Collected papers on Suetonius /

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.Although Suetonius is well known for his Lives of emperors suc...

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Hlavní autor: Power, Tristan (Autor)
Typ dokumentu: Kniha
Jazyk:Angličtina
Vydáno: London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021
Vydání:First published
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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 13.1
  • 18, 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