Table of contents : Cover Preface Contents List of Contributors Editions and Abbreviations Introduction: The Originality of Suetonius Tristan Power Part I Formal Features 1. Suetonius’ Rubric Sandwich Donna W. Hurley 2. Suetonius the Ventriloquist Cynthia Damon 3. The Endings of Suetonius’ Caesars Tristan Power Part II Reading the Lives 4. Was Suetonius’ Julius a Caesar? John Henderson 5. Exemplary Influences and Augustus’ Pernicious Moral Legacy Rebecca Langlands 6. E.g. Augustus: exemplum in the Augustus and Tiberius Erik Gunderson 7. Rhetorics of Assassination: Ironic Reversal and the Emperor Gaius Donna W. Hurley 8. Another Look at Suetonius’ Titus W. Jeffrey Tatum 9. The Mirror in the Text: Privacy, Performance, and the Power of Suetonius’ Domitian Jean-Michel Hulls Part III Biographical Thresholds 10. Suetonius and the uiri illustres of Pliny the Younger Roy K. Gibson 11. Suetonius’ Famous Courtesans Tristan Power 12. Suetonius and the Origin of Pantomime T. P. Wiseman 13. Suetonius and the De uita Caesarum in the Carolingian Empire Jamie Wood Bibliography Index Locorum General Index