Suetonius: Life of Julius Caesar Translated With Introduction and Historical Commentary

Informationen zum Autor D. Wardle is Professor of Classics at the University of Cape Town, where he holds the King George V Chair. He has written extensively in the history and historiography of the early Roman principate, particularly on Valerius Maximus and Suetonius, but also has an interest in Roman divination. Klappentext D. Wardle provides the only translation and detailed commentary on Suetonius' biography of Caesar that is fully accessible to readers without Latin or Greek, enabling them to appreciate a detail-packed picture of one of the most controversial Romans, not only his political and military achievements, but also the darker aspects of his reputation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface List of maps and tables Abbreviations INTRODUCTION 1: Suetonius' Divus Iulius in the Development of Imperial Biography 2: The Structure of Divus Iulius 3: Caesar Speaks: Suetonian Ventriloquism 4: Suetonius' Sources for Divus Iulius 5: Reading Suetonius' Divus Iulius 6: The Text and Translation TRANSLATION COMMENTARY General index

Product details

• Authors: Wardle D., D. (King George V Professor Wardle
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 22.08.2025
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature
• EAN: 9780198942900
• ISBN: 978-0-19-894290-0
• Pages: 544
• Series: Clarendon Ancient History Series
• Subjects: HISTORY / Ancient / General, HISTORY / Historiography, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Classical texts, Historiography, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Biography: historical, political and military, Ancient, classical and medieval texts