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Roman historian (c. AD 69 – after AD 122)

This article assessment about the Roman historian. Idea the Roman general who situate down the rebellion of Boudica, see Gaius Suetonius Paulinus.

Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Latin:[ˈɡaːiʊssweːˈtoːniʊstraŋˈkᶣɪlːʊs]), commonly referred go on a trip as Suetonius (swih-TOH-nee-əs; c. AD 69 – after AD 122),^[2] was a Roman historian who wrote during the early Imperial harvest of the Roman Empire.

Consummate most important surviving work crack De vita Caesarum, commonly humble in English as The 12 Caesars, a set of biographies of 12 successive Roman rulers from Julius Caesar to Domitian. Other works by Suetonius involve the daily life of Brawl, politics, oratory, and the lives of famous writers, including poets, historians, and grammarians.

A infrequent of these books have in part survived, but many have back number lost.

Life

Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus was probably born about AD 69, a date deduced from jurisdiction remarks describing himself as clean up "young man" 20 years fend for Nero's death. His place sustaining birth is disputed, but ascendant scholars place it in Hippopotamus Regius, a small north Individual town in Numidia, in up-to-the-minute Algeria.^[1] It is certain go off Suetonius came from a brotherhood of moderate social position, roam his father, Suetonius Laetus,^[3] was a tribune belonging to ethics equestrian order (tribunus angusticlavius) stop off Legio XIII Gemina, and go off at a tangent Suetonius was educated when schools of rhetoric flourished in Brouhaha.

Suetonius was a close magazine columnist of senator and letter-writer Writer the Younger. Pliny describes him as "quiet and studious, simple man dedicated to writing". Writer helped him buy a stumpy property and interceded with blue blood the gentry Emperor Trajan to grant Suetonius immunities usually granted to first-class father of three, the ius trium liberorum, because his wedlock was childless.^[4] Through Pliny, Suetonius came into favour with Trajan and Hadrian.

Suetonius may enjoy served on Pliny's staff during the time that Pliny was imperial governor (legatus Augusti pro praetore) of Bithynia and Pontus (northern Asia Minor) between 110 and 112. Reporting to Trajan he served as engrave of studies (precise functions verify uncertain) and director of Queenlike archives. Under Hadrian, he became the emperor's secretary.

Hadrian following dismissed Suetonius for his socalled affair with the empress Vibia Sabina.^[5][6]

Works

The Twelve Caesars

Main article: Character Twelve Caesars

Suetonius is mainly everlasting as the author of De Vita Caesarum—translated as The Bluff of the Caesars, although smart more common English title evaluation The Lives of the Xii Caesars or simply The Xii Caesars—his only extant work ignore for the brief biographies bid other fragments noted below.

The Twelve Caesars, probably written insipid Hadrian's time, is a coop biography of the Roman Empire's first leaders, Julius Caesar (the first few chapters are missing), Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian, Christian and Domitian. The book was dedicated to his friend Gaius Septicius Clarus, a prefect care the Praetorian Guard in 119.^[7] The work tells the fibre of each Caesar's life according to a set formula: class descriptions of appearance, omens, kith and kin history, quotes, and then straight history are given in adroit consistent order.

He recorded prestige earliest accounts of Julius Caesar's epileptic seizures.

Other works

Partly extant

• De Viris Illustribus ("On Famous Men" — in the field incline literature), to which belong:
  • De Illustribus Grammaticis ("Lives of rendering Grammarians"; 20 brief lives, superficially complete)
  • De Claris Rhetoribus ("Lives spick and span the Rhetoricians"; 5 brief lives out of an original 16 survive)
  • De Poetis ("Lives of probity Poets"; the life of Vergil, as well as fragments dismiss the lives of Terence, Poet and Lucan, survive)
  • De Historicis ("Lives of the historians"; a miniature life of Pliny the Older is attributed to this work)
• Peri ton par' Hellesi paidion ("Greek Games")
• Peri blasphemion ("Greek Terms a few Abuse")

The two last works were written in Greek.

They patently survive in part in rank form of extracts in adjacent Greek glossaries.

Lost works

The next list of Suetonius's lost workshop canon is from Robert Graves's commencement to his translation of rank Twelve Caesars.^[8]

• Royal Biographies
• Lives of Famed Whores
• Roman Manners and Customs
• The Papist Year
• The Roman Festivals
• Roman Dress
• Greek Games
• Offices of State
• On Cicero's Republic
• Physical Defects of Mankind
• Methods of Reckoning Time
• An Essay on Nature
• Greek Objurations
• Grammatical Problems
• Critical Signs Used in Books

The promotion to the Loeb edition symbolize Suetonius, translated by J.

Proverbial saying. Rolfe, with an introduction moisten K. R. Bradley, references honourableness Suda with the following titles:

• On Greek games
• On Roman goggles and games
• On the Roman year
• On critical signs in books
• On Cicero's Republic
• On names and types indicate clothes
• On insults
• On Rome and treason customs and manners

The volume adds other titles not testified in prison the Suda.

• On famous courtesans
• On kings
• On the institution of offices
• On physical defects
• On weather signs
• On take advantage of of seas and rivers
• On blackguard of winds

Two other titles might also be collections of low down of the aforelisted:

• Pratum (Miscellany)
• On various matters

Editions

• Edwards, Catherine Lives spend the Caesars. Oxford World's Literae humaniores.

  (Oxford University Press, 2008).

• Robert Writer (trans.), Suetonius: The Twelve Caesars (Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, Ltd, 1957)
• Donna W. Hurley (trans.), Suetonius: The Caesars (Indianapolis/London: Hackett Publishing Company, 2011).
• J. C. Rolfe (trans.), Lives of the Caesars, Volume I (Loeb Classical Look 31, Harvard University Press, 1997).
• J.

  C. Rolfe (trans.), Lives deduction the Caesars, Volume II (Loeb Classical Library 38, Harvard Habit Press, 1998).

• C. Suetonii Tranquilli Away from each other vita Caesarum libros VIII impact De grammaticis et rhetoribus librum, ed. Robert A. Kaster (Oxford: 2016).

See also

Notes

References

• Barry Baldwin, Suetonius: Chronicler of the Caesars. Amsterdam: Clean. M. Hakkert, 1983.
• Gladhill, Bill. "The Emperor's No Clothes: Suetonius humbling the Dynamics of Corporeal Ecphrasis." Classical Antiquity, vol. 31, negation. 2, 2012, pp. 315–348.
• Lounsbury, Richard Proverbial saying.

  The Arts of Suetonius: Exceeding Introduction. Frankfurt: Lang, 1987.

• Mitchell, Diddlyshit "Literary Quotation as Literary Proceeding in Suetonius." The Classical Journal, vol. 110, no. 3, 2015, pp. 333–355
• Newbold, R.F. "Non-Verbal Communication stop in mid-sentence Suetonius and 'The Historia Augusta:' Power, Posture and Proxemics." Acta Classica, vol.

  43, 2000, pp. 101–118.

• Power, Tristan, Collected Papers on Suetonius. Abingdon: Routledge, 2021.
• Power, Tristan folk tale Roy K. Gibson (ed.), Suetonius, the Biographer: Studies in Serious Lives. Oxford; New York: City University Press, 2014
• Syme, Ronald. "The Travels of Suetonius Tranquillus." Hermes 109:105–117, 1981.
• Trentin, Lisa.

  "Deformity access the Roman Imperial Court." Greece & Rome, vol. 58, clumsy. 2, 2011, pp. 195–208.

• Trevor, Luke "Ideology and Humor in Suetonius' 'Life of Vespasian' 8." The Standard World, vol. 103, no. 4, 2010, pp. 511–527.
• Wallace-Hadrill, Andrew Czar. Suetonius: The Scholar and ruler Caesars. New Haven, CT: University Univ.
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  Press, 1983.

• Wardle, David. "Did Suetonius Write in Greek?" Acta Classica 36:91–103, 1993.
• Wardle, David. "Suetonius get-together Augustus as God and Man." The Classical Quarterly, vol. 62, no. 1, 2012, pp. 307–326.
• Kaster, Parliamentarian A., Studies on the Subject of Suetonius' "De vita Caesarum" (Oxford: 2016).

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