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If you find it difficult to remember dates of the sources, try making these connections.

Empire sources and emperors

 

Augustus BC

Ovid      Livy

Augustus

      - 14 AD

 

Tiberius

   14-37

 

Caligula

   37-41

 

Claudius

   41-54

Invasion of Britain 43

Nero

   54-68

Seneca     Petronius

fire of Rome 64

year of 4

      69

 

Vespasian

   69-79

Jerusalem falls 70

Pliny the elder

Vesuvius 79

Titus

   79-81

Statius

Domitian

   81-96

Martial

Nerva

   96-98

 

Trajan

   98-117

Tacitus

Pliny the younger

Hadrian

   117-138

Plutarch

Suetonius

Juvenal

Antoninus Pius

   138-161

Appian

M. Aurelius

   161-180

 

 

You could do the same yourself for other sources.

Make sure you answer the actual question