Ancient Rome: Political History to AD 68 (to the end of the Julio-Claudian dynasty),
In Our Time episodes, BBC Radio 4.
Ancient Rome,
In Our Time archive, BBC Radio 4.
List of In Our Time programmes, Wikipedia.
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Melvyn Bragg, Mary Beard, Catherine Edwards, Greg Woolf, "
Rome and European Civilization,"
In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 20 December 2001.
- Mary Beard (b. 1955), Wikipedia.
- Professor Mary Beard, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge.
- Mary Beard. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome. New York: Liveright / W. W. Norton & Company, 2015.
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- Catherine Edwards (b. 1963), Wikipedia.
- Catherine Edwards, Department of History, Classics & Archaeology, Birkbeck College, University of London.
- Greg Woolf (b. 1961), Wikipedia.
- Greg Woolf, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles.
- Greg Woolf, editor. The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Roman World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
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- Greg Woolf. Rome: An Empire's Story, Second Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.
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- Greg Woolf. Becoming Roman: The Origins of Provincial Civilization in Gaul. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
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- Greg Woolf. The Life and Death of Ancient Cities: A Natural History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.
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- Founding of Rome.
- Ancient Rome, 753 BC – AD 476.
- Legacy of the Roman Empire.
- History of Western civilization before AD 500.
- History of Western civilization.
- Western culture.
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Melvyn Bragg, Mary Beard, Peter Wiseman, Tim Cornell, "
Romulus and Remus,"
In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 24 January 2013.
- Mary Beard (b. 1955), Wikipedia.
- Professor Mary Beard, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge.
- Mary Beard. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome. New York: Liveright / W. W. Norton & Company, 2015.
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- T. P. Wiseman (b. 1940), Wikipedia.
- T. P. Wiseman. Remus: A Roman Myth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
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- T. P. Wiseman. The Myths of Rome. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2008.
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- Tim Cornell (b. 1946), Wikipedia.
- T. J. Cornell. The Beginnings of Rome: Italy and Rome from the Bronze Age to the Punic Wars (c. 1000 – 264 BC). Abingdon: Routledge, 1995.
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- Founding of Rome.
- Romulus and Remus.
- The Rape of the Sabine Women.
- Roman Kingdom, 753 BC – 509 BC.
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Melvyn Bragg, Greg Woolf, Catherine Steel, Tom Holland, "
The Roman Republic,"
In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 30 December 2004.
- Greg Woolf (b. 1961), Wikipedia.
- Greg Woolf, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles.
- Greg Woolf, editor. The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Roman World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
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- Catherine Steel (b. 1973), Wikipedia.
- Catherine Steel. The End of the Roman Republic, 146-44 B.C.: Conquest and Crisis. The Edinburgh History of Ancient Rome. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013.
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- Tom Holland (b. 1968), Wikipedia.
- Tom Holland. Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic. 2003. New York: Anchor, 2005.
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- Polybius. The Histories. Translated by Robin Waterfield. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
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- Roman Republic, 509 BC – 27 BC.
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Melvyn Bragg, Mary Beard, Jo Quinn, Ellen O’Gorman, "
Carthage's Destruction,"
In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 12 February 2009.
- Mary Beard (b. 1955), Wikipedia.
- Professor Mary Beard, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge.
- Mary Beard. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome. New York: Liveright / W. W. Norton & Company, 2015.
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- Josephine Crawley Quinn, Wikipedia.
- Professor Josephine Crawley Quinn, Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford.
- Josephine Quinn. In Search of the Phoenicians. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018.
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- Dr Ellen C O'Gorman, Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Bristol.
- Polybius. The Histories. Translated by Robin Waterfield. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
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- Ancient Carthage, c. 814 BC – 146 BC.
- Dido, legendary founder and first queen of the Phoenician city-state of Carthage.
- Roman Republic, 509 BC – 27 BC.
- Punic Wars, 264 BC – 146 BC.
- Hannibal (247 – between 183 and 181 BC).
- Cato the Elder (234 – 149 BC).
- Siege of Carthage (Third Punic War), c. 149 – spring 146 BC.
- Scipio Aemilianus (185 – 129 BC).
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Melvyn Bragg, Ellen O'Gorman, Mark Woolmer, Louis Rawlings, "
Hannibal,"
In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 11 October 2012.
- Dr Ellen C O'Gorman, Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Bristol.
- Mark Woolmer, LinkedIn.
- Mark Woolmer. A Short History of the Phoenicians, Revised Edition. London: Bloomsbury, 2021.
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- Dr Louis Rawlings, Senior Lecturer in Ancient History, School of History, Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University.
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- Ancient Carthage, c. 814 – 146 BC.
- Punic Wars, 264 – 146 BC.
- First Punic War, 264 – 241 BC.
- Hamilcar Barca (c. 275 – 228 BC), father of Hannibal.
- Second Punic War, 218 to 201 BC.
- Hannibal (247 – between 183 and 181 BC).
- Battle of Cannae, 2 August 216 BC.
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Melvyn Bragg, Christopher Pelling, Catherine Steel, Maria Wyke, "
Julius Caesar,"
In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 02 October 2014.
- Christopher Pelling (b. 1947), Wikipedia.
- Christopher Pelling. Plutarch and History: Eighteen Studies. London: Classical Press of Wales, 2002.
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- Christopher Pelling and Maria Wyke. Twelve Voices from Greece and Rome: Ancient Ideas for Modern Times. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
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- Catherine Steel (b. 1973), Wikipedia.
- Catherine Steel. The End of the Roman Republic, 146-44 B.C.: Conquest and Crisis. The Edinburgh History of Ancient Rome. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013.
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- Maria Wyke (b. 1957), Wikipedia.
- Maria Wyke, Professor of Latin, University College London.
- Maria Wyke. Caesar: A Life in Western Culture. London: Granta Books, 2007.
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- Maria Wyke, editor. Julius Caesar in Western Culture. Malden, Massachusetts and Oxford: Blackwell Publishing / Wiley-Blackwell, 2006.
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- Maria Wyke. Caesar in the USA. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 2012.
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- Greg Woolf. Et Tu, Brute?: A Short History of Political Murder. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2007.
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- Roman Republic, 509 BC – 27 BC.
- Roman Republic: Triumvirates and end of the Republic.
- Julius Caesar (100 BC – 44 BC).
- Caesar's civil war, 49 – 45 BC.
- Assassination of Julius Caesar, March 44 BC.
- Julius Caesar. The Gallic War. Translated by Carolyn Hammond. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
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- Julius Caesar. The Civil War. Translated by John Carter. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
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- William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, 1599.
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Melvyn Bragg, Catharine Edwards, Maria Wyke, Susan Walker, "
Cleopatra,"
In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 2 December 2010.
- Catherine Edwards (b. 1963), Wikipedia.
- Catherine Edwards, Department of History, Classics & Archaeology, Birkbeck College, University of London.
- Catharine Edwards. The Politics of Immorality in Ancient Rome. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
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- Catharine Edwards. Death in Ancient Rome. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007.
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- Maria Wyke (b. 1957), Wikipedia.
- Maria Wyke, Professor of Latin, University College London.
- Susan Walker, Wikipedia.
- Susan Walker and Sally-Ann Ashton. Cleopatra. London: Bristol Classical Press / Bloomsbury, 2006.
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- Duane W. Roller. Cleopatra: A Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
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- Hellenistic period, 323 BC – 31 BC.
- Ptolemaic Kingdom, 305 BC – 30 BC.
- Roman Egypt, 30 BC – AD 641.
- Roman Republic, 509 BC – 27 BC.
- Roman Republic: Triumvirates and end of the Republic.
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- Cleopatra (69 BC – 30 BC), Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt from 51 to 30 BC.
- Julius Caesar (100 BC – 44 BC).
- Mark Antony (83 BC – 30 BC).
- War of Actium, 32 – 30 BC.
- Battle of Actium, 31 BC.
- Death of Cleopatra, August 30 BC.
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- William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, 1599.
- William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 1607.
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Melvyn Bragg, Catharine Edwards, Duncan Kennedy, Mary Beard, "
The Augustan Age,"
In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 11 June 2009.
- Catherine Edwards (b. 1963), Wikipedia.
- Catherine Edwards, Department of History, Classics & Archaeology, Birkbeck College, University of London.
- Professor Duncan F Kennedy, Emeritus Professor, Department of Classics & Ancient History, University of Bristol.
- Mary Beard (b. 1955), Wikipedia.
- Professor Mary Beard, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge.
- Mary Beard. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome. New York: Liveright / W. W. Norton & Company, 2015.
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- Roman Republic, 509 BC – 27 BC.
- Roman Republic: Triumvirates and end of the Republic.
- Roman Empire, 27 BC – AD 476.
- Principate, 27 BC – AD 284.
- Octavius / Augustus (63 BC – AD 14), Emperor of Rome 27 BC to AD 14.
- Julio-Claudian dynasty, 27 BC to AD 68.
- Claudia (b. 57/56 BC), first wife of Octavian, daughter of the wealthy and politically powerful Fulvia.
- Scribonia (c. 70 BC – c. AD 16), second wife of Octavian/Augustus 40 BC to 39 BC, mother of Augustus' only biological child Julia the Elder.
- Livia (59 BC – AD 29), third wife of Augustus 38 BC to AD 14, mother (with her prior husband Tiberius Claudius Nero) of Tiberius (42 BC – AD 37) who would succeed Augustus as Emperor AD 14 to 37.
- Julia the Elder (39 BC – AD 14), daughter of Augustus and Scribonia, wife of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, mother of five children with Agrippa including Julia the Younger and Agrippina the Elder.
- Julia the Younger (19 BC – AD 29), daughter of Julia the Elder and Agrippa.
- Agrippina the Elder (14 BC – AD 33), daughter of Julia the Elder and Agrippa, wife of Germanicus, mother of six children with Germanicus including Caligula and Agrippina the Younger.
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- Augustan literature (ancient Rome).
- Virgil (70 – 19 BC), Aeneid.
- Horace (65 – 8 BC).
- Livy (64 BC – AD 12).
- Ovid (43 BC – AD 18).
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Melvyn Bragg, Catharine Edwards, Ellen O’Gorman, Maria Wyke, "
Tacitus and the Decadence of Rome,"
In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 10 July 2008.
- Catherine Edwards (b. 1963), Wikipedia.
- Catherine Edwards, Department of History, Classics & Archaeology, Birkbeck College, University of London.
- Suetonius. Lives of the Caesars. Translated by Catharine Edwards. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
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- Dr Ellen C O'Gorman, Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Bristol.
- Maria Wyke (b. 1957), Wikipedia.
- Maria Wyke, Professor of Latin, University College London.
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- Tacitus (c. AD 56 – c. 120).
- Tacitus, Annals, covers years AD 14–68.
- Tacitus, Histories, covers years c. 69–96.
- Tacitus, Agricola.
(Tacitus' father-in-law Gnaeus Julius Agricola was Governor of Britain AD 77/78 to 83/84.)
- Tacitus, Germania.
- Tacitus. The Annals. Translated by J. C. Yardley. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
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- Tacitus. The Histories. Translated by W. H. Fyfe. Revised and edited by D. S. Levene. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.
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- Tacitus. Agricola and Germany. Translated by Anthony R. Birley. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
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- Roman Empire, 27 BC – AD 476.
- Principate, 27 BC – AD 284.
- Julio-Claudian dynasty, 27 BC to AD 68.
- Year of the Four Emperors, AD 69.
- Flavian dynasty, AD 69 to 96.
- Nerva–Antonine dynasty, AD 96 to 192.
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Melvyn Bragg, Catharine Edwards, Alice König, Matthew Nicholls, "
Agrippina the Younger,"
In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 31 March 2016.
- See episode notes for references.
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- Catherine Edwards (b. 1963), Wikipedia.
- Catherine Edwards, Department of History, Classics & Archaeology, Birkbeck College, University of London.
- Suetonius. Lives of the Caesars. Translated by Catharine Edwards. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
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- Alice König, Wikipedia.
- Dr Alice König, School of Classics, University of St Andrews.
- Matthew Nicholls (b. 1978), Wikipedia.
- Matthew Nicholls, Visiting Professor, Department of Classics, University of Reading.
- Dr Matthew Nicholls, Senior Tutor, St John’s College, University of Oxford.
- Tacitus. The Annals: The Reigns of Tiberius, Claudius, and Nero. Translated by J. C. Yardley. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
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- Roman Empire, 27 BC – AD 476.
- Principate, 27 BC – AD 284.
- Octavius / Augustus (63 BC – AD 14), Emperor of Rome 27 BC to AD 14.
- Julio-Claudian dynasty, 27 BC to AD 68.
- Agrippina the Younger (AD 15 – 59), daughter of Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder, great-grand-daughter of Augustus, sister of Caligula, fourth wife of Claudius, mother of Nero.
- Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (c. 2 BC – AD 41), first husband of Agrippina the Younger, father of Nero.
- Gaius Sallustius Passienus Crispus, second husband of Agrippina the Younger.
- Tiberius (42 BC – AD 37), Emperor of Rome AD 14 to 37.
- Germanicus (15 BC – AD 19), Roman general, grandson of Livia, father of Agrippina the Younger.
- Caligula (AD 12 – 41), Emperor of Rome AD 37 to 41.
- Claudius (10 BC – AD 54), Emperor of Rome AD 41 to 54, third husband of Agrippina the Younger 49 to 54.
- Messalina (AD 17/20 – 48), third wife of Claudius 41 to 48.
- Britannicus (AD 41 – 55), son of Messalina and Claudius.
- Nero (AD 37 – 68), Emperor of Rome AD 54 to 68.
- Year of the Four Emperors, AD 69.
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Melvyn Bragg, Maria Wyke, Matthew Nicholls, Shushma Malik, "
Nero,"
In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 25 April 2019.
- See episode notes for references.
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- Maria Wyke (b. 1957), Wikipedia.
- Maria Wyke, Professor of Latin, University College London.
- Matthew Nicholls (b. 1978), Wikipedia.
- Matthew Nicholls, Visiting Professor, Department of Classics, University of Reading.
- Dr Matthew Nicholls, Senior Tutor, St John’s College, University of Oxford.
- Shushma Malik, University of Roehampton, London.
- Suetonius. Lives of the Caesars. Translated by Catharine Edwards. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
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- Tacitus. The Annals: The Reigns of Tiberius, Claudius, and Nero. Translated by J. C. Yardley. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
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- Roman Empire, 27 BC – AD 476.
- Principate, 27 BC – AD 284.
- Julio-Claudian dynasty, 27 BC to AD 68.
- Claudius (10 BC – AD 54), Emperor of Rome AD 41 to 54.
- Messalina (c. AD 17/20 – 48), third wife of Claudius 41 to 48.
- Agrippina the Younger (AD 15 – 59), daughter of Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder, great-grand-daughter of Augustus, sister of Caligula, fourth wife of Claudius, mother of Nero.
- Seneca the Younger (c. 4 BC – AD 65).
- Nero (AD 37 – 68), Emperor of Rome AD 54 to 68.
- Nero: Later years.
- Year of the Four Emperors, AD 69.
- Flavian dynasty, AD 69 to 96.
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