Collected Papers on Suetonius

<p>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.</p><p>Although Suetonius is well known for his <i>Lives </i>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 <em>Illustrious Men</em> and <em>Lives of the Caesars</em>. It also has a new introduction and represents over a dozen years of research on an essential Latin source for Roman history.</p><p>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.</p>