Augustan elegists: text and commentary
• Joan Booth, Catullus to Ovid: Reading Latin love elegy. A literary commentary with Latin text, translations by G. Lee and J. Booth (Bloomsbury Classical Press, 1999).
Res Gestae: text and commentary
• Res Gestae Divi Augusti: The Achievements of the Divine Augustus, edited by P. A. Brunt and J. M. Moore (Oxford University Press, 1967).
• Res Gestae Divi Augusti: Text, Translation, and Commentary, edited by Alison E. Cooley (Cambridge University Press, 2009).
• Res Gestae Divi Augusti, edited by Cynthia Damon (Bryn Mawr Latin Commentaries, 1995).
Background Reading:
• W. Eck, The Age of Augustus, 2nd edition (Blackwell Publishing 2007).
• K. Galinsky, Augustus: introduction to the life of an emperor (Cambridge 2012).
• R.O.A.M. Lyne, The Latin Love Poets from Catullus to Horace (Oxford, 1980)
• H. H. Scullard, From the Gracchi to Nero: A history of Rome from 133 B.C. to A.D. 68 (Routledge 1959).
• T.S. Thorsen (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Latin Love Elegy (Cambridge, 2013)
Further Reading:
• J. Elsner, ‘Inventing Imperium: Texts and the Propaganda of Monuments in Augustan Rome’, in: Art and Text in Roman Culture (Cambridge University Press 1996) 32-53.
• S. Güven, ‘Displaying the Res Gestae of Augustus: A Monument of Imperial Image for All’, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 57 (1998) 30-45
• P. Hardie (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Ovid (Cambridge, 2002)
• D.F. Kennedy, The Arts of Love: Five Studies in the Discourse of Roman Love Elegy (Cambridge, 1993)
• L.Morgan, 'Escapes from Orthodoxy: Poetry of the Late Republic', In O.Taplin (ed.) Literature in the Greek and Roman Worlds (Oxford, 2000), pp.336-358.
• P. Lee-Steecum, Powerplay in Tibullus (Cambridge, 1998)
• E. S. Ramage, The Nature and Purpose of Augustus’ Res Gestae (Steiner 1987).
• R. Ridley, The Emperor’s Retrospect: Augustus’ ‘Res Gestae’ in Epigraphy, Historiography, and Commentary. Studia Hellenistica 39 (Peeters 2003).
• M. Wyke, The Roman Mistress (Oxford, 2002)
• Z. Yavetz, ‘The Res Gestae and Augustus’ public image.’ In: Caesar Augustus: Seven Aspects, eds. F. Millar and E. Segal (Oxford 1984),1-36.