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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Suetonius"”.
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Suetonius’ Organizational Craft
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, a Roman civil servant in the first and second centuries CE, was the author of a biographical collection of Rome’s first twelve imperial rulers. My dissertation focuses on this collection, the Caesars, and in it I describe Suetonius’ organizational and structural methods …
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Reading character in Suetonius’ De vita Caesarum
… by examining how the structure (form) of Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus’ imperial biographies, De uita Caesarum (DVC), contributes to the characterization (function) of its subjects through the process of reading. Suetonius arranged his biographical material according to both chronology (per …
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Suetonius and the Politics of Private Life
… the role of the emperor’s ‘private life’ in Suetonius’ *Lives of the Caesars* against the backdrop of contemporary political discourse. Suetonius is (in)famous for writing more about an emperor’s love affairs, dining habits or pastimes than about speeches in the senate or military campaigns, …
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Life and character of Tiberius: based upon Velleius, Suetonius and Tacitus
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Sex in Suetonius: Sexual Material as a Characterisation Device for Tyrannical Emperors
This thesis analyses the ways in which Suetonius uses sexual material as a characterisation device in his de Vita Caesarum. While Suetonius’ detailed descriptions of the emperors’ sex lives have long entertained readers, scholars usually dismiss them as scarcely credible gossip. However, these …
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Comparison Between the Histories of Tacitus and Suetonius in Their Treatment of the Emperor Tiberius
… Sallust intended to obtain literary recognition; Suetonius furnished eminent gossip to the populace of Rome in the form of history, while Livy and Tacitus, great patriots and admirers of their country’s greatness, tried to show the whole world the Roman super-man.
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Drawn from the Life: Literary Techniques and the Representation of Complex Characters in Suetonius’ De vita Caesarum
This thesis explores the ways in which Suetonius’ De vita Caesarum represents complex characters beyond simple ciphers of virtue and vice. The first chapter maps out three dimensions of characterization demonstrated in ancient writing (baseline, dissonant, and realistic). The second chapter applies …
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Memory And Moderation: The Imperial Image Of Augustus And Its Perception Among Later Authors
… </p> <p>The fourth chapter will discuss Suetonius' career as an imperial secretary under Trajan and its impact on his work. Suetonius enjoyed a post-Domitianic career and did not witness the same atrocities as Pliny and Tacitus. Thus, Suetonius lacked the impetus to convey the moderation …
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DECUS POSTERITAS REPENDIT: Reevaluating Cremutius Cordus in Tacitus' Annals
… by the differences between the accounts of Suetonius and Seneca the Younger. I argue that Tacitus is closer to Suetonius than Seneca in his feelings towards Cordus; Tacitus and Suetonius both distrust historians with strong partisan (i.e., Republican) beliefs, and Cordus, I show, is yoked by …
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Conspiracy Narratives in Latin Literature
… words and locutions in Caesar, Sallust and Suetonius to establish the existence of a common vocabulary that provides the ideological basis for structuring the Roman conspiracy narrative. The fourth chapter summarizes what has been discovered about the narration of conspiracy and concludes …
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Hero or Tyrant: Images of Julius Caesar in Selected Works from Vergil to Bruni
… found in the works of Vergil, Lucan, and Suetonius. Each author's interpretation of Caesar was also impacted by the political and intellectual milieu in which he flourished. Analysis of Caesar's image over this time period serves not only as a part of Caesar historiography, but also …
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Language and the politics of Roman identity
… detail: the different layers of bilingualism in Suetonius’ biographies; Greek in the graffiti of Pompeii; epigraphic and literary evidence for different languages in the city of Rome. These case studies demonstrate the politics of language in different types of practice and at different levels of …
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Satur(n◆alic◆i)a Regna: The Neronian Grotesque and the Satires of Seneca, Persiuis, and Petronius
… critique, and who better to criticize than (Suetonius and Tacitus' construction of) Nero? But looking at the satire from a non-‐classical perspective, that of Bakhtin's grotesque, leads to an interesting conclusion. These three satirists are in sync with the festive and aesthetic values of …
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Studies in the Ancient Reception of Seneca the Younger
… but also Pliny’s *Panegyricus* (Ch.3.4a), Suetonius’ *Nero* (Ch.3.4b), and Fronto’s letters (Ch.2.*fin*.). All of these authors exhibit a hitherto underestimated familiarity with Seneca’s works and often allude to them in a pointed, significant manner, thus using Seneca as a voice to think …