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 su...
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London ; New York :
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Table of Contents:
- 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.