Tristan Power

Collected Papers on Suetonius (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays by a leading authority on Suetonius, one of our most significant historical sources for the early Roman Empire, provides an in-depth examination of his works, whose literary value has in the past been overlooked.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000400410
• Artikelnr.: 61771046

Autorenporträt

Tristan Power has taught Classics at Columbia University and is the co-editor of Suetonius the Biographer: Studies in Roman Lives (2014). He has also published on the Roman poet Catullus.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Suetonius' Early Life in Pliny's Letters
PART I Illustrious Men
1 Pliny, Letters 5.10 and the Literary Career of Suetonius
2 Two Acrostics by Late Republican Poets in Suetonius
3 Calvus' Poetry in Suetonius and Pliny, Letters 5.3
4 Horace and the Gladiators Bithus and Bacchius
5 Juvenal, Satires 3.74 and Suetonius
6 The Orator Memmius in Suetonius
7 The Sister of Passienus Crispus
8 Suetonius and the Date of Curtius Rufus
PART II Poetic Allusions
9 Poetry and Fiction in Suetonius' Illustrious Men
10 Caesar and Sophocles' Electra
11 Pyrrhus and Priam in Suetonius' Tiberius
12 Claudius' Homeric Quotation
13 Galba, Onesimus, and Servitude
14 Priam and Pompey in Suetonius' Galba
15 Galba and Priam in Tacitus' Histories 16 The Servants' Taunt: Homer and Suetonius' Galba
PART III Textual Conjectures
17 Suetonius, De grammaticis 13.118 Suetonius, Iul. 49.2 and Galb. 20.1
19 Augustus' Mime of Life (Suetonius, Aug. 99.1)
20 Nero in Furs (Suet. Ner. 29)
21 Oedipal Nero: The Farewell Kiss
22 Suetonius, Galba 1: Beginning or Ending?
23 Vespasian's Sexual Iliad
24 Helvidius Priscus in Suetonius, Domitian 10.3
PART IV Suetonius and History
25 Suetonius' Tacitus
26 The Disgrace of Suetonius
27 Caligula and the Bludgeoned Priest
28 The Conspirator against Caligula
29 Jesus' Flight into Egypt in Suetonius
30 Nero's Cannibal (Suetonius, Nero 37.2)
31 Nero's Amazons, Sporus, and Alexander
32 Vitellius and the Baker and Cook