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Suetonius painted Claudius as a ridiculous figure, belittling many of his acts and attributing the objectively good works to his retinue.
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Suetonius and Claudius
* Suetonius, De vita Caesarum – Claudius v. 44 and Nero vi. 5. 3, 28. 2, 34. 1 – 4
Suetonius states that a total of 35 senators and 300 knights were executed for offenses during Claudius ' reign.
According to Suetonius, Claudius was extraordinarily fond of games.
Suetonius and the other ancient authors used this against Claudius.
The historian Suetonius describes the physical manifestations of Claudius ' affliction in relatively good detail.
The Stoic Seneca states in his Apocolocyntosis that Claudius ' voice belonged to no land animal, and that his hands were weak as well ; however, he showed no physical deformity, as Suetonius notes that when calm and seated he was a tall, well-built figure of dignitas.
Since Claudius ( like most of the members of his dynasty ) heavily criticized his predecessors and relatives in surviving speeches, it is not hard to imagine the nature of Suetonius ' charge.
Suetonius quotes Claudius ' autobiography once, and must have used it as a source numerous times.
: Suetonius wrote "... for even if he was not the instigator of the emperor's death, he was at least privy to it, as he openly admitted ; for he used afterwards to laud mushrooms, the vehicle in which the poison was administered to Claudius, as " the food of the gods ," as the Greek proverb has it.
What little is known of Titus's early life has been handed down to us by Suetonius, who records that he was brought up at the imperial court in the company of Britannicus, the son of emperor Claudius, who would be murdered by Nero in 55.
According to Suetonius, Claudius divorced her in 24 on grounds of adultery by Plautia and his suspicions of her involvement in the murder of her sister-in-law Apronia.
According to Suetonius, he was born with the praenomen Decimus, but it was later changed to Nero-an unusual example of using a second cognomen as a praenomen rather than an agnomen: " Nero " was a traditional cognomen of the Claudius family, whereas " Drusus " originally belonged to the Livius dynasty.
* " increase in the number of Greek words in ordinary use " ( Claudius Suetonius refers to " both our languages ", Latin and Greek )
Graves claimed that after he read Suetonius, Claudius came to him in a dream one night and demanded that his real story be told.
Claudius arrived with reinforcements, including artillery and elephants, but as Suetonius and Claudius ' triumphal arch state, the British kings surrendered without further bloodshed.
This theory is supported by Suetonius, who writes that Claudius came ex Regillis oppido Sabinorum ; that is, " from Regillum, a town of the Sabines.
" This appears to conflict with the tradition that Claudius was a native of Cures, and may simply be speculation on the part of Suetonius, but there is nothing inherently improbable about this theory.
According to Suetonius, Claudius divorced Paetina for slight offenses.
* Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars, Claudius.
Scholars generally agree that this expulsion from Rome is likely the same as that reported by Suetonius in Claudius 25 in his Lives of the Twelve Caesars further confirming the consistency of the Pauline-based chronology.
In Claudius 25 Suetonius refers to the expulsion of Jews by Claudius and states:
Just as Graves ' Claudius books ( I, Claudius and Claudius the God and his Wife Messalina ) were based upon, for example, The Twelve Caesars of Suetonius, Count Belisarius is largely based on Procopius's History of Justinian's Wars and Secret History.
Suetonius and figure
With regards to the emperor himself as a religious figure, both Suetonius and Cassius Dio allege that Domitian officially gave himself the title of Dominus et Deus.
Suetonius and many
In Rome other interpretations were placed on the phenomenon: according to Suetonius, Caligula's " approaching murder was foretold by many prodigies.
The twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth books are largely based on the writings of Pliny and Solinus ; whilst the lost Prata of Suetonius, which can be partly pieced together from its quoted passages in Etymolgiae, seems to have inspired the general plan of the " Etymologiae ", as well as many of its details.
Cunobeline or Cunobelinus ( also written Kynobellinus, Κυνοβελλίνος in Greek and sometimes abbreviated to Cunobelin ) ( late 1st century BC-40s AD ) was a historical king in pre-Roman Britain, known from passing mentions by classical historians Suetonius and Dio Cassius, and from his many inscribed coins.
Suetonius ' account, written many years after the event, has them salute the emperor with the phrase " morituri te salutant " (" those who are about to die salute you ").
While other Roman writers of the time, such as Cicero, Suetonius, Lucan, Tacitus and Pliny the Elder, described human sacrifice among the Celts, only Caesar and the geographer Strabo mention the wicker man as one of many ways the Druids of Gaul performed sacrifices.
Suetonius offered battle in a strong defensive position described by Tacitus and many fruitless attempts have been made to be more precise regarding the site of the Battle of Watling Street, the last battle of Boudica.
" The Latin name of the priesthood is given by Suetonius: " He caused the rex Nemorensis, who had held his priesthood for many years, to be supplanted by a stronger adversary.
According to Suetonius ( Caesar, 56 ), many authorities considered Oppius to have written the histories of the Spanish, African and Alexandrian wars which were published as the works of Caesar himself.
Suetonius and attributing
The contemporary historian Suetonius speculated on the possible involvement of Domitian in his brother's death, attributing his final words to a popular rumour of the time, which held that Titus had carried on an affair with Domitia Longina.
Suetonius and good
Suetonius states that Domitius was congratulated by friends on the birth of his son, whereupon he replied " I don't think anything produced by me and Agrippina could possibly be good for the state or the people ".
The ancient historical writers, chiefly Suetonius and Tacitus, write from the point of view of the Roman senatorial aristocracy, and portray the Emperors in generally negative terms, whether from preference for the Roman Republic or love of a good scandalous story.
Despite concerns over his character, Titus ruled to great acclaim following the death of Vespasian in 79, and was considered a good emperor by Suetonius and other contemporary historians.
" Writing several decades after the fall of the so-called " Julio-Claudian dynasty ", Suetonius took care to mention both the good and wicked deeds attributed to members of the family.
Suetonius refers to the leader of the leader of the Christians as Chrestus ( a term which may have also been used by Tacitus ) and was also common at the time, particularly for slaves, meaning good or useful.
Vologases was satisfied with this result, and honored the memory of Nero ( Suetonius Nero, 57 ), though he stood in good relations with Vespasian also, to whom he offered an army of 40, 000 archers in the war against Vitellius.
Suetonius and works
He does not appear in Suetonius ' version of the events, but this may be understandable, since his works were published under Nerva's direct descendants Trajan and Hadrian.
The most extensive account of the life of Domitian to survive was written by the historian Suetonius, who was born during the reign of Vespasian, and published his works under Emperor Hadrian ( 117 – 138 ).
They include Hesiod ( 1667 ), Lucian, Pseudosophista ( 1668 ), Justin, Historiae Philippicae ( 1669 ), Suetonius ( 1672 ), Catullus, Tibullus et Propertius ( 1680 ), and several of the works of Cicero, which are considered his best.
Suetonius uniequivocally asserts that the works of Cremutius Cordus were put back into circulation during the reign of Gaius.
" Other works of Guevara are the Decada de los Césares ( Valladolid, 1539 ), or " Lives of the Ten Roman Emperors ," in imitation of the manner of Plutarch and Suetonius ; and the Epistolas familiares ( Valladolid, 1539 – 1545 ), sometimes called " The Golden Letters ," often printed in Spain, and translated into all the principal languages of Europe.
* His Life of Virgil is thought to be based on a lost Vita by Suetonius, together with the preface and introduction of his commentary on Virgil's works.
According to Suetonius, the Roman Emperor Tiberius took a complete set of her works with him when he retreated to his resort on Capri.
Some of the lost works of Suetonius ' " illustrious people " and Boccaccio's De Casibus Virorum Illustrium are a mixture of women and men, where others like Petrarch's De Viris Illustribus and Jerome's De Viris Illustribus are biographies of exclusively men.
He clearly had access to works of the classical authors Valerius Maximus, Pliny, Livy, Ovid, Suetonius, Statius, Virgil, Lactantius, Orosius, and Justinus.
Passages from the works of Juvenal, Seneca, and Suetonius suggest that those retiarii who fought in tunics may have constituted an even more demeaned subtype ( retiarii tunicati ) who were not viewed as legitimate retiarii fighters but as arena clowns.
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