Sources for Augustus and Tiberius

Books: (see also General Reference Works)

Bartman, Elizabeth. Portraits of Livia: Imaging the Imperial Woman in Augustan Rome. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Grant, Michael. History of Rome. New York: Scribner, 1978.

Kebric, Robert B. Roman People. Mountain View: Mayfield, 1993.

Kleiner, Diana E., E., and Susan B. Matheson. I Claudia: Women in Ancient Rome. New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1996.

Mellor, Ronald, ed. From Augustus to Nero: The First Dynasty of Imperial Rome. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1990.

Suetonius, Gaius. The Twelve Caesars. Edited by Michael Grant and translated by Robert Graves. New York: Penguin, 1979.

Zanker, Paul. The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus. Translated by Alan Shapiro. Jerome Lectures; 16th series. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1988.

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busts of Augustus and family cameo of Augustus with aegis denarius of Octavian with Venus and Octavian as general cameo of deified Augustus bust of Augustus with corona civica
Augustus and family Augustus cameo coin of Octavian Augustus cameo bust of Augustus
Heraklion Archaeological Museum, 1st century CE British Museum, 1st century CE Pergamon Museum, pre 31 BCE Cologne R-G Museum, 1st century CE Munich Glyptoteck, 45-50 CE

Altar of the Lares Prima Porta Augustus statue of Augustus as Zeus statue of togate Augustus statue of Augustus as pontifex bust of Octavia (?)
Altar of Lares Prima Porta Augustus Augustus as Zeus togate Augustus Augustus as pontifex bust of Octavia
Uffizi Museum, end 1st century BCE Vatican Museum, end 1st century BCE Hermitage Museum Uffizi Museum Terme Museum Arezzo, Archaeological Museum, end 1st century BCE

bust of Agrippa Roma panel and family procession imperial family procession procession of senators equestrian statue of Augustan prince (?)
bust of Agrippa Ara Pacis Ara Pacis Ara Pacis equestrian statue
cast from EUR Ara Pacis, Rome Ara Pacis, Rome Ara Pacis, Rome British Museum

bust of Augustan prince (?) bust of Agrippina Maior statue of Livia statue of Livia headless statue of Livia
Augustan prince Agrippina Maior statue of Livia statue of Livia statue of Livia
Mainz Landesmuseum, 1st century CE cast from EUR Madrid Archaeological Museum, 1st century CE Madrid Archaeological Museum (cast from EUR) Munich, Glyptoteck, after 14 CE

bust of Livia bust of Livia bust of Livia cameo of Livia with bust of Augustus statue of Livia
bust of Livia bust of Livia bust of Livia cameo of Livia statue of Livia
Vienna KH Museum, end 1st century BCE British Museum, c. 30-20 BCE Hermitage Museum, 1st century CE Vienna KH Museum, after 14 CE Vatican Museum, end 1st century BCE

statue of Drusus Maior bust of Drusus Maior bronze head of Tiberius bust of Tiberius bust of Tiberius
Drusus Maior Drusus Maior head of Tiberius bust of Tiberius bust of Tiberius
Vatican Gregorian Museum cast from EUR British Museum. 1st century CE British Museum. 1st century CE Hermitage Museum. 1st century CE

ruins of Villa Iovis Villa Iovis, execution point bust of Germanicus bust of Drusus Minor bust of Agrippina Minor
Villa Iovis execution point bust of Germanicus Drusus Minor Agrippina Minor
Capri Capri cast from EUR Uffizi Museum Munich, Glyptoteck

bust of Agrippina Minor statue of Agrippina Minor with goddess attributes bust of Caligula
Agrippina Minor Agrippina Minor bust of Caligula
Getty Museum, c. 60 CE Vatican Gregorian Museum, 1st century CE Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st century CE

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revised November, 2001
Barbara F. McManus