what's on my reading table: Ancient Rome: Political History to AD 68, In Our Time episodes

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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Political History:

History of Rome.
Ancient Rome, 753 BC – AD 476.
Roman Kingdom, 753 BC – 509 BC.
Roman Republic, 509 BC – 27 BC.
Roman Empire, 27 BC – AD 476.
Principate, 27 BC – AD 284.
Dominate, AD 284 – 641.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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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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Tuesday, July 12, 2022

Ancient Rome: Political History to AD 68, In Our Time episodes