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Emperors
www.pbs.org/empires/romans/
empire/emperors.html
Discusses the emperors of the 1st century AD, followed by brief biographies of each.
Early Emperors
www.roman-empire.net/emperors
/emp-index.html
An excellent site with a timeline of the major political events spanning
the first 100 years after the Senate handed complete control of the state
to the first emperor, Augustus.
Roman Law
www.jura.uni-sb.de/Rechtsgeschichte/
Ius.Romanum/english.html
Website dedicated to Roman law, from the University of Saarbrücken,
including a good section of ‘Questions and answers on Roman law’.
Most of the site is in English, but you can also read it in Latin, German
and Italian.
Roman Political Resources
www.dalton.org/groups/Rome/RPol.html
An excellent gateway site to web resources on law, social classes
and politics of the empire.
The Roman Way to Building a Career
www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/
romans/careers_01.shtml
Britain was frequently used as a base for Roman usurpers: why
and when did they arrive, and how successful were they?
Rome: The calamitous century AD 180-284
www.wsu.edu/~dee/ROME/3RDCENT.HTM
The century when politics fell into disarray with the rule of Marcus
Aurelius's unbalanced son Commodus and the self-appointed dictator Severus
plus 50 years of military leaders who virtually destroyed the economy.
Books
Roman Political Life 90 BC-AD 69 edited by T P Wiseman (University
of Exeter Press, 1985) £8.99
Three essays on the nature of Roman politics in the late Republic and
the Julio-Claudian period.
The Last Generation of the Roman Republic by Erich S Gruen (University
of California, 1995) £7.99
This study of the late Republic examines institutions as well as personalities,
and social tensions between the plebeian, the military and the aristocracy.
It cites many examples of senators who did not bow to Caesar, leading
to the fall of the Republic and the inevitable rise of Augustus.
On Obligations by Cicero, translated by P G Walsh (Oxford Paperbacks,
2001) £8.99
Written by Cicero after the murder of Julius Caesar to provide principles
of behaviour for aspiring politicians.
The Roman Revolution by Ronald Syme (Oxford Paperbacks, 1960)
£11.99
The fall of the Republic, the decline of freedom in Rome between 60 BC
and AD 14 and the rise to power of Augustus.
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