| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 338 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction: The originality of Suetonius / Tristan Power -- Suetonius' rubric sandwich / Donna W. Hurley -- Suetonius the ventriloquist / Cynthia Damon -- The endings of Suetonius' Caesars / Tristan Power -- Was Suetonius' Julius a Caesar? / John Henderson -- Exemplary influences and Augustus' pernicious moral legacy / Rebecca Langlands -- E.g. Augustus : exemplum in the Augustus and Tiberius / Erik Gunderson -- Rhetorics of assassination : ironic reversal and the emperor Gaius / Donna W. Hurley -- Another look at Suetonius' Titus / W. Jeffrey Tatum -- The mirror in the text : privacy, performance, and the power of Suetonius' Domitian / Jean-Michel Hulls -- Suetonius and the uiri illustres of Pliny the Younger / Roy K. Gibson -- Suetonius' Famous Courtesans -- Tristan Power -- Suetonius and the origin of pantomime / T.P. Wiseman -- Suetonius and the De uita Caesarum in the Carolingian Empire / Jamie Wood |
| Summary |
This book is the first full book of essays on Suetonius to be published in English. It redirects focus on the author to his task as a biographer, and to the way in which his unique interests and style inform his Lives. The book begins with an introduction that assesses the originality of Suetonius as a writer and situates the essays within the context of debates and controversies over his biographical form. It is then divided into three parts, each of which contains a variety of perspectives. The first discusses formal features of Suetonian biography, such as his literary techniques, manners of citation and quotation, and devices of allusion and closure. The middle section is devoted to readings of the individual Lives, treating several topics—from Suetonius’ decision to begin his collection with Julius Caesar, to fictional elements in his death scene of the emperor Caligula, to the theme of solitude in his Life of Domitian. The last part examines the ways in which Suetonius transgresses the boundaries of ancient biography, by looking at his influence on epistolographers, antiquarians, commentators, and later biographers |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Suetonius, approximately 69-approximately 122.
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| SUBJECT |
Suetonius, approximately 69-approximately 122 fast |
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- Rome.
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Historiography
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Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D. -- Historiography
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Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D. -- Sources
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Rome (Empire)
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Electronic books
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proceedings (reports)
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History
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Sources
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Power, Tristan, editor.
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Gibson, Roy K., editor.
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| ISBN |
9780191018015 |
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0191018015 |
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9780191779510 |
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0191779512 |
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