Suetonius © Suetonius was the Roman governor of Britain who defeated Boudicca's rebellion. Little is known of Gaius Suetonius Paulinus's early life. The earliest ...
ADVISORY: This essay contains violent and sexual content that some readers may find offensive. Dirt for days. Around-the-clock degradation. Scandal too good to be true. Is this the latest from a ...
Caillan Davenport receives funding from the Australian Research Council. In a memorable scene from the classic BBC TV series I, Claudius (1976), three frightened senators are summoned to the palace in ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Julius Caesar hustled for a succession of public offices during his rise to power because he needed to secure ...
In spite of the developments in Suetonian studies since W. Steidle’s ‘rehabilitation’ of Suetonius in 1951, the last international conference on this author was held in 2008 (‟Suetonius the biographer ...
A review of How to Be A Bad Emperor by Suetonius, selected and translated by Josiah Osgood. Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus wrote around 120 A.D., more than one hundred years after the establishment of ...
The classical historians of Greece and Rome are all fascinating — and distinct — as writers. There is Thucydides, who is terse and direct and strictly factual. He is not at ease with events where ...
Charlemagne and The Sopranos, Trump and I, Claudius – all owe a debt to the imperial biographies of Suetonius. By Tom Holland Some time in the early ninth century AD, a Frankish scholar named Einhard ...
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