Table of Contents

List of Tables
Abbreviations
Introduction
Suetonius: Career and Literary Production
Suetonius' Place in the Development of Imperial Biography
The Structure of Augustus
Suetonius' Sources in Augustus
Reading Suetonius' Augustus
The Text and Translation
Translation
Commentary
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

D. Wardle is NKGV Professor of Classics at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Reviews

absolutely invaluable for anyone interested in a major source for the life of the first Roman emperor
*Peter Jones, Classics for All*

an essential addition to the Roman historian's bookshelf
*Arthur J Pomeroy, Acta Classica*

To absorb the sheer range of published scholarship relating both to such a well-trodden text and to the lengthy career of Augustus is a daunting task, but Wardle. has shown that it can be done. In the commentary itself he synthesises clearly, evaluates judiciously and offers perceptive insights of his own: for example, noting Suetonius' tragic framing of the reversals in Augustus' family fortunes (416). His practice of not only referencing and discussing but often quoting the most relevant comparative or contextualising primary sources will be greatly appreciated by undergraduates in particular. He is also refreshingly forthright about the limitations of what we can glean from any of them
*Penelope J. Goodman, Journal of Roman Studies*