D. Wardle

Suetonius

Life of Augustus

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Suetonius' Life of Augustus is the most commonly read ancient account of the life of Rome's first emperor, presenting a mass of historical and biographical detail about both his public and personal lives. This volume provides the first large-scale commentary on Suetonius' work in English, drawing out what is unique about Suetonius' information, discussing how it relates to other ancient accounts, and assessing its historical reliability.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 616
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 922g
• ISBN-13: 9780199686469
• ISBN-10: 0199686467
• Artikelnr.: 42304624

Autorenporträt

D. Wardle is NKGV Professor of Classics at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables
Abbreviations
Introduction
Suetonius: Career and Literary Production
Suetonius' Place in the Development of Imperial Biography
The Structure of Augustus
Suetonius' Sources in Augustus
Reading Suetonius' Augustus
The Text and Translation
Translation
Commentary
Bibliography
Index