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.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• 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.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Tom Holland (b. 1968), Wikipedia.
• Tom Holland. Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic. 2003. New York: Anchor, 2005.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Wikipedia; Amazon.com.]
• Polybius. The Histories. Translated by Robin Waterfield. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Wikipedia; Amazon.com.]
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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.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Wikipedia; Amazon.com.]
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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.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• 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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Rosen, Justinian's Flea (2007)

William Rosen.
Justinian's Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe.
New York: Viking Penguin, 2007.
The paperback edition is titled: Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (2008).

Book information: Book Website; Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

Paul Freedman, "HIST 210: The Early Middle Ages, 284–1000" (YouTube playlist), Open Yale Courses, Fall 2011.

Some Book Reviews:

• Ian Pindar, "Round the world on a rat," The Guardian, 04 May 2007.
• Raymond J. Dattwyler, Book Review, The New England Journal of Medicine, volume 357, pages 1354-1355, September 27, 2007.
• Eamon Duffy, "‘The First Great Pandemic in History’," The New York Review of Books, 29 May 2008.
  This is not a review of Rosen's book but of another and more focused book published about a year before Rosen's: Plague and the End of Antiquity: The Pandemic of 541-750. Lester K. Little, editor. Cambridge University Press, 2006 [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com].

Some Wikipedia Articles:

• Justinian I (c.482-565; r.527-565).
• Decline of the Roman Empire.
• Fall of the Western Roman Empire.
• Byzantine Empire.
• Late Antiquity.
• Early Middle Ages.
• Plague of Justinian (542 and after).
• Medieval demography.

The book's title perhaps misleadingly suggests that the book is narrowly focusd on a plague episode during the reign of Justinian; instead, the book is a very quick survey of the Late Antiquity period, from the third to the seventh centuries, with the Plague of Justinian presented as one of several major turing points in the transition from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages.

[Prologue, 540] : Pelusium; History of Alexandria: Roman era; Plague of Justinian.

[Ch One, 286-470] : Crisis of the Third Century (235-284); Dominate (284-476); Diocletian (r. 284-305); Tetrarchy (293-313); Constantine (r. 306-337); Constantine the Great and Christianity; Constantinople; Byzantine Empire.

[Ch Two, 337-518] : Decline of the Roman Empire; Western Roman Empire (285-480); Fall of the Western Roman Empire; ---- Migration Period; Goths; Visigoths; Ostrogoths; ---- Cassiodorus (c.485–c.585); Jordanes (6th century) author of Getica, a history of the Gothic people; Ulfilas (c.310-383) Arian Christian bishop and missionary to the Goths; ---- Constantinian dynasty (r.293-363); Julian (r.361-363); Battle of Samarra (363); Ammianus Marcellinus (320s-390s) author of Res Gestae, available as The Later Roman Empire: A.D. 354-378, Walter Hamilton, translator, Penguin Classics, 1986 [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com]; Valens (r.364-378); Battle of Adrianople (378); Theodosius I (r.379-395), last single emperor of both western and eastern halves of the Roman Empire; ---- Honorius (r.395-423) western Roman Emperor; Stilicho (c.359–408) considered along with Aetius the last great western Roman generals; Alaric I (r.395–410) king of the Visigoths; Sack of Rome (410) by the Visigoths; Galla Placidia regent 421 or 423-437 for her son the western Emperor Valentinian III (r.425-455) who, like Honorius to Stilicho, kills his best general Aetius (c.396–454) who is credited with preventing further collapse of the western empire from the 430s to 454. Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, Ravenna, Italy; ---- Huns; Attila (d.453); Battle of the Catalaunian Plains (451) Hun incursion into Gaul halted and reversed; ---- Ricimer (c.405-472); Odoacer, King of Ostrogoths 476-493; Theodoric Strabo (d.481); Ostrogothic Kingdom (493-553), successor to the extinguished Western Roman Empire; Theoderic the Great (454-526) King of Ostrogothic Kingdom 493-526; ---- Theodosius II (r.408-450); Marcian (r.450-457); Leo I (r.457-474); Zeno (r.474-475 and 476-491); Anastasius (r.491-518); ---- State church of the Roman Empire.

[Ch Three, 518-530] : Boethius (c.480-524); ---- Byzantine Empire under the Justinian dynasty; Byzantine Empire; Justin I (r.518-527); Justinian I (r.527-565); Theodora (c.500-548); ---- Belisarius (c.500-565); Battle of Dara (530).

[Ch Four, 530-537] : Chariot racing: Byzantine era; Hippodrome of Constantinople; Horses of Saint Mark; Nika riots (532); Mundus (d.536); Hagia Sophia; Isidore of Miletus; Anthemius of Tralles.

[Ch Five, 533-537] : John the Cappadocian (6th century); Tribonian (c.485–547); Corpus Juris Civilis also called the Code of Justinian; Novellae Constitutiones also called Justinian's Novels; English translations of these works: Annotated Justinian Code by Fred H. Blume; Justinian's Novels by Fred H. Blume.

[Ch Six, 533-540] : Vandals led by Genseric (c.389-477) conquer the Roman province of Africa in the 420s and 430s; ---- Belisarius (c.500-565); Antonina (c.484–after 565); Vandalic War (533-534) in which the Romans conquer Africa; Amalasuntha (c.495–534/535); Gothic War (535–554) in which the Romans conquer the Ostrogothic Kingdom (and temporarily retake Italy); Mundus (d.536); Narses (478-573).

[Ch Seven] : Bacteria: Yersinia pestis; Flea: Xenopsylla cheopis also called the Oriental rat flea.

[Ch Eight] : Rat: Rattus rattus also called the Black rat; Disease: Bubonic plague; Pneumonic plague; Septicemic plague; Epidemiology: Epidemiology; Pandemic; Disease Dynamics: Mathematical modelling of infectious disease.

[Ch Nine, 540-542] : Plague of Justinian; Extreme weather events of 535–536, suggested as creating environmental conditions conducive to the spread of plague vectors; Procopius (c.500–c.565).

[Ch Ten, 523-545] : Sassanid Empire; Khosrau I (r.531–579); Ctesiphon.

[Ch Eleven, 545-664] : Franks; Merovingian dynasty (5th-8th centuries); Clovis (c.466–511); Gregory of Tours (c.538–594) author of History of the Franks, Lewis Thorpe, translator, Penguin Classics, 1974 [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com]. ---- End of Roman rule in Britain (383-410); Anglo-Saxon England (400-1066); Bede (672/673–735) aka the Venerable Bede; Bede documented episodes of plague in the British Isles during the Seventh Century in: Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (731) Ecclesiastical History of the English People: (1) Leo Sherley-Price, translator, D. H. Farmer, editor, Penguin Classics, 1990 [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com]; (2) Judith McClure and Roger Collins, translators, Oxford University Press, 2009 [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com].

[Ch Twelve, 548-558] : Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy.

[Ch Thirteen, 559-565] : Silk Road.

[Epilogue, 636] : Maurice (r.582-602); Phocas (r.602-610); Heraclius (r.610-641); ---- Muslim conquests; Arab conquest of Roman Syria: 634–638; Battle of Yarmouk (636); Khalid ibn al-Walid (592–642) aka the Sword of Allah.


Bibliographical Note (pages 347-349):

• Peter Brown. The World of Late Antiquity: AD 150-750. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1989 (First published: London: Thames and Hudson, Ltd., 1971). [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Warren Treadgold. A History of the Byzantine State and Society. Stanford University Press, 1997. [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• John Julius Norwich. Byzantium: The Early Centuries. New York: Knopf, 1989. [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Averil Cameron. The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity: AD 395-700, second edition. Abingdon, UK & New York: Routledge, 2012. [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Edward Gibbon. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. 1776-1789. [Wikipedia; The Online Library of Liberty.]
• J. B. Bury. History of the Later Roman Empire: From the Death of Theodosius I to the Death of Justinian, two volumes. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1958 (first published: London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1923). [Publisher, volume one; Publisher, volume two; Google Books, volume one; Google Books, volume two; Amazon.com, volume one; Amazon.com, volume two.]
• A. H. M. Jones. The Later Roman Empire, 284-602: A Social, Economic, and Administrative Survey. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986 (first published: 1964 in four volumes). [Google Books, volume one; Google Books, volume two; Amazon.com, two volume set.]
• The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Justinian. Michael Maas, editor. Cambridge University Press, 2005. [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Readings in Late Antiquity: A Sourcebook, second edition. Michael Maas, editor. Abingdon, UK & New York: Routledge, 2010. [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Byzantine Studies Program, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, D.C.
  Print and Digital Resources for Scholars, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, D.C.
  Byzantine Online Publications, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, D.C.
  Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, Harvard University Press.
• Robert Browning. Justinian and Theodora. 1971; 1987; 2003. [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Herwig Wolfram. History of the Goths. Thomas J. Dunlap, translator. University of California Press, 1990. [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• L. H. Fauber. Narses: Hammer of the Goths. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1990; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. [Google Books; AbeBooks.com; Amazon.com.]
• R. J. Mainstone. Hagia Sophia: Architecture, Structure, Liturgy of Justinian's Great Church. London: Thames & Hudson, 1988 (paperback 2002). [Google Books; AbeBooks.com; Amazon.com.]
• Tony Honore. Tribonian. Cornell University Press, 1978. [Google Books; AbeBooks.com; Amazon.com.]
• J. A. S. Evans. Procopius. Twayne Publishers or Irvington Publishers, 1972. [Google Books; AbeBooks.com; Amazon.com.]
• Richard N. Frye. The History of Ancient Iran. Munchen: Beck, 1984. [Google Books; AbeBooks.com; Amazon.com.]
• Wendy Orent. Plague. New York: Free Press (Simon and Schuster), 2004; 2012. [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• William H. McNeill. Plagues and Peoples. Garden City, NY: Anchor Press, 1976; New York: Random House, 1989; 1998. [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Byzantine Studies, edited by Paul Halsall.
• Internet Medieval Sourcebook, edited by Paul Halsall.
• Overview of Late Antiquity by Steven Muhlberger, Professor of History, Nipissing University, North Bay, Ontario.
• Online Textbook of Bacteriology by Kenneth Todar.
• John of Ephesus (c.507–c.586), Ecclesiastical History.
• Evagrius Scholasticus (6th century), Ecclesiastical History.
• Prokopios aka Procopius of Caesarea (c.500–c.565):
  • Anekdota or The Secret History:
    (1) The Secret History with related texts. Anthony Kaldellis, translator. Indianapolis, Indiana: Hackett Publishing Company Inc., 2010. [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
    (2) The Secret History. G. A. Williamson, translator; Peter Sarris, editor. Penguin Classics, 1966; 2007. [Publisher, UK; Publisher, USA; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
    (3) Secret History. H. B. Dewing, translator. Loeb Classical Library, number 290.
  • History of the Wars. Loeb Classical Library, numbers 48, 81, 107, 173, 217.
  • On Buildings. Loeb Classical Library, number 343.

Other Books and Articles
on the same period and topics as Rosen's book, mostly published after Rosen wrote his book:

• Nicholas Wade, "Europe’s Plagues Came From China, Study Finds," The New York Times, 11 October 2010.
• Plague and the End of Antiquity: The Pandemic of 541-750. Lester K. Little, editor. Cambridge University Press, 2006. [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Averil Cameron. Procopius and the Sixth Century. Routledge, 1996 (first published: London: Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd, 1985). [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Gillian Clark. Late Antiquity: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2011. [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• J. A. S. Evans. The Age of Justinian: The Circumstances of Imperial Power. London: Routledge, 2000 (first published: 1996). [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Peter Heather. The Fall of the Roman Empire. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007 (first published: London: Macmillan, 2005). [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Peter Heather. Empires and Barbarians. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012 (first published: London: Macmillan, 2009). [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Peter Heather. The Restoration of Rome: Barbarian Popes and Imperial Pretenders. London: Macmillan, 2013. [Amazon.co.uk.]
• Anthony Kaldellis. Procopius of Caesarea: Tyranny, History, and Philosophy at the End of Antiquity. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Peter Sarris. Economy and Society in the Age of Justinian. Cambridge University Press, 2009 (first published: 2006). [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Peter Sarris. Empires of Faith: The Fall of Rome to the Rise of Islam, 500-700. Oxford University Press, 2011. [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Julia Smith. Europe after Rome: A New Cultural History, 500-1000. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007 (first published: 2005). [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Bryan Ward-Perkins. The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006 (first published: 2005). [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Chris Wickham. Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007 (first published: 2005). [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Chris Wickham. The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages 400-1000. New York: Viking Penguin, 2009. [Publisher, UK; Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

Brown, The World of Late Antiquity: AD 150-750 (1971; 1989)

Peter Brown.
The World of Late Antiquity: AD 150-750.
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1989.
First published: London: Thames and Hudson, Ltd., 1971.

Book information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

Peter Brown, Department of History, Princeton University.

Paul Freedman, "HIST 210: The Early Middle Ages, 284–1000" (YouTube playlist), Open Yale Courses, Fall 2011.

Some Wikipedia Articles:

• Peter Brown (historian).
• Crisis of the Third Century, a period of the Roman Empire, 235–284.
• Dominate, a period of the Roman Empire, 284-395 or 284-476.
• Decline of the Roman Empire.
• Late Antiquity.
• Early Middle Ages.

My previous post on this book is here, 08 March 2004.

Warning: I see in a recent review on Amazon.com that the publisher has allowed the issuing of "print-on-demand" black & white copies of this book. The abundant illustrations, many in color, are an important part of this book so readers should avoid the "print-on-demand" copies.