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    Prima Porta statue of Augustus, ca. 20 A.D. copy of 20 B.C. statue, found on the site of "Livia's Villa" on the Via Flaminia, 12 miles north of Rome.

      Augustan Sites on the Web:

    1. NEW! Cedar Rapids Museum of Art: Augustus (Portrait + Links)
    2. NEW! Octavian to Augustus: Timeline and Images Illustrating Augustus' Rise to Power Heavily illustrated with coins of the late Republic and early Principate.
    3. Augustus: Images of Power. Monuments, etc. built in the Age of Augustus
    4. The Ara Pacis, Augustus' Altar of Peace.
    5. NEW! University of Chicago's EOS (Electronic Open Stacks) version of Platner and Ashby's Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome.

      Augustus' career in his own words: Res Gestae Divi Augusti:

    6. The Deeds of Augustus (English)
    7. Res Gestae (Latin)
    8. Res Gestae in Tabulis (Latin epigraphical resource)
    9. And finally, some Augustan Legislation

      Late Republican and Early Imperial Historical Texts (in Latin unless otherwise specified):

    10. Julius Caesar: Commentaries
    11. Livy
    12. Nicolaus of Damascus "Early Life of Augustus" by a contemporary utilizing the memoirs written by Augustus (English)
    13. Plutarch's "Life of Mark Antony" (English) which utilizes Augustus' memoirs for the bits on Octavian.
    14. Suetonius
      1. Vita Divi Iulii
      2. Vita Divi Augusti
      3. "The Life of Augustus" by Suetonius (Worthington translation)
      4. Vita Tiberii
    15. Tacitus: On the End of the Republic and the Rise of Augustus a dissident viewpoint from an "elite" author of the late First, early Second century. (English)
    16. Velleius Paterculus

      Late Republican and Early Imperial Poetry and Prose:

    17. Catullus
    18. Cicero
    19. Horace: Odes, Epodes, Hymns.
    20. Lucretius
    21. Ovid:
      1. Metamorphoses, etc.
      2. Fasti
    22. Pliny the Elder's Natural History (from Lacus Curtius)
    23. Propertius
    24. Vergil

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