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SPECIALIZED STUDIES
Angelova, Diliana. Sacred Founders: Women, Men, and Gods in the Discourse of Imperial Founding, Rome Through Early Byzantium. Oakland: University of California Press, 2015.
Barrett, Anthony. Livia: First Lady of Imperial Rome. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002.
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SPECIALIZED STUDIES
De la Bédoyère, Guy. Praetorian: The Rise and Fall of Rome’s Imperial Bodyguard. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2017.
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SPECIALIZED STUDIES
Ball, Larry F. The Domus Aurea and the Roman Architectural Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
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SPECIALIZED STUDIES
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SPECIALIZED STUDIES
Keltanen, M. “The Public Image of the Four Empresses: Ideal Wives, Mothers and Regents?,” in Päivi Setälä. Women, Wealth and Power in the Roman Empire (Rome: Institutum romanum Finlandiae, 2002), 105–46.
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BIOGRAPHIES
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SPECIALIZED STUDIES
Boatwright, Mary Taliaferro. Hadrian and the Cities of the Roman Empire. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002.
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MARCUS AURELIUS
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SPECIALIZED STUDIES
Harper, Kyle. The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease and the End of an Empire. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017, 64–118.
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