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Tiberius on Capri and the Limits of Roman Sex Culture
Eugesta, 2018 This paper examines Suetonius’ representation of Tiberius and sex on Capri at Vita Tiberii 43-44. Many of the features of Suetonius’ narrative move through normative elements of Roman sex culture: brothels and prostitutes, sex manuals, erotic ...
Bill Gladhill
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La sangre en las Etimologías de Isidoro de Sevilla
Pallas, 2020 Commentary on the main passages of the fourth and eleventh books of the Etymologies of Isidore of Seville on blood in relation to Medicine. These passages deal with issues such as the etymology of sanguis, sanitas and sanies, the differences between ...
Joaquín Pascual-Barea
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Cajus Suetonius Tranquillus [PDF]
CAJUS SUETONIUS TRANQUILLUS Cajus Suetonius Tranquillus Cajus Suetonius Tranquillus (Erster Band) ( - ) Cajus Suetonius Tranquillus (Zweiter Band) ([1]
Ostertag, Johann Philipp +1 more
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La finzione del "re" da Ciro il Grande (Erodoto) a Nerone (Svetonio, Tacito)
Mantichora, 2020 Greek and Roman sources depict an ancient children´s game, wherein one was chosen by drawing lots as king (basileus) and his playmates were appointed as servants or soldiers and were obliged to obey him. Herodotus already accounts a story about this game
Salvatore Costanza
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Citizens Caesar : the emperors and control in Suetonius' Caesares [PDF]
, 2008 textThis dissertation consists of four chapters in which I consider the question of what the emperors can control, in Suetonius’ Caesares. The first chapter sets up the question of the emperors’ control with an examination of the genealogies with which
Kim, Raymond John
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Collectanea Philologica, 2020 The aim of the article is an attempt to present a dichotomic image of the Roman ruler. It is concentrated on traditional features, understood as postulated in relation to person in power, such as justice, honesty, modesty and self-control.
Edyta Gryksa
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Agrippina as prima donna: The reception of Agrippina, mother of Nero, in Handel’s opera Agrippina
In die Skriflig, 2019 This article examines the way in which Agrippina, the mother of the emperor Nero, is depicted in Handel’s opera Agrippina. The opera’s libretto, written by Cardinal Vincenzo Grimani, draws upon the historical information in Suetonius’ biography of ...
Betine van Zyl Smit
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Boletín Médico del Hospital Infantil de México, 2023 When humans discovered agriculture and livestock, they ceased to be nomads and began to settle in towns until they created large cities. From the first human settlements in Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Anatolian Peninsula, populations were exposed and ...
Óscar F. Chacón-Camacho +3 more
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Religion in Suetonius’ Life of Augustus [PDF]
, 2015 Suetonius describes the lives of Caesars according to categories such as antecedents, birth, career, achievements, morals, religion, appareance, and death. In my paper I examine the function of religion in The Deified Augustus of Suetonius.
Tamás Adamik, Adamik, Tamás
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Einhard’s Vita Karoli Magni: Dialogue with Classical Genre
СибСкриптVita Karoli Magni (The Life of Charlemagne) was the first medieval biography. It was written by Einhard, a prominent figure of the Carolingian era, who used some biographies of Roman emperors by Suetonius.
Maria R. Nenarokova
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