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The Twelve Caesars
SuetoniusLives of the first twelve emperors, from Julius Caesar to Domitian, full of gossip and detail.
Parallel Lives
PlutarchPaired biographies of Greek and Roman statesmen, including Caesar, Cicero and Antony.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Edward GibbonA long 18th-century history of the late empire that set the terms of later debate.
The Roman Revolution.
Ronald SymeA study of how Augustus gained power, reading the early empire as a matter of networks and influence.
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