Suetonius, the scholar and his Caesars

Description:

Looks at the "Lives of the Caesars" as a document of the culture and attitudes of the early empire. Suetonius is placed in his true literary context as a man of learning rather than a failed narrative historian; and emperors and imperial society are seen through the eyes of a scholarly biographer who himself served a scholarly Caesar, the Emperor Hadrian.

subjects: Biography,  Emperors,  Historians,  Historiography,  History and criticism,  Keizers,  Biographies,  Histoire,  Empereurs,  Historiens,  Biographes,  Suetonius, approximately 69-approximately 122,  Criticism and interpretation

People: Suetonius (ca. 69-ca. 122)

Places: Rome