Guide to Further Reading

Epigraphy

The most useful introductions in English to the study of Roman Republican inscriptions in the context of Roman epigraphy as a whole are Gordon 1983 and Keppie 1991. Both have plentiful illustrations, introductions to the complex bibliography on Roman inscriptions, and helpful guidance on the resolution ofabbreviations and various technical matters. The best edition of Republican Latin texts is A. Degrassi, Inscriptiones Latinae Liberae Rei Publicae (ILLRP) (with illustrations in Degrassi, ILLRP, Imagines); the fullest collection is volume one of the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (second edition). Particularly useful are Cagnat 1914; Berard 2000 (with annual supplements available over the internet); Calabi Limentani 1991; and Meyer 1973. Important recent studies include Gasperini 1999andSolin 1999. L’AnneeEpigraphique details each year’s new work in Roman epigraphy. For Greek inscriptions relevant to Roman affairs in this period, see Roman Documents from the Greek East (RDGE) (Sherk 1969) and Sherk 1984. The forthcoming ‘‘Imagines Italicae,’’ supervised by Michael Crawford, should set the study of Italian inscriptions in languages other than Latin, Greek, and Etruscan on a new footing. In The Journal of Roman Studies approximately every five years a survey has been published of recent work in Roman epigraphy, the latest being Gordon 2003.

Numismatics

Crawford 1974 is the standard reference work on Roman Republican numismatics, with a full catalog and illustrations, and his books of 1969 and 1985 are essential complements to this, but perhaps the best introductions to the subject are the Republican sections ofBurnett 1987 and Howgego 1995. Note also Crawford 1983a. Rutter 2001 is a very useful account of the non-Roman coinages of Italy, and the various papers in Burnett and Crawford 1987 are essential starting-points for the question of the impact of Roman coinage on the rest of the Mediterranean world. Five-yearly surveys of work on Roman Republican numismatics are published in ‘‘A Survey of Numismatic Research,’’ the most recent being Alfaro Asins and Burnett 2003.