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__**Master List of Documents:**__
// Some general notes about these documents: // // Words in parentheses are uncertain translations, usually due to gaps in the papyrus; "..." indicates a completely missing word from the document. // Cassius Dio, 20-23, 37 || 60s BCE || Mediterranean || Michael Burke ||
 * # || Document ||  || Type of Material || Date || Place || Student ||
 * 1 || Murder of Augustus? ||  || Tacitus' Annales I.5-6 || 1st cent CE || Rome || Elizabeth Marriott ||
 * 2. || Mutiny on the Rhine ||  || Tacitus' Annales I.39-45 || 1st cent CE || Rhine || Jenny Long ||
 * 3. || Violence, Gladiators, and Actors in Rome ||  || Tacitus' Annales I.76-77 || 1st Cent CE || Rome || Sarah Rosenquist ||
 * 4. || Philanthropy ||  || Public Inscription || 1st cent CE || Italy || Kyle Short ||
 * 5. || Rowdy Soldiers ||  || Petition || 238CE || Thrace || Maggie Dewar ||
 * //6.// || Removed by request of Student ||  || Legal Case || 49CE || Egypt ||   ||
 * 7. || Injured Slave ||  || Legal petition || 1st-2nd century CE || Egypt || Troy Robertson ||
 * 8. || Emperor's Pep Rally ||  || Inscription || 128 CE || N. Africa ||   ||
 * 9. || Pompeius and the Pirates ||  || Cassius Dio
 * 10. || Rags to Riches ||  || Funeral Inscription || ? || Tunisia || Lindsey G ||
 * 11. || Destruction of Carthage ||  || Cassius Dio 21.27-30. || 146 BCE || Carthage || Peter Lugten ||
 * 12. || Fire and Famine - Augustus ||  || Cassius Dio 55.24-27 || 1st century BCE || Rome || Alexandra Watkins ||
 * 13. || Destruction of Temple in Jerusalem ||  || Cassius Dio 65.4-7 || 69 CE || Jerusalem || Joshua Grow ||
 * 14. || Character of Hadrian ||  || Cassius Dio 69.3-7 || 2nd century CE || Rome || Josh Kaylor ||
 * 15. || Bulla Felix the Robber Chief ||  || Cassius Dio 77.10 || 3rd cent. CE || Italy || Jaime McCoy ||
 * 16. || Murder of Agrippina (Exploding Boat) ||  || Tacitus, _Ann._ 14.3-8 || 1st cent CE || Rome || David Sammut ||
 * 17. || Revolt of Boadicea ||  || Tacitus, _Ann._, 14.8.31-37 || 1st cent CE || Britain ||   ||
 * .18. || Elagabalus, the Debauched Emperor ||  || Cassius Dio 80.8-17 || 3rd cent CE || Rome || Andrew Cooper ||
 * 19. || Great Fire of Rome and Persecution of Christians ||  || Tacitus, Ann. 15.38-44 || 60s CE || Rome || Tyler Duncan ||
 * 20. || Antoninus Pius, a Good Emperor ||  || Historia Augusta, Antoninus Pius 7-9 || mid-2nd cent CE || Rome ||   ||
 * 21. || Sayings of Scipio Africanus ||  || Plutarch, Sayings of Romans, Moralia, 197 || mid-2nd cent CE || Rome/Greece || Noah King ||
 * 22. || Caesar and the Pirates ||  || Suetonius, JC, 4-7 || early 1st cent BCE || Mediterranean || Sarah Morris ||
 * 23. || Caesar's Domestic Agenda as Dictator ||  || Suetonius, JC, 39-44. || early 1st. cent. BCE || Rome || Joseph Cooper ||
 * 24. || Caesar as Military Commander ||  || Suetonius, JC, 57-68 || 50s BCE || Gaul || Ryan Hannah ||
 * 25. || Early Life of Tiberius ||  || Suetonius, Tib, 6-9 || late 1st cent BCE || Rome || Jacob Porath ||
 * 26. || Early Life of Claudius ||  || Suetonius, Claud, 2-8 || 1st century CE || Rome || Sean Ellicott ||
 * 27. || Life of Galba - dealing with difficult emperors ||  || Suetonius. Galba, 6-9 || 1st cent. CE || Mediterranean || Heba Abdel-Messieh ||
 * 28. || Early Life of Vespasian ||  || Suetonius, Vespasian, 2-4 || 1st cent CE || Italy || Kortney Lee ||
 * 29. || Vitellius: A Corrupt Political Career ||  || Suetonius, Vitellius 2-7 || 1st cent CE || Italy ||   ||
 * 30. || Scipio's Siege of New Carthage ||  || Polybius, 10.8-17 || 2nd cent BCE || Spain || Mark Dzakowic ||