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Sources Flashcards

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Suetonius

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  • secretary to Hadrian
  • wrote biographies
  • had access to imperial archives
  • work not intended for historical record
  • known to gossip
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Velleius Paterclus

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  • friend of Sejanus
  • served under Aug and Tib
  • flatters
  • no historical insight
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Cassius Dio

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  • 1,000 years of history
  • covers all emperors
  • senator under commodus
  • over 100 years after period
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Tacitus

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  • served under Domitian- negative view of emperors
  • covers all emperors
  • focused accounts
  • historian
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Strabo

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  • geographer, philosopher, historian
  • factual
  • 63BC-24AD
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Frontinus

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  • water commissioner

- factual

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Pliny

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  • natural philosopher
  • factual
  • friend of Vespasian
  • 23-79AD
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Horace

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  • poet
  • contemporary to Augustus
  • propaganda
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Red Gestae

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  • Augustus

- propaganda

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Juvenal

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Satire

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Josephus

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  • covers Gaius

- jewish - negative

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