A. Wallace-Hadrill: Suetonius | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9781853994517 | Suetonius | A. Wallace-Hadrill (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2013

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Beschreibung

Suetonius, a Roman historian, was the author of The Lives of the Caesars - one of the most vivid surviving documents of the early Roma empire. His biographies illuminate not only the political history of the twelve rulers from Julius Caesar to Domitian, but also the whole social and cultural world to which these Caesar's belonged. In the first major study of Suetonius in English, Andrew Wallace-Hadrill places the biographer in the context of tastes and intellectual currents of the early second century AD, and uses the portraits of earlier emperors to cast light on the values and ideology of the court of the emperors Trajan and Hadrian whom he served.

Thanks to Suetonius' attentions to the personal lives of the Caesar's, their tastes, sexual preferences, and superstitions, and his neglect of grand affairs of state and military narrative , he has been underrated as a serious historical source and compared unfavourably with his contemporary, the historian Tacitus. Wallace-Hadrill looks freshly at Suetonius in his own terms as a scholarly and antiquarian writer rather than a failed narrative historian. He shows how biographies reveal aspects of early imperial society and culture which Tacitus' narrative neglects, and how important he is as a source for the current generations of historians, interested as much in a society and culture as in politics and warfare.

Über den Autor

Andrew Wallace-Hadrill is Director of Research and Emeritus Professor of Roman Studies at the University of Cambridge, UK. He has been awarded an OBE for services to Anglo-Italian cultural relations and is 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).

Zusammenfassung

Illuminates not only the political history of the twelve rulers from Julius Caesar to Domitian, but also the whole social and cultural world to which these Caesar's belonged

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
PART ONE: THE AUTHOR
1. The Man and the Style
2. The Scholar and Society
3. The Scholarly Biographer
4. The Scholar at Court
PART TWO: THE SUBJECT
5. Emperors and Society
6. The Emperor's Job
7. Virtues and Vices
8. Emperors and Culture
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2013
Fachbereich:	Regionalgeschichte
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781853994517
ISBN-10:	1853994510
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Wallace-Hadrill, A. Wallace-Hadrill, Andrew
Hersteller:	Bloomsbury 3PL
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 13 mm
Von/Mit:	A. Wallace-Hadrill (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.04.2013
Gewicht:	0,34 kg