An Historical And Historiographical Commentary On Suetonius Life Of C Caligula

Author : Donna W. Hurley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Historical and Historiographical Commentary on Suetonius' Life of C. Caligula written by Donna W. Hurley and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of whether or not Caligula was as vile as Suetonius said, and a discussion of why the discrediting stories were told as they were. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : D. Wardle
Publisher : Peeters
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Suetonius' Life of Caligula written by D. Wardle and published by Peeters. This book was released on 1994 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Suetonius
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Suetonius: Caligula written by Suetonius and published by Bristol Classical Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of the Roman historian Suetonius' life of the notorious emperor Caligula includes an introduction giving historical background, the Latin text,and commentary/notes on the text.

Author : K. R. Bradley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Suetonius' Life of Nero written by K. R. Bradley and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Suetonius
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603846034
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Caesars written by Suetonius and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donna Hurley has done a sterling job in providing us with both an Introduction to Suetonius and a translation of The Caesars that we can confidently recommend to students. Her Introduction summarizes a complex topic succinctly and is informative without being overwhelming, set at an ideal level for the student and intelligent enthusiast. Her translation is accurate and contemporary. Her primary goal is faithfulness to the original, which she achieves, but at the same time she recognizes the need to make her text clear, entertaining, and comprehensible to the modern reader, and she strikes exactly the right balance. --Anthony Barrett, Emeritus, University of British Columbia

Author : Rose Mary Sheldon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538114895
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kill Caesar! written by Rose Mary Sheldon and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-06-14 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Why were Rome’s first emperors—the good, the bad, and the ugly—so vulnerable to conspiracies and assassination? . . . an expert analysis . . . compelling.” —Adrienne Mayor, author of The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates and Rome’s Deadliest Enemy Exploring the history of internal security under the first Roman dynasty, this groundbreaking book answers the enduring question: If there were 9,000 men guarding the emperor, how were three-quarters of Rome’s leaders assassinated? Rose Mary Sheldon traces the evolution of internal security mechanisms under the Julio-Claudians, evaluating the system that Augustus first developed to protect the imperial family and the stability of his dynasty. Yet in spite of the intensive precautions taken, there were multiple attempts on his life. Like all emperors, Augustus had a number of competing constituencies—the senate, the army, his extended family, the provincials, and the populace of Rome—but were they all equally threatening? Indeed, the biggest threat would come from those closest to the emperor—his family and the aristocracy. Even Roman imperial women were deeply involved in instigating regime change. By the fourth emperor, Caligula, the Praetorian Guards were already participating in assassinations, and the army too was becoming more politicized. Sheldon weighs the accuracy of ancient sources: Does the image of the emperor presented to us represent reality or what the people who killed him wanted us to think? Were Caligula and Nero really crazy, or did senatorial historians portray them that way to justify their murder? Was Claudius really the fool found drooling behind a curtain and made emperor, or was he in on the plot from the beginning? These and other fascinating questions are answered as Sheldon concludes that the repeated problem of “killing Caesar” reflected the empire’s larger dynamics and turmoil.

Author : Lee Fratantuono
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1526711222
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Caligula written by Lee Fratantuono and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2018-03-30 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new appraisal of the brief, turbulent reign of Gaius Caligula and his achievements as a military strategist. Gaius Caligula reigned for four short years, from 37 to 41 CE, before his infamous tenure came to a violent end. While much has been written about his notorious excesses and court life, relatively little of his military and foreign policy has been seriously studied. This military history of Rome during Caligula’s reign sheds light on that subject. After he grew up in a military camp, Caligula’s years as emperor came in the wake of the great consolidation of Tiberius’ gains in Germany and Pannonia, and in large part made possible the invasions of Gaul and Britain that were undertaken by his uncle and successor, Claudius. His expeditions in Gaul were part of a program of imitation of his storied predecessor, and crowning completion of what had been left undone in the relatively conservative military policy years of Augustus and Tiberius. Caligula: An Unexpected General offers a new appraisal of Caligula as a surprisingly competent military strategist, arguing that his achievements helped to secure Roman military power in Europe for a generation.

Author : Anthony A. Barrett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198854560
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Emperor Caligula in the Ancient Sources written by Anthony A. Barrett and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-27 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There can be few historical figures who have made such a powerful impact on the popular imagination as the Roman emperor Caligula (died AD 41). Yet an accurate reconstruction of his life and reign largely eludes us. This is paradoxical. The source material is plentiful, even lavish, by the standards of antiquity. The problem lies not so much in the quantity of evidence available, but in its quality. For our information we are obliged to draw on ancient accounts that can be colourful and wonderfully entertaining but have a flexible notion of historical truth and often seem to border on fiction. The consequence is that there is hardly a detail that the modern historian can present without deep reservations about its reliability. A biography of Caligula, in the regular modern sense of the word, is an insurmountable task, and can be at best be a summary personal interpretation by an individual historian of a mass of incoherent and often inconsistent material. Where does this leave the serious general reader? This book approaches Caligula from a quite different angle, by presenting the reader with the raw material of the ancient sources. It provides over 300 translated passages of texts, taken mainly from ancient writers, but also from coins and inscriptions. The translations are accompanied by extensive introductions and notes. These are tailored to the non-specialist, and intended to help such readers navigate material that is often contradictory, sometimes downright incredible, and helps to place events and institutions in their historical contexts. The colourful and exotic incidents are still here, but are presented in a context that will help the reader gain a more sophisticated understanding of how scholars try to reconstruct events of the past. This approach allows the reader to tackle head-on the stark reality that what we read in our sources is not necessarily the truth.

Author : Harlan Walker
Publisher : Oxford Symposium
ISBN 13 : 1903018161
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Food and the Memory written by Harlan Walker and published by Oxford Symposium. This book was released on 2001 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the eighteenth volume, 2001, of the series of papers and submissions to the Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery.

Author : Erich S. Gruen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110387190
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Construct of Identity in Hellenistic Judaism written by Erich S. Gruen and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book collects twenty two previously published essays and one new one by Erich S. Gruen who has written extensively on the literature and history of early Judaism and the experience of the Jews in the Greco-Roman world. His many articles on this subject have, however, appeared mostly in conference volumes and Festschriften, and have therefore not had wide circulation. By putting them together in a single work, this will bring the essays to the attention of a much broader scholarly readership and make them more readily available to students in the fields of ancient history and early Judaism. The pieces are quite varied, but develop a number of connected and related themes: Jewish identity in the pagan world, the literary representations by Jews and pagans of one another, the interconnections of Hellenism and Judaism, and the Jewish experience under Hellenistic monarchies and the Roman empire.