SUETONIUS

(Caius Suetonius Tranquillus)swētōˈnēəs, c.a.d. 69–c.a.d. 140, Roman biographer. Little is known about his life except that he was briefly the private secretary of Emperor Hadrian. His De vita Caesarum [concerning the lives of the Caesars] survives almost in full; it was translated into English by Robert Graves as The Twelve Caesars (1957). There are also fragments of a much larger collection of biographies, De viris illustribus [concerning illustrious men]. He gathered together all sorts of anecdotes, and the resultant biographies are lively and informative. Suetonius was taken as a model by many later biographers.

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Suetonius - Vol. 2
Book by J. C. Rolfe; Harvard University Press, 1997
Subjects: Authors, Latin--Biography, Emperors--Rome--Biography, Poets, Latin--Biography, Rome--History--Flavians, 69-96--Biography, Rome--History--The Five Julii, 30 B.C.-68 A.D--Biography, Suetonius--Ca. 69-Ca. 122--Translations Into English
him to Suetonius. A Life of Horace, which is found in...manuscripts, is not directly attributed to Suetonius, but is believed to be his because of...certain statements which are credited to Suetonius by the scholiasts. 1 A very fragmentary...
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Suetonius - Vol. 1
Book by J. C. Rolfe; Harvard University Press, 1997
Subjects: Authors, Latin--Biography, Emperors--Rome--Biography, Poets, Latin--Biography, Rome--History--Flavians, 69-96--Biography, Rome--History--The Five Julii, 30 B.C.-68 A.D--Biography, Suetonius--Ca. 69-Ca. 122--Translations Into English
THE LIFE AND WORKS OF SUETONIUS GAIUS SUETONIUS TRANQUILLUS is one of the numerous Roman writers who give...about themselves. He only tells us 1 that he was the son of Suetonius Laetus, a Roman knight, who took part in the battle of Betriacum...
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The Twelve Caesars
Book by Robert Graves, Suetonius; Penguin Books, 1957
Subjects: Emperors--Rome--Biography, Rome--History--Flavians, 69-96, Rome--History--The Five Julii, 30 B.C.-68 A.D
...much is known about the life of Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus. He was probably born in...Battle of Baetricum. From the letters of Suetonius's close friend Pliny the Younger we...and richest of all Latin histories. Suetonius was fortunate in having ready access...
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Nero
Book by Edward Champlin; Belknap Press, 2003
Subjects: Emperors--Rome--Biography, Nero--Emperor Of Rome--37-68, Rome--History--Nero, 54-68
...see Speidel 1994, 29. Rewards: Suetonius 30. 2. He met a gruesome end...36 (influenced by Commodus?); Suetonius 53. 104. Tacitus 14. 47; Dio 61. 17. I; Philostratus 4. 42; Suetonius 12. 3 (Neronia), 40. 4 (Naples...
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Ancient Astrology
Book by Tamsyn Barton; Routledge, 1994
Subjects: Astrology--History
...17.1-38. 16 Against Vatinius 14. 17 Suetonius, Augustus 94.5, Lucan, Civil War 1...52; Appian, Civil Wars 2.48; 641; Suetonius, Julius Caesar 81.2-4. 25 Suetonius, Julius Caesar 88; Servius, Commentary...
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Suetonius: the 'change' In, and the 'generosity' of Titus
Journal article by D. Wardle; Antichthon, Vol. 35, 2001
Suetonius: the change In, and the generosity...ProQuest: ... denotes formulae omitted Suetonius and Cassius Dio give assessments of the...sight at least, contradictory: for Suetonius he was natura benivolentissimus, but...
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Unimpeachable Sponsors of Imperial Autocracy, or Augustus' Dream Team (Suetonius Divus Augustus 94.8-9 and Dio Cassius 45.2.2-4) *
Journal article by D. Wardle; Antichthon, Vol. 39, 2005
Subjects: Dreams
...Autocracy, or Augustus Dream Team (Suetonius Divus Augustus 94.8-9 and Dio Cassius...omitted.) Of all the extant sources, Suetonius Life of Augustus contains the fullest...of the future Augustus greatness.1 Suetonius deploys the full range of divinatory...
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Matricide Revisited: Dramatic and Rhetorical Allusion in Tacitus, Suetonius and Cassius Dio
Journal article by Han Baltussen; Antichthon, Vol. 36, 2002
Subjects: Books, Historians
...and Rhetorical Allusion in Tacitus, Suetonius and Cassius Dio by Han Baltussen Introduction...sources of inspiration for Tacitus, Suetonius and Dio. 1 will do this by spelling...1206 ffi9 Tacitus (Ann. 14.8), Suetonius (Nero 34) and Cassius Dio (Roman History...
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Hamlet, Tiberius, and the Elephants' Graveyard
Journal article by Caroline Hunt; Shakespeare Bulletin, Vol. 23, 2005
Subjects: Drama--Criticism and interpretation, Plays--Criticism and interpretation, Shakespeare, William--Works
...act two, Hamlet refers to stories from Suetonius about tyrants, to a logic textbook...which the emperor Tiberius, according to Suetonius, tormented his grammarians:</p...in any of a number of sources besides Suetonius. Shakespeare refers to the Sirens in...
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Highways into Byways: the Travels of Tiberius
Journal article by Grant Parker; Antichthon, Vol. 43, 2009
Subjects: Islands, Roman civilization, Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar Augustus (42 BC-37 AD), Travel
...1. OUTLINE Together, Tacitus and Suetonius, supplemented by Cassius Dio and other...with it a truly Herculean itinerary. Suetonius tells of expeditions against the Cantabrians...BC all the more remarkable - an irony Suetonius marks with a rather pointed ablative...
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Rome's Dark Night of Tyranny: When the Republic Fell, Rome Entered the Dark Decline of Empire. Only after Centuries of Misery under Predominantly Tyrannical Emperors Did Rome Finally Meet Its End
Magazine article by Steve Bonta; The New American, Vol. 21, February 7, 2005
Subjects: Roman culture--Analysis, Roman culture--History
...Tiberius, if the frank testimony of Suetonius is to be believed, was a depraved monster...Roman history. A brief excerpt from Suetonius lengthy and horrifying description of...His erratic behavior suggests what Suetonius and others have concluded, that Caligula...
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For the Serious Student
Magazine article by Steve Bonta; The New American, Vol. 21, February 7, 2005
Subjects: Gibbon, Edward, Roman culture--History
...the first century A.D., Tacitus and Suetonius, both make grim if informative reading...edition. Tacitus scandalous counterpart, Suetonius, is not for all tastes. Where Tacitus...over the baser acts of his subjects, Suetonius unstintingly describes perversities that...
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Domitian and the Dynamics of Terror in Classical Rome
Magazine article by Peter Wiseman; History Today, Vol. 46, September 1996
Subjects: Despotism--Analysis, Domitian, Emperor of Rome--Evaluation, Roman emperors--Political activity, Roman law--Social aspects, Rome (Ancient)--Politics and government
...many years. Our third witness, C. Suetonius Tranquillus, was a diffident and scholarly...Though not a senator himself, Suetonius had been close to men who knew the facts...Domitian and the Senate with a reference to Suetonius list of eleven ex-consuls put to death...
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Toronto
Magazine article by Wayne Gooding, Geoff Chapman, Paula Citron, William Littler; Opera Canada, Vol. 51, Fall 2010
Subjects: Katz, Joel, Musical performances, Opera, Queen of Puddings Music Theatre, Royal Conservatory of Music-Toronto Ontario Canada, Strongman, Wayne, Tapestry New Opera Works, Toronto Ontario Canada
...one interesting change, introducing the Roman historian, Suetonius, as a grumpy character in a type of Greek chorus role who...commentary in English, as opposed to the sung Italian. (Suetonius was the chief source for the libretto by Metastasio.) His...
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American Caesars
Magazine article by Hugh Brogan; History Today, Vol. 60, October 2010
Subjects: American Caesars: Lives of the US Presidents from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush (Biography)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews
...excited. Hamiltons concern is to take the Twelve Caesars of C. Suetonius Tranquillus as a model for a book about 12 US presidents...would be the first to admit he is much more long-winded than Suetonius (the publisher made him cut his first draft by half) and...
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The Forgotten Battle; Answers to Correspondents
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), December 27, 2006
Subjects: Malalas, John
...chronological order, Caesar had dark eyes ( Suetonius, Divus Iulius 45); Augustus had fairish hair (Suetonius, Divus Augustus 79) and blue-grey...had fairish hair and grey-blue eyes (Suetonius, Nero 51); Galba had blue eyes ( Suetonius...
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PALACE OF DEPRAVITY; Perched 300ft Up on a Clifftop,it's the Most Stunning Home in the Med - and Now Roman Abramovich Wants to Buy it.But Does He Know What the Previous Owner Got Up To?
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), August 19, 2006
...unwilling they were. One historian, Suetonius, says: How grossly he was in the habit...bottom of the cliff by armed soldiers. Suetonius says: Among various forms of torture...widespread celebration in Rome. According to Suetonius: The people were so glad of his death...
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Wine, Women & Slaughter; Dormice for a Starter, an Orgy for Main Course -- and Christians Burned Alive as a Sideshow. as Nero's Roman Pleasure Palace Is Unearthed, What Really Went on at the Emperor's Toga Parties ..
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 15, 2009
...was described by the Roman historian Suetonius in the years following the emperors eventual...Then just 16, Nero was described by Suetonius as being of average height, with a prominent...never wore the same garment twice, wrote Suetonius. It is said that he never made a journey...
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Wine, Women & Slaughter; Dormice for a Starter, an Orgy for Main Course -- and Christians Burned Alive as a Sideshow. as Nero's Roman Pleasure Palace Is Unearthed, What Really Went on at the Emperor's Toga Parties .
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 2, 2009
...was described by the Roman historian Suetonius in the years following the emperors eventual...Then just 16, Nero was described by Suetonius as being of average height, with a prominent...never wore the same garment twice, wrote Suetonius. It is said that he never made a journey...
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Gofidio Fod Caer Segontium Yn Cael Ei Hanwybyddu
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), November 16, 2011
...trefn ar yr Ordoficiaid, wedir cwbl bu Suetonius Paulinus yma yn 60/61 i gael trefn...ddigwyddodd ir Derwyddon ar l ymosodiad Suetonius ym 60/61. Dim sn pellach amdanynt...Llannerchymedd, ond y tebygrwydd yw fod Suetonius wedi llwyddo iw lladd i gyd. Wedyn mae...
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encyclopedia articles on: Suetonius  - 8 results

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Suetonius
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SUETONIUS (Caius Suetonius Tranquillus)sweto ne s, c.a.d. 69 c.a.d. 140, Roman...anecdotes, and the resultant biographies are lively and informative. Suetonius was taken as a model by many later biographers...
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Suetonius Paulinus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SUETONIUS PAULINUS see Paulinus . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Paulinus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PAULINUS or Suetonius Paulinus (Caius Suetonius Paulinus)sweto ne s poli n s, d. after a.d. 69, Roman general. Under Claudius I he was stationed (a.d. 42) in Mauretania, and he advanced inland past the Atlas Mts. In a.d. 59 he...
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Rome , City, Italy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...ancient histories, that of Livy is the only comprehensive work. Other great Roman historians were Julius Caesar, Tacitus , Suetonius , Polybius , Dio Cassius , and Josephus . The works of Mommsen and Edward Gibbon are monumental. General works on ancient...
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Einhard
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Einhard wrote the Vita Karoli Magni ( Life of Charlemagne ), based on his 23 years of service with Charlemagne. Using Suetonius s word portrait of Augustus as his model, Einhard described all aspects of Charlemagnes appearance and activities. Other...
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