Suetonius

Question 1

Wallace Hadrill

Sympathy

Answer 1

‘’Sympathy goes to the emperor who performs his administrative functions properly’’

Question 2

Wallace Hadrill

Hard to distinguish

Answer 2

‘’Hard to distinguish competitive flattery and what is deliberately engineered by propaganda’’

Question 3

Wallace Hadrill

Function of virtues

Answer 3

‘’Function of virtues is to generate popularity, of vices to induce hatred’’

Question 4

Wallace Hadrill

Correlation between virtues and vices

Answer 4

‘’Correlation between virtues and vices documented and the degree of popularity recorded’’

Question 5

Francis Bacon

Answer 5

When i read them ‘’gathered into titles and bundles and not in order of time, they seem more monstrous and incredible’’

Question 6

Dio

Answer 6

‘’Under the principate it was difficult to tell between real and unreal’’

Question 7

G.B Townsend

Answer 7

‘’Suetonius organises virtues and vices in an order that allows him to adopt a standard device of ancient rhetoric’’

Question 8

Benediktson

Answer 8

Graph promoting idea on prodigies (mirroring done for purpose)

Question 9

Barton

Suetonius ‘’the author’’

Answer 9

Suetonius ‘’the author of a sophisticated work characterised by considerable subtlety’’

Question 10

Barton

Wants us to ‘’read’’

Answer 10

Wants us to ‘’read with caution as a historian’’

Question 11

Barton

‘’Literature’’

Answer 11

‘’Literature and real life after all are not opposites’’

Question 12

Langlands

‘’The intensification’’

Answer 12

‘’The intensification of imperial abuse of power’’

‘’The further we move from tradition the worse it gets’’

Question 13

Langlands

‘’Creatively’’

Answer 13

‘’Creatively formulaic in their representation’’

Question 14

J W Duff

Answer 14

‘’Too keen upon petty and prurient detail to produce a scientific account of his subjects’’