Institute for the Classical Tradition
ANRW II.34.1, pp. 629-706
 
Imperial Autobiography, Augustus to Hadrian
by R. G. Lewis, Edinburgh

Contents

I. The Problem

629

II. Models and Themes, Materials and Motives

632

1. Commentarii

633

a) Trajan: 'Dacica'

638

b) Vespasian and Titus: 'Commentarii de bello Iudaico'

640

c) C. Suetonius Paulinus

645

d) Cn. Domitius Corbulo

647

2. Agrippina the Younger - 'De consiliis suis'?

652

3. Comprehensive autobiography

658

a) Republican models

658

b) Caesar Augustus

669

c) M. Vipsanius Agrippa

689

d) Tiberius

692

e) Claudius

695

f) Hadrian

697

III. Epilogue

703
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