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Suetonius

Author : Suetonius
Publisher : Clarendon Ancient History
ISBN 13 : 0199686459
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Suetonius written by Suetonius and published by Clarendon Ancient History. This book was released on 2014 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suetonius' Life of Augustus is the most commonly read ancient account of the life of Rome's first emperor, presenting a mass of historical and biographical detail about both his public and personal lives. This volume provides the first large-scale commentary on Suetonius' work in English, drawing out what is unique about Suetonius' information, discussing how it relates to other ancient accounts, and assessing its historical reliability. The commentary is the first to be accessible to readers without any knowledge of Latin or Greek due to its use of English lemmata, while the new translation remains faithful to the original Latin. Accompanied by an introduction which investigates the career of Suetonius, the date of the Lives of the Caesars, the structure of the Life of Augustus, the various sources utilized by Suetonius, and the way in which the reader should approach this complex text, the commentary also looks to examine Suetonius' work not just as a repository of facts, but as a literary artefact carefully constructed by its author.

How to Be a Bad Emperor

Author : Suetonius
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691200947
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book How to Be a Bad Emperor written by Suetonius and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would Caligula do? What the worst Roman emperors can teach us about how not to lead If recent history has taught us anything, it's that sometimes the best guide to leadership is the negative example. But that insight is hardly new. Nearly 2,000 years ago, Suetonius wrote Lives of the Caesars, perhaps the greatest negative leadership book of all time. He was ideally suited to write about terrible political leaders; after all, he was also the author of Famous Prostitutes and Words of Insult, both sadly lost. In How to Be a Bad Emperor, Josiah Osgood provides crisp new translations of Suetonius's briskly paced, darkly comic biographies of the Roman emperors Julius Caesar, Tiberius, Caligula, and Nero. Entertaining and shocking, the stories of these ancient anti-role models show how power inflames leaders' worst tendencies, causing almost incalculable damage. Complete with an introduction and the original Latin on facing pages, How to Be a Bad Emperor is both a gleeful romp through some of the nastiest bits of Roman history and a perceptive account of leadership gone monstrously awry. We meet Caesar, using his aunt's funeral to brag about his descent from gods and kings—and hiding his bald head with a comb-over and a laurel crown; Tiberius, neglecting public affairs in favor of wine, perverse sex, tortures, and executions; the insomniac sadist Caligula, flaunting his skill at cruel put-downs; and the matricide Nero, indulging his mania for public performance. In a world bristling with strongmen eager to cast themselves as the Caesars of our day, How to Be a Bad Emperor is a delightfully enlightening guide to the dangers of power without character.

The Caesars

Author : Suetonius
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603846034
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book The Caesars written by Suetonius and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donna Hurley has done a sterling job in providing us with both an Introduction to Suetonius and a translation of The Caesars that we can confidently recommend to students. Her Introduction summarizes a complex topic succinctly and is informative without being overwhelming, set at an ideal level for the student and intelligent enthusiast. Her translation is accurate and contemporary. Her primary goal is faithfulness to the original, which she achieves, but at the same time she recognizes the need to make her text clear, entertaining, and comprehensible to the modern reader, and she strikes exactly the right balance. --Anthony Barrett, Emeritus, University of British Columbia

Collected Papers on Suetonius

Author : Tristan Power
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000400417
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Collected Papers on Suetonius written by Tristan Power and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 such as Caligula and Nero, he is rarely studied in his own right, aside from grammatical or textual commentaries. This is the first volume by an expert on the author to make him accessible to a wider audience, looking at his biographies not only of emperors but also poets, and discovering new contemporary evidence for Jesus from one of Suetonius’ first-century sources. Other writers discussed include Homer, Sophocles, Catullus, Virgil, Horace, Curtius Rufus, Josephus, Plutarch, Pliny the Younger, Tacitus, Juvenal, and Cassius Dio. The book contains thirty-two papers in all, eleven of which are new, which examine Suetonius’ neglected historical value and literary skills, and offer textual conjectures on both the Illustrious Men and Lives of the Caesars. It also has a new introduction and represents over a dozen years of research on an essential Latin source for Roman history. Collected Papers on Suetonius provides an invaluable resource for students and researchers working on Suetonius. It also has broader significance for anyone studying Roman imperial history and culture, Latin literature, and classical historiography.

The Lives of the Twelve Caesars

Author : Suetonius
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Lives of the Twelve Caesars written by Suetonius and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Suetonius: Vespasian

Author : Suetonius
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Suetonius: Vespasian written by Suetonius and published by Bristol Classical Press. This book was released on 2000-09-21 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The emperor Vespasian (AD69-79) is universally regarded as one of the better Roman emperors. This edition of Suetonius' biography (the first since 1930) offers a newly revised text with a general introduction and detailed commentary.

An Epigraphic Commentary on Suetonius's Life of Tiberius

Author : Clara A. Holtzhausser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Book Synopsis An Epigraphic Commentary on Suetonius's Life of Tiberius by : Clara A. Holtzhausser

Download or read book An Epigraphic Commentary on Suetonius's Life of Tiberius written by Clara A. Holtzhausser and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

An Epigraphic Commentary on Suetonius's Life of Gaius Caligula

Author : Ruskin Raymond Rosborough
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis An Epigraphic Commentary on Suetonius's Life of Gaius Caligula by : Ruskin Raymond Rosborough

Download or read book An Epigraphic Commentary on Suetonius's Life of Gaius Caligula written by Ruskin Raymond Rosborough and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Caligula

Author : Suetonius
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141397934
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book Caligula written by Suetonius and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Because of his baldness and hairiness, he announced it was a capital offence for anyone either to look down on him as he passed or to mention goats in any context.' The biography of the brutal, crazed and incestuous Roman Emperor Caligula, who tried to appoint his own horse consul. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (c.70-130 CE). Suetonius's The Twelve Caesars is also available in Penguin Classics.

Suetonius: Domitian

Author : Suetonius
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Suetonius: Domitian written by Suetonius and published by Bristol Classical Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of Suetonius' account of the emperor Domitian. The book provides a detailed commentary on matters of historical importance in the text, together with a discussion of Suetonius' life. A comparison is offered between Suetonius' account and Dio's version. Latin sources are utilized.

Summary of Suetonius's The Twelve Caesars

Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
ISBN 13 : 1669365298
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (693 download)

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Download or read book Summary of Suetonius's The Twelve Caesars written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-03-25T22:59:00Z with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Caesar was very ambitious, and when he returned to Rome after serving with Marcus Thermus in Asia, he began trying to advancement. He was offered a lot of positions by Marcus Lepidus, but he turned them down. He had little confidence in Lepidus’ abilities, and he found the political atmosphere less promising than he had been led to believe. #2 When he became a military tribune, Caesar was assigned to Further Spain, where the praetorian governor sent him on an assize circuit. He was heard to sigh impatiently when he saw a statue of Alexander the Great in the Temple of Hercules. The soothsayers interpreted this dream to mean that he was destined to conquer the earth. #3 During his aedileship, Caesar began to plan a revolution in Rome. He wanted to limit the number of gladiators that anyone could keep in Rome, but his opponents rushed through a bill limiting the number of gladiators that anyone could keep in Rome. #4 After the Catilinarian conspiracy, the entire Roman Senate, with the exception of Caesar, demanded the death of those involved. Caesar only wanted them to be imprisoned and their estates confiscated. He so browbeat those senators who took a sterner line that Decimus Silanus, as consul-elect, felt obliged to interpret his own proposal more liberally.

The seven kings of Rome

Author : Livy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The seven kings of Rome written by Livy and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Deconstructing Imperial Representation: Tacitus, Cassius Dio, and Suetonius on Nero and Domitian

Author : Verena Schulz
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004407553
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Book Synopsis Deconstructing Imperial Representation: Tacitus, Cassius Dio, and Suetonius on Nero and Domitian by : Verena Schulz

Download or read book Deconstructing Imperial Representation: Tacitus, Cassius Dio, and Suetonius on Nero and Domitian written by Verena Schulz and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-06-24 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the literary strategies that Tacitus, Cassius Dio, and Suetonius apply in depicting the eccentric emperors Nero and Domitian and their imperial representation.

Studies on the Text of Suetonius' 'De Uita Caesarum'

Author : Robert A. Kaster
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198758471
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (584 download)

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Download or read book Studies on the Text of Suetonius' 'De Uita Caesarum' written by Robert A. Kaster and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies on the Text of Suetonius' De uita Caesarum is a companion volume to the critical edition of Suetonius' Lives of the Caesars in the Oxford Classical Texts series, edited by Robert Kaster. It provides detailed insight into the research and textual analysis behind the edition. Part I presents the first comprehensive and accurate account of the medieval manuscript tradition (ninth to thirteenth centuries) on which the Oxford Classical Text is based, and Part II analyses hundreds of passages where a variety of textual problems are encountered, often offering new solutions. Four appendices provide additional support to the arguments of Part I, while a fifth lists all the places (just over 300) where the new text differs from the edition by Maximilian Ihm that has been the standard since 1907.

Nero

Author : Suetonius
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781517121006
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Nero written by Suetonius and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-08-29 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, commonly known as Suetonius (c. 69 - after 122 AD), was a Roman historian belonging to the equestrian order who wrote during the early Imperial era of the Roman Empire. His most important surviving work is a set of biographies of twelve successive Roman rulers, from Julius Caesar to Domitian, entitled De Vita Caesarum. He recorded the earliest accounts of Julius Caesar's epileptic seizures. Other works by Suetonius concern the daily life of Rome, politics, oratory, and the lives of famous writers, including poets, historians, and grammarians. A few of these books have partially survived, but many have been lost. Suetonius portrays the life of Nero in a similar fashion to that of Caligula-it begins with a recounting of how Nero assumed the throne ahead of Claudius' son Britannicus and then descends into a recounting of various atrocities the young emperor allegedly performed. One characteristic of Nero that Suetonius describes was Nero's enjoyment of music. Suetonius describes Nero as being a gifted musician. Nero would often give great concerts with attendance compelled for upper class Romans. These concerts would last for hours on end, and some women were rumored to give birth during them, or men faking death to escape (Nero forbade anyone from leaving the performance until it was completed). Nero's eccentricities continued in the tradition of his predecessors in mind and personal perversions. According to Suetonius, Nero had one boy named Sporus castrated, and then had sex with him as though he were a woman. Suetonius quotes one Roman who lived around this time who remarked that the world would have been better off if Nero's father Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus had married someone more like the castrated boy. It is in Suetonius we find the beginnings of the legend that Nero "fiddled as Rome burned." Suetonius recounts how Nero, while watching Rome burn, exclaimed how beautiful it was, and sang an epic poem about the sack of Troy while playing the lyre. Suetonius describes Nero's suicide, and remarks that his death meant the end of the reign of the Julio-Claudians (because Nero had no heir). According to Suetonius, Nero was condemned to die by the Senate. When Nero knew that soldiers had been dispatched by the Senate to kill him, he committed suicide.

Divus Augustus

Author : Suetonius
Publisher : Franklin Classics Trade Press
ISBN 13 : 9780353373280
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (732 download)

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Download or read book Divus Augustus written by Suetonius and published by Franklin Classics Trade Press. This book was released on 2018-11-11 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Suetonius

Author : Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Suetonius written by Andrew Wallace-Hadrill and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 1983 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the "Lives of the Caesars" as a document of the culture and attitudes of the early empire. Suetonius is placed in his true literary context as a man of learning rather than a failed narrative historian; and emperors and imperial society are seen through the eyes of a scholarly biographer who himself served a scholarly Caesar, the Emperor Hadrian.