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.

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Tristan Power has taught Classics at Columbia University and is the co-editor of Suetonius the Biographer: Studies in Roman Lives (2014). He has also published on the Roman poet Catullus.

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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 13.118 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