Suetonius - Couverture souple

Wallace-Hadrill, Andrew

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1853994510 ISBN 13 : 9781853994517

Editeur : Bristol Classical Press, 1998

Synopsis

Suetonius, a Roman historian, was the author of The Lives of the Caesars – one of the most vivid surviving documents of the early Roma empire. His biographies illuminate not only the political history of the twelve rulers from Julius Caesar to Domitian, but also the whole social and cultural world to which these Caesar’s belonged. In the first major study of Suetonius in English, Andrew Wallace-Hadrill places the biographer in the context of tastes and intellectual currents of the early second century AD, and uses the portraits of earlier emperors to cast light on the values and ideology of the court of the emperors Trajan and Hadrian whom he served.

Thanks to Suetonius’ attentions to the personal lives of the Caesar’s, their tastes, sexual preferences, and superstitions, and his neglect of grand affairs of state and military narrative , he has been underrated as a serious historical source and compared unfavourably with his contemporary, the historian Tacitus. Wallace-Hadrill looks freshly at Suetonius in his own terms as a scholarly and antiquarian writer rather than a failed narrative historian. He shows how biographies reveal aspects of early imperial society and culture which Tacitus’ narrative neglects, and how important he is as a source for the current generations of historians, interested as much in a society and culture as in politics and warfare.

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À propos de l'auteur

Andrew Wallace-Hadrill is Director of Research and Emeritus Professor of Roman Studies at the University of Cambridge, UK. He has been awarded an OBE for services to Anglo-Italian cultural relations and is a Fellow of the British Academy. His publications include Suetonius: The Scholar and his Caesars (1983) and Suetonius (1995), both available from Bloomsbury; and more recently Rome's Cultural Revolution (2008) and Herculaneum: Past and Future (2011).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bristol Classical Press
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1853994510
• ISBN 13: 9781853994517
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 228
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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