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Ausgangspunkt des aus einer internationalen Tagung hervorgegangenen Sammelbandes ist die These, dass den Kaiserviten des lateinischen Biographen C. Suetonius Tranquillus nicht nur wertvolle Einblicke in die frühkaiserzeitliche Geschichte zu entnehmen, sondern auch einzigartige literarische Ansprüche zuzuerkennen sind. Zur Überprüfung bedienen sich die acht einander ergänzenden, literaturwissenschaftlich ausgerichteten Beiträge des Bandes des Instrumentariums der Narratologie. Untersucht werden u.a. die Multiperspektivität des biographischen Erzählens und die Doppel- bzw. Mehrfacherzählungen; die Darstellungsart negativer Kaiserbilder; syntaktische Besonderheiten (phrases à rallonge) und literarische Zitate; die wechselseitige Wirkung von Strukturen auf Mikro- und Makroebene. So wird insgesamt ein breiter Überblick über die Erzähltechniken von De vita Caesarum geboten, der ein partiell neues Bild Suetons als Literat entwirft und für Forscher*innen zur antiken Literatur ebenso wie für die Allgemeine Literaturwissenschaft von Interesse sein dürfte. Mit Beiträgen von Nicoletta Bruno, Margherita Fantoli, Edoardo Galfré, Matthias Grandl, Robert Kirstein, Alessio Mancini, Dennis Pausch, Verena Schulz. The Lives of the Caesars by Latin biographer C. Suetonius Tranquillus is one of the central texts for our understanding of the early imperial history of Rome as well as a work full of unique literary features. In eight connected chapters, this edited volume provides a narratological examination of the diverse range of narrative techniques that can be discovered in De vita Caesarum, from the micro to the macro level.

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"From the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power for more than 2,000 yearsWhat does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of politicians we deplore? In this book-against a background of today's "sculpture wars"-Mary Beard tells the story of how for more than two millennia portraits of the rich, powerful, and famous in the western world have been shaped by the image of Roman emperors, especially the "twelve Caesars," from the ruthless Julius Caesar to the fly-torturing Domitian. Twelve Caesars asks why these murderous autocrats have loomed so large in art from antiquity and the Renaissance to today, when hapless leaders are still caricatured as Neros fiddling while Rome burns.Beginning with the importance of imperial portraits in Roman politics, this richly illustrated book offers a tour through 2,000 years of art and cultural history, presenting a fresh look at works by artists from Memling and Mantegna to the nineteenth-century African American sculptor Edmonia Lewis, as well as by generations of now-forgotten weavers, cabinetmakers, silversmiths, printers, and ceramicists. Rather than a story of a simple repetition of stable, blandly conservative images of imperial men and women, Twelve Caesars is an unexpected tale of changing identities, clueless or deliberate misidentifications, fakes, and often ambivalent representations of authority.From Beard's reconstruction of Titian's extraordinary lost Room of the Emperors to her reinterpretation of Henry VIII's famous Caesarian tapestries, Twelve Caesars includes some fascinating detective work and offers a gripping story of some of the most challenging and disturbing portraits of power ever created.Published in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC"--

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