Episode 82. A Tour of the Empire, c. 68 CE

Works CitedPrimary Sources

Cassius Dio. Roman History, particularly the books covering the Julio-Claudian period, with substantial geographic-administrative material throughout.
The inscriptional record. The legionary establishment data is principally from the dedicatory inscriptions, military diplomas, and other epigraphic sources that preserve the locations and identities of the legionary units of the early imperial period.
Pliny the Elder. Natural History, especially Books 3 through 6. Composed in the 70s CE and preserving the most detailed contemporary geographic survey of the imperial system.
Strabo. Geography, in seventeen books. Composed in the early imperial period and preserving substantial material on the geography of the empire as it existed under Augustus and Tiberius.
Tacitus. Annals and Histories. Preserving substantial material on the provincial administration of the Julio-Claudian and early Flavian periods.

Secondary Sources

Campbell, Brian. The Roman Army, 31 BC to AD 337. Routledge, 1994. Substantial material on the geographic distribution and political role of the imperial legions.
Garnsey, Peter, and Richard Saller. The Roman Empire: Economy, Society and Culture. Second edition, Bloomsbury, 2014. The standard scholarly textbook on the imperial system, with substantial material on provincial economies and administrative structures.
Jones, A. H. M. The Cities of the Eastern Roman Provinces. Second edition, Oxford University Press, 1971. The classic detailed treatment of the urban network of the eastern provinces.
Mattern, Susan. Rome and the Enemy: Imperial Strategy in the Principate. University of California Press, 1999. The standard scholarly treatment of the military-geographic structure of the empire.
Millar, Fergus. The Roman Empire and its Neighbours. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1967. Standard older treatment with substantial geographic-administrative material.
Woolf, Greg. Becoming Roman. Cambridge University Press, 1998. Major work on the Romanisation of Gaul and the western provinces.

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