Description
Seutonius, a Roman historian, was the author of "The Lives of the Caesars". This biography sets the historian's career and his method of dealing with his subject matter in the context of Roman society in the early Empire, and draws a picture of the coherence of Suetonius's life, appointments, scholarship and literary activities. Seutonius is presented as a man of learning, rather than as a failed narrative historian. This portrait takes account of recent evidence concerning his life and seeks to clarify the character of "The Lives of the Caesars" as a description of emperors and Roman imperial society by a scholarly biographer who himself was in the service of a scholarly Caesar - the Emperor Hadrian.
The first major study of Suetonius in English, uses the portraits of earlier emperors to cast light on the values and ideology of the court of the emperors Trajan and Hadrian
About the Author
Andrew Wallace-Hadrill was Director of the British School at Rome between 1995 and 2009, and then Professor of Roman Studies, and Master of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. He has been awarded an OBE for services to Anglo-Italian cultural relations, and elected a Fellow of the British Academy. His publications include Suetonius: the scholar and his Caesars (1983) and Suetonius (1995), both available from Bloomsbury; and more recently Rome's Cultural Revolution (2008) and Herculaneum: Past and Future (2011).
Reviews
His book is an important contribution to the social history of the Roman elite in general as well as to Suetonian studies in particular. An integrated portrait of Suetonius and his age emerges, one that is compelling and imaginative. -- Classical Philology
This is an excellent treatment of a much misunderstood author, written with equal expertise in literature and in social history. -- Times Literary Supplement
Wallace-Hadrill's refreshing approach to Suetonius is one that no social, or other historian of the Roman Empire can afford to ignore. -- Classical World
Book Information
ISBN 9781853994517
Author Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
Format Paperback
Page Count 228
Imprint Bristol Classical Press
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 346g
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 137mm * 13mm
The first major study of Suetonius in English, uses the portraits of earlier emperors to cast light on the values and ideology of the court of the emperors Trajan and Hadrian
About the Author
Andrew Wallace-Hadrill was Director of the British School at Rome between 1995 and 2009, and then Professor of Roman Studies, and Master of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. He has been awarded an OBE for services to Anglo-Italian cultural relations, and elected a Fellow of the British Academy. His publications include Suetonius: the scholar and his Caesars (1983) and Suetonius (1995), both available from Bloomsbury; and more recently Rome's Cultural Revolution (2008) and Herculaneum: Past and Future (2011).
Reviews
His book is an important contribution to the social history of the Roman elite in general as well as to Suetonian studies in particular. An integrated portrait of Suetonius and his age emerges, one that is compelling and imaginative. -- Classical Philology
This is an excellent treatment of a much misunderstood author, written with equal expertise in literature and in social history. -- Times Literary Supplement
Wallace-Hadrill's refreshing approach to Suetonius is one that no social, or other historian of the Roman Empire can afford to ignore. -- Classical World
Book Information
ISBN 9781853994517
Author Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
Format Paperback
Page Count 228
Imprint Bristol Classical Press
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 346g
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 137mm * 13mm
