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  • In 60 or 61 C.E., while Roman governor Gaius Suetonius Paulinus was ... In 60 or 61 C.E., the current Roman governor, Gaius Suetonius Paulinus ...
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  • The Roman historian Suetonius referred to Caligula as a "monster ... with all three, but especially Drusilla. Suetonius in particular writes a ...
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  • Lives of the Twelve Caesars scribe, Suetonius, describes Antony's ... *Suetonius, Gaius Tranquillus. The Lives of the Twelve Caesars. BiblioLife ...
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  • in 65.Brian W. Jones and Robert Milns, Suetonius: The Flavian Emperors: ... law and attained the rank of quaestor.Suetonius, [http://penelope.uchicago ...
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  • The writings of Flavius Josephus, Suetonius, and Dio Cassius report ... involved with the death of Claudius, but Suetonius, a relatively well-respected ...
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  • second centuries – Josephus, Tacitus, Suetonius, and Pliny the Younger ... ====Suetonius==== Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (c. 69–140) wrote the ...
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  • satires is attributed either to Suetonius, or to Valerius Probus, possibly a grammarian who lived during the time of Nero. Many details of the ...
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  • century B.C.E. also mention bagpipes. Suetonius described the Roman Emporer ... Suetonius, [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/12C ...
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  • The historian Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (c. 71 - 135 C.E.) describes ... however, he showed no physical deformity, as Suetonius notes that ...
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  • and executing Christians after the fire, and Suetonius praises Nero for punishing Christians, though not in connection with the fire. Tradition holds ...
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  • existence of Jesus: Josephus, Tacitus, Suetonius, and Pliny the Younger ... * Suetonius, who wrote in the second century, made reference to unrest ...
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  • |Acts|18:2; Suetonius' Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Claudius XXV.4. Paul is aware that there is some conflict between Gentile and Jewish ...
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  • and he bought copies containing works by Virgil, Suetonius, Pliny The Younger, and Lucretius. During his four years of study in Paris, he acquired ...
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  • by later historians, such as Appian, Suetonius, Plutarch, Cassius Dio ... of letting Caesar live. According to Suetonius, the dictator in relenting ...
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  • Suetonius and J.C. Rolfe. 1913.[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman ... In 60-61 C.E., while Governor Gaius Suetonius Paulinus was campaigning ...
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  • life is known for sure. Most sources, including Suetonius and the poet Ovid (Amores III.XV), agree that he was born in or near Verona, although the Palatine ...
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  • On one voyage across the Aegean Sea in 75 B.C.E.,According to Suetonius, [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/12Caesars/Julius ...
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  • ** [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/pwh/suet-vergil.html Suetonius: The Life of Virgil], an English translation. ** [http://www.forumromanum.org/literat ...
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  • relied on the Roman historians Tacitus and Suetonius but researched other primary sources as well. He visited Italy many times to learn about customs ...
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  • came to him in a dream one night after reading Suetonius, and demanded that his real story be told. The life of Claudius provided Graves with a way ...
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  • Suetonius, "Julius Caesar," 1.2. Augustus included the Vestals in all major dedications and ceremonies. The discovery of a "House ...
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  • Writing more than a century after the death of Augustus, Suetonius included among a series of wonders associated with his birth a story recounted ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • . According to Suetonius, it was at this point that Caesar said that ... * Suetonius, Robert Graves, and J.B. Rives. The Twelve Caesars. London ...
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  • credence to every slander recorded in Tacitus or Suetonius against the members of prior imperial dynasties. Literary texts, especially those of ...
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  • to the Egyptian rite (a letter quoted in Suetonius suggests this), although he was at the time married to Octavia, sister of his fellow triumvir ...
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  • Strabo, Livy (as far as we know), Lucan, Florus, Suetonius, Appian, and even Athenaeus—apparently knew nothing of the burning of the Museum, of the ...
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  • taken from classical authors such as Plutarch, Suetonius, the Bible, from contemporary events and from short story collections (Italian, French and ...
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  • include easily identifiable passages from Livy, Suetonius, Plutarch, and other classical historians, as well as medieval chroniclers, such as Villehardouin ...
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  • Robert Graves Suetonius, and Michael Grant, 2003, The twelve Caesars, (Penguin classics. London, UK: Penguin. ISBN 9780140449211), 220. ...
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  • whose title and arrangement were borrowed from Suetonius. It contains short biographical and literary notes on 135 Christian authors, from Saint Peter ...
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  • On the front of the building is a quote from Suetonius' Life of Augustus: "He found a city built of brick - left it built of marble." ...
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  • Suetonius reported a rumor that Caligula planned to appoint his favorite horse Incitatus to the Roman Senate. He ordered his soldiers to invade ...
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