Lives of the Caesars & On Teachers of Grammar and Rhetoric (C. Suetoni Tranquilli De uita Caesarum libri...

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Robert A. Kaster (Professor of Classics and Kennedy Foundation Professor of Latin Language and Literature, Princeton University)

Lives of the Caesars & On Teachers of Grammar and Rhetoric

C. Suetoni Tranquilli De uita Caesarum libri VIII et De grammaticis et rhetoribus liber

Robert A. Kaster (Professor of Classics and Kennedy Foundation Professor of Latin Language and Literature, Princeton University)

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English

Oxford University Press
21 July 2016

Prose: non-fiction; History; European history; Classical history & classical civilisation; Latin

Series: Oxford Classical Texts

Oxford Classical Texts, also known as Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis, provide authoritative, clear, and reliable editions of ancient texts.Suetonius' Lives of the Caesars-the collected biographies of the Roman Empire's first leaders-is an indispensable source for our understanding of the first century of the Roman Empire and is, at the same time, one of the main sources (with Plutarch) of the tradition of biographical writing in the West. This volume provides the first new critical edition of the Latin text to appear in over a century, and has been rigorously edited to the highest standards of scholarship. The Latin text is accompanied by a critical apparatus at the foot of the page which provides concise information on manuscript and textual variants. It is also the first edition ever to base itself on a comprehensive and accurate analysis of the medieval manuscript tradition (ninth to thirteenth centuries) on which the text is based. An extensive English preface-featuring illustrative stemmata-is included, as well as a detailed apparatus testium. It also features an updated version of the editor's original 1995 Oxford University Press edition of De grammaticis et rhetoribus, a collection of brief biographies of ancient Roman teachers of grammar and rhetoric (first century BCE-first century CE) that is a crucial source for the history of ancient education. This Oxford Classical Text is accompanied by a companion volume, Studies on the Text of Suetonius' De uita Caesarum, which provides a detailed insight into the research and textual analysis underlying this critical edition.

Edited by: Robert A. Kaster (Professor of Classics and Kennedy Foundation Professor of Latin Language and Literature Princeton University)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 190mm, Width: 139mm, Spine: 38mm
Weight: 632g
ISBN: 9780198713791
ISBN 10: 0198713797
Series: Oxford Classical Texts
Pages: 576
Publication Date: 21 July 2016
Audience: College/higher education , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface Editions Cited in the Apparatus Bibliography Abbreviations Text Index nominum

Robert A. Kaster is Professor of Classics and Kennedy Foundation Professor of Latin Language and Literature at Princeton University.

Reviews for Lives of the Caesars & On Teachers of Grammar and Rhetoric (C. Suetoni Tranquilli De uita Caesarum libri VIII et De grammaticis et rhetoribus liber)

through Kaster's work the Suetonian studies have made an immense advance and that Latin philology has gained a true model, in many respects, of what an edition should be. * Franz Dolveck, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *