Suetonius the Biographer: Studies in Roman Lives 2013957442, 9780199697106, 0199697108

The biographer Suetonius is one of the most fascinating writers of ancient Rome, but he is rarely afforded serious criti

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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

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