Suetonius: Domitian
Title | Suetonius: Domitian PDF eBook |
Author | Suetonius |
Publisher | Bristol Classical Press |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
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An analysis of Suetonius' account of the emperor Domitian. The book provides a detailed commentary on matters of historical importance in the text, together with a discussion of Suetonius' life. A comparison is offered between Suetonius' account and Dio's version. Latin sources are utilized.
Deconstructing Imperial Representation: Tacitus, Cassius Dio, and Suetonius on Nero and Domitian
Title | Deconstructing Imperial Representation: Tacitus, Cassius Dio, and Suetonius on Nero and Domitian PDF eBook |
Author | Verena Schulz |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 422 |
Release | 2019-06-24 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9004407553 |
What literary strategies do Tacitus, Cassius Dio, and Suetonius apply in portraying Nero and Domitian? This book argues that the three authors respond to and deconstruct the positive accounts of imperial representation that were prevalent during the lifetimes of the two controversial emperors. They take up motifs from these earlier accounts, which they re-interpret to construct their own negative portraits. Although Tacitus, Cassius Dio, and Suetonius discuss the same historical figures and events of early imperial Rome, they are rarely examined together in one volume. Verena Schulz offers the first combined reading of their works from a philological viewpoint, analysing the various rhetorical techniques and narratological devices that they display, and the different literary and historical discourses in which they are embedded.
Suetonius: Vespasian
Title | Suetonius: Vespasian PDF eBook |
Author | Suetonius |
Publisher | Bristol Classical Press |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 2000-09-21 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
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The emperor Vespasian (AD69-79) is universally regarded as one of the better Roman emperors. This edition of Suetonius' biography (the first since 1930) offers a newly revised text with a general introduction and detailed commentary.
Domitian
Title | Domitian PDF eBook |
Author | Pat Southern |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 189 |
Release | 2013-12-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1317798449 |
This is the first ever study to assess Emperor Domitian from a psychological point of view and covers his entire career from the early years and the civil war AD through the imperial rule to the dark years and the psychology of suspicion. Pat Southern strips away hyperbole and sensationalism from the literary record, revealing an individual who caused undoubted suffering which must be accounted for.
The Emperor Domitian
Title | The Emperor Domitian PDF eBook |
Author | Brian Jones |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2002-09-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1134853130 |
Domitian, Emperor of Rome AD 81-96, has traditionally been portrayed as a tyrant, and his later years on the throne as a `reign of terror'. Brian Jones' biography of the emperor, the first ever in English, offers a more balanced interpretation of the life of Domitian, arguing that his foreign policy was realistic, his economic programme rigorously efficient and his supposed persecution of the early Christians non-existent. Central to an understanding of the emperor's policies, Brian Jones proposes, is his relationship with his court, rather than with the senate. Roamn historians will have to take account of this new biography which in part represents a rehabilitation of Domitian.
How to Be a Bad Emperor
Title | How to Be a Bad Emperor PDF eBook |
Author | Suetonius |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 2020-02-04 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0691200947 |
What would Caligula do? What the worst Roman emperors can teach us about how not to lead If recent history has taught us anything, it's that sometimes the best guide to leadership is the negative example. But that insight is hardly new. Nearly 2,000 years ago, Suetonius wrote Lives of the Caesars, perhaps the greatest negative leadership book of all time. He was ideally suited to write about terrible political leaders; after all, he was also the author of Famous Prostitutes and Words of Insult, both sadly lost. In How to Be a Bad Emperor, Josiah Osgood provides crisp new translations of Suetonius's briskly paced, darkly comic biographies of the Roman emperors Julius Caesar, Tiberius, Caligula, and Nero. Entertaining and shocking, the stories of these ancient anti-role models show how power inflames leaders' worst tendencies, causing almost incalculable damage. Complete with an introduction and the original Latin on facing pages, How to Be a Bad Emperor is both a gleeful romp through some of the nastiest bits of Roman history and a perceptive account of leadership gone monstrously awry. We meet Caesar, using his aunt's funeral to brag about his descent from gods and kings—and hiding his bald head with a comb-over and a laurel crown; Tiberius, neglecting public affairs in favor of wine, perverse sex, tortures, and executions; the insomniac sadist Caligula, flaunting his skill at cruel put-downs; and the matricide Nero, indulging his mania for public performance. In a world bristling with strongmen eager to cast themselves as the Caesars of our day, How to Be a Bad Emperor is a delightfully enlightening guide to the dangers of power without character.
Great Women of Imperial Rome
Title | Great Women of Imperial Rome PDF eBook |
Author | Jasper Burns |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 377 |
Release | 2006-11-22 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1134131852 |
A lively and engaging account of the leading ladies of imperial Rome from the foundation of the Empire to the third century AD (and a postscript on the fourth century). It is illustrated by 416 Coin Photographs as well as a dozen striking portraits by the author, and will thus be an indispensable resource for historians, art historians and numismatists in addition to its wider appeal.