4: Bibliography

Critical Editions

Fisher, C. D. (ed.) (1906), Cornelii Taciti Annalium Ab Excessu Divi Augusti Libri, Oxford.

Koestermann, E. (ed.) (1965), Cornelii Taciti Libri Qui Supersunt, Tom. I: Ab Excessu Divi Augusti, Leipzig.

Heubner, H. (ed.) (1994), P. Cornelii Taciti Libri Qui Supersunt, Tom. I: Ab Excessu Divi Augusti, Stuttgart [2nd, corrected edition; first edition 1983].

Wellesley, K. (ed.) (1986), Cornelii Taciti Libri Qui Supersunt, Tomus I, Pars Secunda: Ab Excessu Divi Augusti Libri XI–XVI, Leipzig.

Commentaries

Furneaux, H. (1907), Cornelii Taciti Annalium Ab Excessu Divi Augusti Libri/The Annals of Tacitus edited with introduction and notes, vol. II. Books XI–XVI, 2nd edn, revised by H. F. Pelham and C. D. Fisher, Oxford.

Koestermann, E. (1968), Cornelius Tacitus, Annalen, erläutert und mit einer Einleitung versehen, Band IV: Buch 14–16, Heidelberg.

Miller, N. P. (1973), Cornelii Taciti Annalium Liber XV, Basingstoke and London.

Translations

Jackson, J. (1937), Tacitus, Annals, Books XIII–XVI, Loeb Classical Library, London and Cambridge, Mass.

Woodman, A. J. (2004), Tacitus, The Annals, translated, with introduction and notes, Indianapolis and Cambridge.

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Allen, W. (1962), ‘Nero’s Eccentricities Before the Fire (Tac. Ann. xv, 37)’, Numen 9, 99–109. DOI: 10.2307/3269398

Ash, R. (2006), Tacitus, Bristol.

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Austin, R. G. (1964), P. Vergili Maronis, Aeneidos Liber Secundus, with a commentary, Oxford.

Ball, L. F. (1994), ‘A Reappraisal of Nero’s Domus Aurea’, JRA, Supplementary Series II, Rome Papers, 182–254.

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Barton, C. (1989), ‘The Scandal of the Arena’, Representations 27, 1–36. DOI: 10.2307/2928482

Bartsch, S. (1994), Actors in the Audience: Theatricality and Doublespeak from Nero to Hadrian, Cambridge, Mass. and London.

Beacham, R. C. (1999), Spectacle Entertainments of Early Imperial Rome, New Haven and London.

Bert Lott, J. (2012), Death and Dynasty in Early Imperial Rome: Key Sources, with Text, Translation, and Commentary, Cambridge and New York. DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139046565

Betensky, A. (1975), ‘Neronian Style, Tacitean Content: The Use of Ambiguous Confrontations in the Annals’, Latomus 37, 419–35.

Birley, A. R. (2000), ‘The Life and Death of Cornelius Tacitus’, Historia 49, 230–47.

Blösel, W. and Hölkeskamp, K.-J. (eds.) (2011), Von der militia equestris zur militia urbana. Prominenzrollen und Karrierefelder im antiken Rom, Stuttgart.

Bomgardner, D. L. (2000), The Story of the Roman Amphitheatre, London and New York.

Brunt, P. A. (1961), ‘Charges of Provincial Maladministration under the Early Principate’, Historia 10.2, 189–227.

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Burnand, C. (2012), Tacitus and the Principate: From Augustus to Domitian, Cambridge.

Campbell, J. 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 and New York, 213–40.

Champlin, E. (2003), Nero, Cambridge, Mass. and London.

Cooley, M. G. L. (ed.) (2003), The Age of Augustus (= LACTOR 17), London.

Deininger, J. (1965), Die Provinziallandtage der römischen Kaiserzeit von Augustus bis zum Ende des dritten Jahrhunderts n. Chr., Munich.

Develin, R. (1983), ‘Tacitus and Techniques of Insidious Suggestion’, Antichthon 17, 64–95.

Dominik, W. J., Garthwaite, J., Roche, P. A. (eds.) (2009), Writing Politics in Imperial Rome, Leiden etc.

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Edmundson, J. (2006), ‘Cities and Urban Life in the Western Provinces of the Roman Empire, 30BC–250AD’, in D. S. Potter (ed.), A Companion to the Roman Empire, Malden, Mass., 250–80. DOI: 10.1002/9780470996942.ch14

Edwards, C. (1993), The Politics of Immorality in Ancient Rome, Cambridge.

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Flaig, E. (1992), Den Kaiser herausfordern: Die Usurpation im römischen Reich, Frankfurt a. M.

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Frazer, R. M. (1966/67), ‘Nero the Artist-Criminal’, Classical Journal 62, 17–20.

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French, V. (1986), ‘Midwives and Maternity Care in the Roman World’, Helios, new series 13.2, 69–84.

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Goodyear, F. R. D. (2012), ‘Development of Language and Style in the Annals of Tacitus’, in R. Ash (ed.), Tacitus, Oxford Readings in Classical Studies, Oxford, 357–75 [first published in the Journal of Roman Studies 58, 1968, 22–31. DOI: 10.2307/299692].

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Gyles, M. F. (1946/47), ‘Nero Fiddled While Rome Burned’, Classical Journal 42, 211–17.

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Hardie, P. R. (2012), Rumour and Renown: Representations of Fama in Western Literature, Cambridge.

Heinze, R. (1915/1993), Virgil’s Epic Technique, trans. H. Harvey, D. Harvey, and F. Robertson, Bristol [originally published as Virgils epische Technik, 3rd edn, Leipzig 1915].

Hemsoll, D. (1990), ‘The Architecture of Nero’s Golden House’, in M. Henig (ed.), Architecture and Architectural Sculpture in the Roman Empire, Oxford, 10–38.

Henderson, J. (1998), ‘Tacitus: The World in Pieces’, in Fighting for Rome: Poets & Caesars, History & Civil War, Cambridge, 257–300.

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Hölkeskamp, K.-J. (2004), ‘Fides – deditio in fidem – dextra data et accepta’, in Senatus Populusque Romanus. Die politische Kultur der Republik – Dimensionen und Deutungen, Stuttgart, 105–35.

Humphrey, J. H. (1986), Roman Circuses: Arenas for Chariot Racing, London.

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Kaufmann, M. (c. 1915), Das Sexualleben des Kaisers Nero, Leipzig.

Klauck, H.-J. (2003), ‘Do They Never Come Back? Nero redivivus and the Apocalypse of John’, in Religion und Gesellschaft im frühen Christentum: Neutestamentliche Studien, Tübingen, 268-89.

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Kraus, C. S. (1994), ‘“No Second Troy”: Topoi and Refoundation in Livy, Book V’, Transactions of the American Philological Association 124, 267–89.

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