Res Gestae DrviAugusti, The Achievements of the Divine Augustus, (ed) P. A. Brunt and J. M. Moore (Oxford, 1967) which has original text, translation and commentary
The primary sources on all aspects of Augustan age have been usefully collated in: K. Chisolm and J. Ferguson (eds), Rome: The Augustan Age, A Source Book (Oxford, 1981)
III NERO
An excellent and authoritative account of the crisis of Nero's reign is:
Griffin, Miriam Т., Nero, The End of a Dynasty (London, 1984)
Two short introductions to Nero's rale can be found in:
Shotter, David, Nero (London, 2005)
Malta, Jiirgen, Nero (Oxford, 2005)
Other key works are:
Grant, Michael, Nero (London, 1970)
Champlin, Edward, Nero (Cambridge, Mass.; London, 2003)
Beacham, Richard C, The Roman Theatre and its Audience (London, 1991)
Beacham, Richard C, Spectacle Entertainments of Early Imperial Rome (New Haven; London, 1999)
ANCIENT SOURCES
For Tacitus's works for this period see the following translations:
Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome (London, 1989)
Tacitus, The Histories (London, 1972)
For Suetonius's life of Nero see:
Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars (Oxford, 2000)
Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars (Oxford, 2000) (Julius Caesar)
Other ancient narratives of the last decades of the republic are:
Appian, The Civil Wars (London, 1996)
Lucan, Civil War (Oxford, 1999) (poetic account)
AUGUSTUS
Wallace-Hadrill, Andrew, Augustan Rome (Bristol, 1993)
Zanker, Paul, The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus (Ann Arbor, 1988)
Beard, Mary; North, John; Price, Simon, Religions of Rome. Volume 1: 'A History'(Cambridge, 1998)
Galinsky, Karl (ed). The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Augustus (Cambridge, 2005)
Bowman, A.K.; Champlin, Edward; Lintott, Andrew (eds), Cambridge Ancient History, Volume 10: The Augustan Empire, 43 BC-AD 69' (Cambridge, 1996)
Syme, Ronald, The Roman Revolution, (Oxford, 1939)
Price, S. R E, Rituals and Power. The Roman Imperial Cult in Asia Minor (Cambridge, 1984)
Jones, Peter and Sidwell, Keith (eds), The World of Rome: An Introduction to Roman Culture, (Cambridge, 1997)
Barchiesi, Alessandro, The Poet and the Prince: Ovid and Augustan Discourse (Berkeley, 1997)
ANCIENT SOURCES
The key ancient texts for the life and rule of Augustus are:
Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars (Oxford, 2000)
Cassius Dio, The Roman History: The Reign of Augustus (London, 1987)
For Augustus's own account of his reign (My Achievements) see:
Res Gestae Envi Augusti, The Achievements of the Divine Augustus, (ed) P. A. Brunt and J.'M. Moore (Oxford, 1967) which has original text, translation and commentary
The primary sources on all aspects of Augustan age have been usefully collated in: K. Chisolmand J. Ferguson (eds), Rome: The Augustan Age, A Source Book (Oxford, 1981)
III NERO
An excellent and authoritative account of the crisis of Nero's reign is:
Griffin, Miriam Т., Nero, The End of a Dynasty (London, 1984)
Two short introductions to Nero's rule can be found in:
Shorter, David, Nero (London, 2005)
Malitzjurgen, Nero (Oxford, 2005)
Other key works are:
Grant, Michael, Nero (London, 1970)
Champlin, Edward, Nero (Cambridge, Mass.; London, 2003)
Beacham, Richard C, The Roman Theatre and its Audience (London, 1991)
Beacham, Richard C, Spectacle Entertainments of Early Imperial Rome (New Haven; London, 1999)
ANCIENT SOURCES
For Tacitus's works for this period see the following translations:
Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome (London, 1989)
Tacitus, The Histories (London, 1972)
For Suetonius's life of Nero see: Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars (Oxford, 2000)
Lane Fox, Robin, The Classical World: An Epic History from Homer to Hadrian (London, 2005)
Scarre, Christopher, The Penguin Historical Adas of Ancient Rome (London, 1995)
Jones, Peter and Sidwell, Keith (eds), The World of Rome: An Introduction to Roman Culture, (Cambridge, 1997)
The Vindolanda tablets are also available online at:
http ://vindolanda.csad.ox.ac.uk
ANCIENT SOURCES
For Pliny's letters see:
The Letters of the Younger Pliny (London, 1963)
For Pliny's Panegyric of Trajan, see Loeb Classical Library edition:
Pliny, Letters and Panegyricus (Cambridge, Mass., 1969)
For Cassius Dio's account of the reign of Hadrian see Loeb Classical Library edition:
Cassius Dio, Roman History, Volume 8 (Cambridge Mass., 1925)
For the Imperial History, Life of Hadrian, see:
Lives of the Later Caesars (London, 1976)
For Tacitus's account of Roman Britain, see: Tacitus, The Agricola and The Germania (London, 2003)
V CONSTANTINE
A good, authoritative introduction to this period of Roman history can be found in:
Cameron, Averil, The Later Roman Empire, AD 284-430 (London, 1993)
Other key works are:
Brown, Peter, The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph and Diversity AD 200-1000 (Oxford, 2002.)
Brown, Peter, Power and Persuasion in Late Antiquity: Towards a Christian Empire (Madison, Wis.; London, 1992)
Odahl, Charles, Constantine and the Christian Empire (London, 2004)
Barnes, Timothy, Constantine and Eusehius (Cambridge, Mass.; London, 1981)
Drake, H. A., Constantine and the Bishops: The Politics of Intolerance (Baltimore, Md.; London, 2000)
Digeser, Elizabeth DePalma, The Making of a Christian Empire: Lactantius and Rome (Ithaca, N.Y.; London, 1999)
Southern, Pat, The Roman Empire from Severus to Constantine (London, 2001)
Beard, Mary; North, John; Price, Simon, Religions of Rome. Volume 1: A History (Cambridge, 1998)
Lenski, Noel (ed), The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine (Cambridge, 2006)
Cambridge Ancient History, Volume 12, "The Crisis of Empire, AD 193-337', (ed) Alan Bowman, Averil Cameron, Peter Garnsey (Cambridge, 2005)
ANCIENT SOURCES
For Eusebius's works see:
Eusebius, Life of Constantine, (ed) Averil Cameron and Stuart G. Hall (Oxford, 1999) which has introduction, translation and commentary.
Eusebius, The History of the Chunk from Christ to Constantine (London, 1989)
For Lactantius's works see:
On the Deaths of the Persecutors, Lactantius, De Mortibus Persecutorum (On the Deaths of the Persecutors), (ed) J. L. Creed (Oxford, 1984) which has parallel Latin and English text.