The Early Roman Empire
B aker, G. P Augustus. New York: Cooper Square Pres s, 2 0 0 0 .
Barrett, Anthony. Caligula: The Corruption of Power London: Batsford, 1989.
Beard, Mary. Rome in the Late Republic. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1985.
Bradford, Ernle. Julius Caesar: The Pursuit of Power. London: H. Hamilton, 1984.
Braund, David. Augustus to Nero: A Sourcebook on Roman History 31 BC-AD 68. London: Croom Helm, c. 1985.
Charles-Picard, Gilbert. Augustus and Nero. Translated by Len Ortzen. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1968.
Dodge, Theodore. Caesar: A History of the Art of War Among the Romans Down to the End of the Roman Empire, With a Detailed Account of the Campaigns of Gaius Julius Caesar.
New York: Da Capo Press, 1997.
The Early Principate: Augustus to Trajan. Oxford, U. K.: Clarendon Press, 1982.
Ferrill, Arthur. Caligula: Emperor of Rome. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1991.
Garnsey, Peter. The Early Principate: Augustus to Trajan. Oxford: Published for the Classical Association, at the Clarendon Press, 1982.
Gelzer, Matthias, Needham, Peter, trans. Caesar: Politician and Statesman. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1985.
Griffin, Miriam T. Nero: the End of a Dynasty. New Haven, Conn. Yale University Press, 1985.
Gurval, Robert. Actium and Augustus: The Politics and Emotions of Civil War. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998.
Holland, Richard. Nero: The Man Behind the Myth. Stroud: Sutton, 2000.
Hurley, Donna W. An Historical and Historiographical Commentary on Suetonius’ Life of C. Caligula. Atlanta, Ga.: Scholars Press, 1993.
Levick, Barbara. Claudius. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1990.
Meier, Christian. Caesar. New York: HarperCollins, 1997.
Millar, Fergus, and Erich Segal, eds. Caesar Augustus: Seven Aspects. New York: Clarendon Press, 1984.
The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus. Translated by Alan Shapiro. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1988.
Raaflaub, Kurt A., and Mark Toher, eds. Between Republic and Empire: Interpretations of Augustus and His Principate.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.
Shotter, David. Nero. London: Routledge, 1997.
Southern, Pat. Augustus. New York: Routledge, 1998.
Velleius Paterculus. The Caesarian and Augustan Narrative. Edited by A. J. Woodman. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
The Later Roman Empire
Ammianus Marcellinus. The Later Roman Empire (A. D. 354-378). Translated by Walter Hamilton. New York: Penguin, 1986.
Athanassiadi-Fowden, Polymnia. Julian and Hellenism: An Intellectual Biography. Oxford, U. K.: Clarendon Press, 1981.
Baldwin, Barry. Studies on Late Roman and Byzantine History, Literature, and Language. Amsterdam: J. C. Gieben, 1984.
Barnes, Timothy D. Constantine and Eusebius. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1981.
Carson, R. A. G., P V Hill, and J. P C. Kent. Late Roman Bronze Coinage. New York: Sanford J. Durst, 1989.
Croke, Brian. Religious Conflict in Fourth-Century Rome: a Documentary Study. Sydney: Sydney University Press, 1982.
Drake, Harold A. In Praise of Constantine: A Historical Study and New Translation of Eusebius’ Tricennial Oration. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976.
Ferrill, Arther. The Fall of the Roman Empire. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1996.
Goffart, Walter A. Rome’s Fall and After London: Hambledon Press, 1989.
Gossman, Lionel. The Empire Unpossess’d: an Essay on Gibbon’s Decline and Fall. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981.
Johnson, Stephen. Late Roman Fortifications. London: B. T. Batsford, 1983.
Raster, Robert A. Guardians of Language: the Grammarian and Society in Late Antiquity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.
Macdowall, Simon, and Gerry Embleton. Late Roman Infantryman 236-565 AD. London: Osprey Publishing Ltd., 1994.
Nicolle, David and Angus McBride. Romano-Byzantine Armies 4th-9th Centuries. London: Osprey 1992.
O’Flynn, John M. Generalissimos of the Western Roman Empire. Edmonton, Alta., Canada: University of Alberta Press, 1983.
Pelikan, Jaroslav J. The Excellent Empire: The Fall of Rome and the Triumph of the Church. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1987.
Rollins, Alden M. The Fall of Rome: A Reference Guide. Jefferson, N. C.: McFarland, 1983.
Williams, Stephen. Diocletian and the Roman Recovery. London: B. T. Batsford, 1985.
Zosimus. New History. Translated by Ronald T. Ridley Canberra; Australian Association for Byzantine Studies, 1982.
The Germanic Invasions
Cunliffe, Barry. Greeks, Romans and Barbarians: Spheres of Interaction. London; Batsford, 1988.
Goffart, Walter A. Barbarians and Romans, A. D. 418-584: The Techniques of Accommodation. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1980.
Grant, Michael. Dawn of the Middle Ages. New York: Bonanza Books, 1981.
Macdowall, Simon and Angus McBride Germanic Warrior 236-568 AD. London: Osprey, 1996.
Randers-Pehrson, Justine D. Barbarians and Romans: The Birth Struggle of Europe, A. D. 400-700. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1983.
Thompson, E. A. Romans and Barbarians: the Decline of the Western Empire. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1982.
Wolfram, Herwig. The Roman Empire and Its Germanic Peoples. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.
World History
