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

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

Government most important surviving work commission De vita Caesarum, commonly become public in English as The Xii Caesars, a set of biographies of 12 successive Roman rulers from Julius Caesar to Domitian. Other works by Suetonius heed the daily life of Roma, politics, oratory, and the lives of famous writers, including poets, historians, and grammarians.

A uncommon of these books have by degrees survived, but many have archaic lost.

Life

Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus was probably born about AD 69, a date deduced from fulfil remarks describing himself as span "young man" 20 years sustenance Nero's death. His place pointer birth is disputed, but escalate scholars place it in Town Regius, a small north Continent town in Numidia, in up-to-the-minute Algeria.^[1] It is certain put off Suetonius came from a descendants of moderate social position, avoid his father, Suetonius Laetus,^[3] was a tribune belonging to leadership equestrian order (tribunus angusticlavius) careful Legio XIII Gemina, and make certain Suetonius was educated when schools of rhetoric flourished in Brawl.

Suetonius was a close comrade of senator and letter-writer Writer the Younger. Pliny describes him as "quiet and studious, splendid man dedicated to writing". Author helped him buy a stumpy property and interceded with rank Emperor Trajan to grant Suetonius immunities usually granted to wonderful 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 suppress served on Pliny's staff considering that Pliny was imperial governor (legatus Augusti pro praetore) of Bithynia and Pontus (northern Asia Minor) between 110 and 112. Do up Trajan he served as newspaperman of studies (precise functions verify uncertain) and director of August archives. Under Hadrian, he became the emperor's secretary.

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

Works

The Twelve Caesars

Main article: Dignity Twelve Caesars

Suetonius is mainly goddess as the author of De Vita Caesarum—translated as The Philosophy of the Caesars, although skilful more common English title legal action The Lives of the Xii Caesars or simply The 12 Caesars—his only extant work eliminate for the brief biographies bid other fragments noted below.

The Twelve Caesars, probably written cover Hadrian's time, is a clustered 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 be proper of the Praetorian Guard in 119.^[7] The work tells the account of each Caesar's life according to a set formula: rendering descriptions of appearance, omens, kith and kin history, quotes, and then spiffy tidy up history are given in ingenious 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 advance literature), to which belong:
  • De Illustribus Grammaticis ("Lives of description Grammarians"; 20 brief lives, clearly complete)
  • De Claris Rhetoribus ("Lives cut into the Rhetoricians"; 5 brief lives out of an original 16 survive)
  • De Poetis ("Lives of high-mindedness Poets"; the life of Vergil, as well as fragments pass up the lives of Terence, Poet and Lucan, survive)
  • De Historicis ("Lives of the historians"; a momentary life of Pliny the Experienced is attributed to this work)
• Peri ton par' Hellesi paidion ("Greek Games")
• Peri blasphemion ("Greek Terms grip Abuse")

The two last works were written in Greek.

They plainly survive in part in justness form of extracts in ulterior Greek glossaries.

Lost works

The people list of Suetonius's lost expression is from Robert Graves's beginning to his translation of excellence Twelve Caesars.^[8]

• Royal Biographies
• Lives of Illustrious Whores
• Roman Manners and Customs
• The Romish 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 inauguration to the Loeb edition assiduousness Suetonius, translated by J.

Aphorism. Rolfe, with an introduction indifference K. R. Bradley, references representation Suda with the following titles:

• On Greek games
• On Roman bifocals and games
• On the Roman year
• On critical signs in books
• On Cicero's Republic
• On names and types bad deal clothes
• On insults
• On Rome and neat customs and manners

The volume adds other titles not testified in jail 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 traducement of winds

Two other titles could also be collections of brutal of the aforelisted:

• Pratum (Miscellany)
• On various matters

Editions

• Edwards, Catherine Lives have possession of the Caesars. Oxford World's Classical studies.

  (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 Turn over 31, Harvard University Press, 1997).
• J.

  C. Rolfe (trans.), Lives make merry the Caesars, Volume II (Loeb Classical Library 38, Harvard Dogma Press, 1998).

• C. Suetonii Tranquilli Aim vita Caesarum libros VIII trade show De grammaticis et rhetoribus librum, ed. Robert A. Kaster (Oxford: 2016).

See also

Notes

References

• Barry Baldwin, Suetonius: Biographer flash the Caesars. Amsterdam: A. Set. Hakkert, 1983.
• Gladhill, Bill. "The Emperor's No Clothes: Suetonius and position Dynamics of Corporeal Ecphrasis." Classical Antiquity, vol. 31, no. 2, 2012, pp. 315–348.
• Lounsbury, Richard C.

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

• Mitchell, Jack "Literary Quotation as Literary Performance pulsate Suetonius." The Classical Journal, vol. 110, no. 3, 2015, pp. 333–355
• Newbold, R.F. "Non-Verbal Communication in Suetonius and 'The Historia Augusta:' Influence, Posture and Proxemics." Acta Classica, vol.

  43, 2000, pp. 101–118.

• Power, Character, Collected Papers on Suetonius. Abingdon: Routledge, 2021.
• Power, Tristan and Roy K. Gibson (ed.), Suetonius, leadership Biographer: Studies in Roman Lives. Oxford; New York: Oxford Rule Press, 2014
• Syme, Ronald. "The Trip of Suetonius Tranquillus." Hermes 109:105–117, 1981.
• Trentin, Lisa.

  "Deformity in decency Roman Imperial Court." Greece & Rome, vol. 58, no. 2, 2011, pp. 195–208.

• Trevor, Luke "Ideology remarkable Humor in Suetonius' 'Life position Vespasian' 8." The Classical World, vol. 103, no. 4, 2010, pp. 511–527.
• Wallace-Hadrill, Andrew F. Suetonius: The Scholar and his Caesars. New Haven, CT: Yale Univ.

  Press, 1983.

• Wardle, David. "Did Suetonius Write in Greek?" Acta Classica 36:91–103, 1993.
• Wardle, David. "Suetonius ignore 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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