Another Look at Suetonius’ Titus

Tatum, W. Jeffrey

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“…2.2-4 link Titus with Julius Caesar as a more problematic role model in order 'to "correct" the Flavian emphasis on the Augustan precedent'. 34 On the implicit and explicit comparisons of Titus with Augustus in Suetonius and Cassius Dio, see Tatum (2014), who shows that Suetonius' judgement of Titus is more favourable than Dio's.…”

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Flavian Responses to Nero's Rome

2022

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This chapter considers the issue of continuity and rupture between Neronian and Flavian policies in light of Vespasian's efforts to revive official cult honours for the deified Claudius. Re-examination of the evidence for the status of Divus Claudius during the reign of Nero suggests that the most salient feature of Claudius' divinity was the glory it conferred upon his successor's patriline. Accounts that stress the Flavians' rejection of Neronian precedents thus fail to offer adequate justification for the renewed emphasis that Claudius' cult received under Vespasian. A better explanation can be found in the ideological importance of the imperial cult itself, as the new dynasty sought to build on the example of Divus Claudius as a precedent for its own claims to charismatic authority.

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“…andTatarkiewicz (2012). 29 On the characteristics of Suetonius' Life of Titus compared to other Lives and the accounts of Tacitus and Cassius Dio, seeTatum (2014).…”

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Flavian Responses to Nero's Rome

Heerink¹,

Meijer²

2022

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In this interdisciplinary volume, a team of classicists, historians, and archaeologists examines how the memory of the infamous emperor Nero was negotiated in different contexts and by different people during the ensuing Flavian age of imperial Rome. The contributions show different Flavian responses to Nero’s complicated legacy: while some aspects of his memory were reinforced, others were erased. Emphasizing the constant and diverse nature of this negotiation, this book proposes a nuanced interpretation of both the Flavian age itself and its relation to Nero’s Rome. By combining the study of these strategies with architectural approaches, archaeology, and memory studies, this volume offers a multifaceted picture of Roman civilization at a crucial turning point, and as such will have something to offer anyone interested in classics, (ancient) history, and archaeology.

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“…6.Authors who have already observed the importance of structure in Suetonius and in particular the rubric method include Townend (1967); Lewis (1991); Hurley (2014); Tatum (2014). The importance of reading more than the one sentence in Valerius Maximus has been recently argued by Lawrence (2015).…”

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STRUCTURE AND PERSUASION IN SUETONIUS’DE VITA CAESARVM

Garrett

2018

Ramus

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At the sentence level Suetonius often appears to be neutral, but I argue here that the persuasive force in the arrangement of his material creates a portrait that is absolutely not neutral. As David Wardle put it in a 2016 review, ‘Anyone who reads Suetonius without regard to the careful structures within which the biographer places his material can produce almost any picture.’ Yet these ‘careful structures’ are a mystery known only to the initiated. This paper lays out the complex and varied ways in which Suetonius uses structure, specifically the ‘rubric system’ of arranging his material under subheadings and those subheadings in sequences, in the hope that with this knowledge we see more accurately what ‘picture’ the biographer creates.

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Another Look at Suetonius’ Titus

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Flavian Responses to Nero's Rome

Flavian Responses to Nero's Rome

Flavian Responses to Nero's Rome

STRUCTURE AND PERSUASION IN SUETONIUS’DE VITA CAESARVM

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