For a bibliography, see:
- R. Klein, ed., Marc Aurel. Wege de Forschung 50 (Darmstadt, 1979), 503–29.
On Marcus' childhood, see:
- A.S.L. Farquharson, Marcus Aurelius: his life and his world (1951, rept. Greenwood Press, 1975), ed. D.A. Rees.
On Panthea, see:
- Caroline Vout, Power and Eroticism in Imperial Rome (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007), ch. 5.
On the Syrian legions, see:
- E. Wheeler, "The laxity of Syrian legions", Journal of Roman Archaeology 19 (1996): 229–76.
On the rain miracle and for a general account of the War of the Nations:
- Péter Kovács, Marcus Aurelius' Rain Miracle and the Marcomannic Wars. Mnemosyne Supplements 308 (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2009). BMCR
On legal status, see:
- P. Garnsey, Social Status and Legal Privilege in the Roman Empire (1970)
Syme's writings on everything are held to be particularly important. Blergh: The Roman Papers are outrageously priced. I will assemble specific citations from Birley and McLynn so that, on the next trip to the library, I can speedily assemble the references.
Renan's Marc-Aurèle et la fin du monde antique is online, as is its translation.
On various items, see:
- Michael Petrus Josephus van den Hout's A commentary on the Letters of M. Cornelius Fronto Mnemosyne Supplements 190 (Brill, 1999). It looks long (725 pp.) and happy. We should consult it after writing up M. C. Fronto and related Antonine careerists from Champlin and Birley, though.
- P. Monceaux, Les africains: étude sur la littérature latine d'Afrique (1894)
On the Second Sophistic, see:
- G. Bowersock, Greek Sophists in the Roman Empire (1969)
- Graham Anderson, The Second Sophistic. A Cultural Phenomenon in the Roman Empire (New York: Routledge, 1993)