Suetonius : life of Augustus = vita divi Augusti / translated with introduction and historical commentary by D. Wardle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wardle, D., author.

Series:

Clarendon ancient history series

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Suetonius, approximately 69-approximately 122. Divus Augustus.

Suetonius.

Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 63 B.C.-14 A.D.

Augustus.

Emperors--Rome--Biography--History and criticism.

Emperors.

Divus Augustus (Suetonius).

Emperors--Biography.

Rome (Empire).

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

x, 603 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Summary:

Suetonius' Life of Augustus is the most commonly read ancient account of the life of Rome's first emperor, presenting a mass of historical and biographical detail about both his public and personal lives. This volume provides the first large-scale commentary on Suetonius' work in English, drawing out what is unique about Suetonius' information, discussing how it relates to other ancient accounts, and assessing its historical reliability. The commentary is the first to be accessible to readers without any knowledge of Latin or Greek due to its use of English lemmata, while the new translation remains faithful to the original Latin. Accompanied by an introduction which investigates the career of Suetonius, the date of the Lives of the Caesars, the structure of the Life of Augustus, the various sources utilized by Suetonius, and the way in which the reader should approach this complex text, the commentary also looks to examine Suetonius' work not just as a repository of facts, but as a literary artefact carefully constructed by its author. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Suetonius: Career and Literary Production 1

2 Suetonius' Place in the Development of Imperial Biography 6

3 The Structure of Augustus 9

4 Suetonius' Sources in Augustus 18

5 Reading Suetonius' Augustus 28

6 The Text and Translation 40.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (unnumbered page 567-page 591) and index.

ISBN:

9780199686452

0199686459

OCLC:

898058384