Biographie und Bildungskultur

Suetonius' Tacitus

“…Nerva at Dom . 1.1), which cannot be used to support the kind of oblique dialogue suggested by scholars: Syme 1958: 490; 1980: 128 = 1984: 1274; 1981: 117 = 1984: 1348; Townend 1959: 290–3; 1967: 90; 1982b: 1055–6; Carney 1968; Bowersock 1969; Cizek 1977: 181–92; Abramenko 1994; Pausch 2004: 258, n. 142; Vout 2007: 138–40; Charles and Anagnostou-Laoutides 2010: 184–6; Rowland 2010; and more tentatively, Wallace-Hadrill 1983: 6, 198–200; contra , see Bradley 1976; 1991: 3723; Baldwin 1983: 13–14, 278; Gascou 1984: 758–73; Lindsay 1993: 18; Wardle 1994: 338; 1998: 434–6; Chong-Gossard 2010: 304–6, 315–21. For a similar argument about Plutarch and Trajan, see Pelling 2002a: 253–66 = 2002b.…”

“… 16 Wallace-Hadrill 1983: 9–10; cf. Goodyear 1982: 663: ‘he never attempted to vie with writers of major history’; also Hurley 1989: 325; 2001: 8–9; Edwards 2000: xiii–xv; Pausch 2004: 271–3; Ash 2007: 30, n. 84; Konstan and Walsh forthcoming. A similar contrast with biography too in Suetonius is implied by Konstan 2009: 459, who draws partly on Wallace-Hadrill's argument, which concludes that Suetonius is ultimately ‘ sui generis ’; see especially Wallace-Hadrill 1983: 66–72 (quotation at 72).…”

Minerva on the Surrey Downs: Reading Pliny (And Horace) With John Toland

“… 63 Toland excludes most of Pliny's ‘portrait’ and descriptive recommendation letters, but he can hardly have failed to notice them. On the Epistles as portraiture see Leach (1990), Henderson (2002) and Pausch (2004) 51–146. …”