Introduction: The Originality of Suetonius

Power, Tristan

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“…31 In the scheme of the Lives , Augustus is the antithesis of his predecessor Julius in the sense that he is ‘the standard for his successors’ and the positive ‘point of reference’ (Edwards 2000: xix). Power (2014: 16) frames ‘the Julius–Augustus pairing as revealing a combined model on which the later biographies draw, with the dialogue between them providing an ideal of different conduct to follow, both exemplary and cautionary’. Julius both was and was not a Caesar, in the sense that he is the ‘ﬁrst of two poles: not Iul.…”

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‘Doing Evil’ as Maiestas in John 18.30

Wassell

2020

Journal for the Study of the New Testament

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The argument of this article is that in Jn 18.30 Jesus is accused of ‘doing evil’ to Caesar – or maiestas. Johannine critics sometimes mention maiestas, but they have neither introduced the ancient and modern literature on the topic nor applied it to the interpretation of the accusation against Jesus in John’s gospel. Horace, Velleius Paterculus, the senatus consultum de Cn. Pisone patre and Suetonius, as well as various treaties and edicts, demonstrate the transference of maiestas from Rome to Caesar. So instead of slandering the people, the crime of maiestas became slandering the emperor. If an author such as Josephus seems, in his own way, to intimate the crime, then so also may John. And if ‘doing evil’ means maiestas, then Jn 18.30 ﬁts more comfortably not only with the wider ﬁrst century, but also the wider Johannine narrative.

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“… 34. See Power 2014: 1-18 on the originality of Suetonius as a scholarly biographer (not historiographer) in his third-person narration and thematic divisions. …”

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2020

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“…Hurley 2011: xix–xx. For a better explanation of Suetonius’ biographical form, see Power, 2014c: 4–14; and of the biographer's concentration on this period, including his naming of sources, Power 2010: 160–1; cf. Fantham 2013b: 189.…”

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“…Against the view of Suetonius as a ‘tabloid Tacitus’, see Sharrock and Ash 2002: 365. On biography's proximity to, and distinctions from, history in antiquity, see Power 2014c: 1–3, 13.…”

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Suetonius' Tacitus

Power¹

2014

J. Rom. Stud.

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This article discusses the relationship of Tacitus to his younger contemporary Suetonius, challenging the view that Suetonius wrote a ‘supplement’ to the historian. Scholarly focus on this pair has led to the widespread belief that Suetonius had read Tacitus’ Annals, which is unsupported by the evidence. The prevailing consensus that the biographer may at times be subtly criticizing the historian persists in commentaries on Suetonius’ Caesars. It is argued that where their two accounts appear to meet, Suetonius is better seen as responding to the earlier common source or sources, or distinguishing himself from the conventions of historiography at large.

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Biography as Censure: Suetonius and Procopius

Fraser

2020

Palgrave Studies in Life Writing

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Introduction: The Originality of Suetonius

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‘Doing Evil’ as Maiestas in John 18.30

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Biography as Censure: Suetonius and Procopius

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