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.
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.
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.
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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
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
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