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Primary Sources 12 July 2008
Res gestae divi augusti The emperor's own account of his works and deeds. The Latin text is available from Biblioteca augustana, or in small type, with a photo of Augustus' mausoleum, from the website of John Paul Adams. A more idiomatic translation of the whole work, by Thomas Bushnell, is available from the MIT Classics Archives. Another selection, translated by William Stearns Davis (1913), is available from the Internet Ancient History Sourcebook. Augustus Epistula ad Gaium filium The Latin text of a letter from the emperor to his son. (Biblioteca augustana) Nicolaus of Damascus (fl. first century BC) Life of Augustus The Greek life by Nicolaus of Damascus, Herod the Great's teacher (in rhetoric philosopher) and ambassador to Augustus. English translation by Clayton M. Hall (1923). C. Tranquillus Suetonius Vita Divi Augusti The Latin text of a more intimate biography, from the Lives of the Twelve Caesars. John Paul Adams has written an outline of the vita, and an English translation, by Alexander Thomson (1883), is available online from the Ancient History Sourcebook. P. Cornelius Tacitus The End of the Republic From Annales, book 1. Adapted from a translation by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb. (Internet Ancient History Sourcebook) Horace, Virgil Augustan Encomiums Selections from Horace (Carmen saeculare) and Virgil (Aen. 6.789-800, 847-53) edited by William Stearns Davis (1913), English translation modernized by J. S. Arkenberg. (Internet Ancient History Sourcebook) John Paul Adams The Mausoleum of Augustus and the Res Gestae Cites inscriptions, contemporary descriptions of Augustus' burial, with English translations, a plan of the mausoleum complex, and a list of interments. Mary R. Lefkowitz and Maureen B. Fant The Julian Marriage Laws English translations of Augustan legislation on marriage, procreation, and adultery. Plutarch Life of Mark Antony Translated by John Dryden. Includes description of Caesar's assassination. (MIT Classics Archive)
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