SUETONIUS The Scholar and His Caesars Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Duckworth, 1983

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Details

Year of publication

1983

Place of printing

London

Author

Wallace-Hadrill, Andrew

Publishers

Duckworth

Keyword

Roman History Suetonius Latin Literature Biographies & Memoirs

Cover description

Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Binding description

Hardcover ISBN 0715617478

Description

Some pencil marginalia (mostly checkmarks) , especially to first 60pp, ink smudge in margin of 2 pages. Very light bump to 1 corner. ; Ix, 216pp. ; 216 pages; Suetonius, 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 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