A01=Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
Author_Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
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Product details
- ISBN 9781853994517
- Weight: 346g
- Dimensions: 148 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jan 1998
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Seutonius, 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 recent 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 - the Emperor Hadrian.
Andrew Wallace-Hadrill was Director of the British School at Rome between 1995 and 2009, and then Professor of Roman Studies, and Master of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. He has been awarded an OBE for services to Anglo-Italian cultural relations, and elected a Fellow of the British Academy. His publications include Suetonius: the scholar and his Caesars (1983) and Suetonius (1995), both available from Bloomsbury; and more recently Rome's Cultural Revolution (2008) and Herculaneum: Past and Future (2011).
