Suetonius: Domitian - Couverture souple

Suetonius

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1853994545 ISBN 13 : 9781853994548

Editeur : Bristol Classical Press, 2011

Synopsis

The emperor Domitian (AD 81-96) is often seen as a second Nero, and like him, as a persecutor of Christians. Agricola, Father in law to the historian Tacitus, died during his reign and what Tacitus has to say in his Agricola is uniformly hostile. So too are references to Domitian in the works of Pliny the Younger, himself a friend of Tacitus and patron of Suetonius. Suetonius' Domitian is far from a 'white-wash' of the emperor but is the most balanced of our surviving sources.

This edition offers a newly revised text with a general introduction and detailed commentary, which do not ignore the literary and linguistic questions but concentrate on the political and social history behind the life. Comparison is continually being drawn between the Life and other accounts of the reign, especially that of Dio Cassius.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, commonly known as Suetonius (c. 69 - after 122), was a Roman historian belonging to the equestrian order who wrote during the early Imperial era of the Roman Empire.

Brian W. Jones is Reader in the Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Queensland, Australia. He is the author of The Emperor Titus (1984) and The Emperor Domitian (1992).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bristol Classical Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1853994545
• ISBN 13: 9781853994548
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 176
• Éditeur: Jones Brian W.
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