Description:
Suetonius, a Roman historian, was the author of "The Lives of the Caesars". This biography sets the historian's career and his method of dealing with his subject matter in the context of Roman society in the early Empire, and draws a picture of the coherence of Suetonius's life.
Brief description: Andrew Wallace-Hadrill is Director of Research and Emeritus Professor of Roman Studies at the University of Cambridge, UK. He has been awarded an OBE for services to Anglo-Italian cultural relations and is a Fellow of the British Academy. His publications include Suetonius: The Scholar and his Caesars (1983) and Suetonius (1995), both available from Bloomsbury; and more recently Rome's Cultural Revolution (2008) and Herculaneum: Past and Future (2011).
Review Quotes:
"His book is an important contribution to the social history of the Roman elite in general as well as to Suetonian studies in particular. An integrated portrait of Suetonius and his age emerges, one that is compelling and imaginative." --Classical Philology
"This is an excellent treatment of a much misunderstood author, written with equal expertise in literature and in social history." --Times Literary Supplement "Wallace-Hadrill's refreshing approach to Suetonius is one that no social, or other historian of the Roman Empire can afford to ignore." --Classical World