Tristan Power
Biographic Data
| ID | 5633900 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tristan Power |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tristan |
| FAMILY NAME | Power |
| SIGNATURE | POWER T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Reading |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Juvenal 5.104–106
The Text of Catullus 6,12–14
An Emendation to Pliny, Panegyric 95.4
This paper suggests a new emendation to the text of the final passage of Pliny's Panegyric , where a small lacuna has long been suspected after substiti
Claudius’ Homeric Quotation
Pliny, Letters 5.10 and the Literary Career of Suetonius
Galba and Priam in Tacitus’ Histories
Poetry and Fiction in Suetonius’ Illustrious Men
A Textual Note on Catullus 61.169
Collected Papers on Suetonius
This collection of essays by a leading authority on Suetonius, one of our most significant historical sources for the early Roman Empire, provides an in-depth examination of his works, whose literary value has in the past been overlooked. Although Suetonius is well known for his Lives of emperors such as Caligula and Nero, he is rarely studied in his own right, aside from grammatical or textual commentaries. This is the first volume by an expert …
Catullus 6.17
This article defends Baehrens’ reading cenam for caelum at Catullus 6.17 as more sensible than scholars have thought, based on allusions to Meleager, AP 5.175. It then proposes a new emendation to the line that is suggested by this Greek source
Poetry and fiction in Suetonius’ Illustrious Men
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Writing Biography in Greece and Rome
Ancient biography is now a well-established and popular field of study among classicists as well as many scholars of literature and history more generally. In particular biographies offer important insights into the dynamics underlying ancient performance of the self and social behaviour, issues currently of crucial importance in classical studies. They also raise complex issues of narrativity and fictionalization. This volume examines a range of…
Caligula and the Bludgeoned Priest
Suetonius’ Famous Courtesans
This chapter reconstructs the work attested by the sixth-century writer John Lydus as Suetonius’ Famous Courtesans, a title which has long been used as evidence for the biographer’s prurient interests. Misconceptions about the work are refuted first, followed by a survey of what is known about ancient courtesan literature in general. It is argued that the Famous Courtesans was not in fact a collection of biographies at all, but rather a scholarly…
Introduction
This introduction discusses the biographical form of Suetonius’ Lives of the Caesars, asking what defines a Suetonian biography. Two of its key features are identified: the consistent use of the third person and the division of material into thematic categories. Suetonius is seen as unique in these two regards, with the nearest parallel to the first being Augustus’ continuous use of the first person in the Res Gestae. The possibility that Suetoni…
The Endings of Suetonius’ Caesars
This chapter evaluates the final sections of Suetonius’ Caesars with regard to the notion of ‘closure’ in ancient biographical and historical texts. It is shown that Suetonius utilizes the endings of his individual Lives to solidify the entire collection, either alluding to earlier parts of the Caesars, or foreshadowing later biographies. These allusions reinforce the resolution of conflicts in the imperial Lives, rather than hinting at ways to r…
Suetonius the Biographer
The biographer Suetonius is one of the most fascinating writers of ancient Rome, but he is rarely afforded serious critical attention. This volume of new essays focuses on the various aspects of Suetonius' work, from his lost biographical writing on Roman courtesans to his imperial portraits of the Caesars
Juvenal, Satires 3.74 and Suetonius
The rhetorician Isaeus mentioned by Juvenal in Satires 3 was almost certainly not discussed by Suetonius, despite Giorgio Valla’s note to this passage, due to the temporal endpoint of the Illustrious Men . A similar error can be found in Valla’s use of Suetonius for Passienus Crispus on the authority of the same “Probus.” The Suetonian fragment on Isaeus should no longer be accepted as it stands. Suetonius probably instead discussed the fourth-ce…
Suetonius' Tacitus
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…
Pyrrhus and Priam in Suetonius' Tiberius
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Suetonius, De Grammaticis 13.1
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Pliny, Letters 5.10 and the Literary Career of Suetonius
This paper establishes a new date for the publication of Suetonius’ Illustrious Men through allusions to Suetonius’ Virgil in Pliny, Letters 5.10. These allusions are part of a much wider network of allusions, both within this particular letter and more generally in Pliny's Book 5, that revolves around the theme of unpublished writings. It is a partial or full publication of the Illustrious Men that probably led to Suetonius’ award of the ius tri…
Suetonius Galba 1
Priam and Pompey in Suetonius' Galba
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Pyrrhus and Priam in Suetonius' Tiberius
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Collected Papers on Suetonius
This collection of essays by a leading authority on Suetonius, one of our most significant historical sources for the early Roman Empire, provides an in-depth examination of his works, whose literary value has in the past been overlooked. Although Suetonius is well known for his Lives of emperors such as Caligula and Nero, he is rarely studied in his own right, aside from grammatical or textual commentaries. This is the first volume by an expert …
Caligula and the Bludgeoned Priest
Juvenal, Satires 3.74 and Suetonius
The rhetorician Isaeus mentioned by Juvenal in Satires 3 was almost certainly not discussed by Suetonius, despite Giorgio Valla’s note to this passage, due to the temporal endpoint of the Illustrious Men . A similar error can be found in Valla’s use of Suetonius for Passienus Crispus on the authority of the same “Probus.” The Suetonian fragment on Isaeus should no longer be accepted as it stands. Suetonius probably instead discussed the fourth-ce…
Suetonius' Tacitus
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…
Suetonius, De Grammaticis 13.1
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Suetonius Galba 1
Priam and Pompey in Suetonius' Galba
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Suetonius Galba 1
Pliny, Letters 5.10 and the Literary Career of Suetonius
This paper establishes a new date for the publication of Suetonius’ Illustrious Men through allusions to Suetonius’ Virgil in Pliny, Letters 5.10. These allusions are part of a much wider network of allusions, both within this particular letter and more generally in Pliny's Book 5, that revolves around the theme of unpublished writings. It is a partial or full publication of the Illustrious Men that probably led to Suetonius’ award of the ius tri…
Pyrrhus and Priam in Suetonius' Tiberius
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Suetonius, De Grammaticis 13.1
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Suetonius’ Famous Courtesans
This chapter reconstructs the work attested by the sixth-century writer John Lydus as Suetonius’ Famous Courtesans, a title which has long been used as evidence for the biographer’s prurient interests. Misconceptions about the work are refuted first, followed by a survey of what is known about ancient courtesan literature in general. It is argued that the Famous Courtesans was not in fact a collection of biographies at all, but rather a scholarly…
Introduction
This introduction discusses the biographical form of Suetonius’ Lives of the Caesars, asking what defines a Suetonian biography. Two of its key features are identified: the consistent use of the third person and the division of material into thematic categories. Suetonius is seen as unique in these two regards, with the nearest parallel to the first being Augustus’ continuous use of the first person in the Res Gestae. The possibility that Suetoni…
The Endings of Suetonius’ Caesars
This chapter evaluates the final sections of Suetonius’ Caesars with regard to the notion of ‘closure’ in ancient biographical and historical texts. It is shown that Suetonius utilizes the endings of his individual Lives to solidify the entire collection, either alluding to earlier parts of the Caesars, or foreshadowing later biographies. These allusions reinforce the resolution of conflicts in the imperial Lives, rather than hinting at ways to r…
Suetonius the Biographer
The biographer Suetonius is one of the most fascinating writers of ancient Rome, but he is rarely afforded serious critical attention. This volume of new essays focuses on the various aspects of Suetonius' work, from his lost biographical writing on Roman courtesans to his imperial portraits of the Caesars
Juvenal, Satires 3.74 and Suetonius
The rhetorician Isaeus mentioned by Juvenal in Satires 3 was almost certainly not discussed by Suetonius, despite Giorgio Valla’s note to this passage, due to the temporal endpoint of the Illustrious Men . A similar error can be found in Valla’s use of Suetonius for Passienus Crispus on the authority of the same “Probus.” The Suetonian fragment on Isaeus should no longer be accepted as it stands. Suetonius probably instead discussed the fourth-ce…
Suetonius' Tacitus
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…
Caligula and the Bludgeoned Priest
Poetry and fiction in Suetonius’ Illustrious Men
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Writing Biography in Greece and Rome
Ancient biography is now a well-established and popular field of study among classicists as well as many scholars of literature and history more generally. In particular biographies offer important insights into the dynamics underlying ancient performance of the self and social behaviour, issues currently of crucial importance in classical studies. They also raise complex issues of narrativity and fictionalization. This volume examines a range of…
Catullus 6.17
This article defends Baehrens’ reading cenam for caelum at Catullus 6.17 as more sensible than scholars have thought, based on allusions to Meleager, AP 5.175. It then proposes a new emendation to the line that is suggested by this Greek source
Claudius’ Homeric Quotation
Pliny, Letters 5.10 and the Literary Career of Suetonius
Galba and Priam in Tacitus’ Histories
Poetry and Fiction in Suetonius’ Illustrious Men
A Textual Note on Catullus 61.169
Collected Papers on Suetonius
This collection of essays by a leading authority on Suetonius, one of our most significant historical sources for the early Roman Empire, provides an in-depth examination of his works, whose literary value has in the past been overlooked. Although Suetonius is well known for his Lives of emperors such as Caligula and Nero, he is rarely studied in his own right, aside from grammatical or textual commentaries. This is the first volume by an expert …
The Text of Catullus 6,12–14
An Emendation to Pliny, Panegyric 95.4
This paper suggests a new emendation to the text of the final passage of Pliny's Panegyric , where a small lacuna has long been suspected after substiti
Juvenal 5.104–106
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