Suetonius (Classical Life & Letters S.) - Softcover
Suetonius, a Roman historian, was the author of "The Lives of the Caesars". This biography sets the historian's career and his method of dealing with his subject matter in the context of Roman society in the early Empire, and draws a picture of the coherence of Suetonius's life, appointments, scholarship and literary activities. Suetonius is presented as a man of learning, rather than as a failed narrative historian. This portrait takes account of recent evidence concerning his life and seeks to clarify the character of "The Lives of the Caesars" as a description of emperors and Roman imperial society by a scholarly biographer who himself was in the service of a scholarly Caesar - the Emperor Hadrian.
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- PublisherDuckworth
- Publication date1983
- ISBN 10 0715617915
- ISBN 13 9780715617915
- BindingPaperback
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SUETONIUS The Scholar and his Caesars
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Book Description 8vo. Original pictorial card covers (softback) (VG). Pp. viii + 216 (publisher's neat pencil inscription on half title). Seller Inventory # 165356
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Book Description Softcover. Condition: Good+. Coloured pencil marginalia and a few notes to some pages. Creasing to spine. Some rubbing to wraps. Scholar's small bookplate to ffep (R. E. Fantham). ; Suetonius, a Roman historian, was the author of "The Lives of the Caesars". This biography sets the historian's career and his method of dealing with his subject matter in the context of Roman society in the early Empire, and draws a picture of the coherence of Suetonius's life, appointments, scholarship and literary activities. Suetonius is presented as a man of learning, rather than as a failed narrative historian. This portrait takes account of recent evidence concerning his life and seeks to clarify the character of "The Lives of the Caesars" as a description of emperors and Roman imperial society by a scholarly biographer who himself was in the service of a scholarly Caesar - the Emperor Hadrian. ; Classical Life & Letters; 216 pages. Seller Inventory # 26607
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