In this research we will discuss the family role and how Suetonius, in his work De Vita Caesarum, makes use of that to construct a negative memory of the Emperor Nero. For that we will observe the imperial ambience at which the biographer was inserted and we will also try to understand how that, with its political program, influenced the work writting. Because it is a research specially toward to family role, we will have an unfolding about the family centrality in many roman domestic attitudes and the public effects of such actions. However, for considering the biography of an Emperor, we will focus on the way such family values have their potentiality enlarged and modified in imperial family. Then we will see in which aspects Suetonius arranges them in order to present the searched nefarious image about Nero.

Able to speak Latin “as his own language” (Castelo Branco 2016: 86), Calisto knew all the great Latin authors. Famous sentences of Horace (Od. II, 19, 2; Epist. I, 7, 44; II, 5, 51), Virgil (Aen. I, 462; II, 774; III, 48; Georg. III, 513), Juvenal (X, 122) and Quintilian (IX, 4, 41; XI, 1, 24; XII, 10, 74) adorn the erudite character’s speech and the narrator’s words about him. The eminent Latinist also quotes Terence (Andria, 194), Pliny the Elder (HN 35, 36), and Suetonius (Titus, 8). The meaning of these quotations is the aim of this paper.

Inúmeras são as análises acerca de Caio Júlio César, importante romano que viveu no século I a.C. Diversos autores, de períodos distintos, dedicaram-se a narrar a vida deste personagem, seus feitos, suas conquistas, suas vitórias e derrotas. Logo, possuímos inúmeras faces de César, múltiplas construções que apresentam sentidos variados, objetivos diversificados. É pensando nisto que nos propomos, neste momento, a analisar como três autores, Veléio, Plutarco e Suetônio, pertencentes ao arco cronológico do Principado romano descrevem a vida de Júlio César, ressaltando as diferenças e as semelhanças existentes nestas narrações.

O presente artigo apresenta uma tradução da Vida de Terêncio, de Suetônio, discute os critérios utilizados para a versão das passagens em verso contidas no texto e apresenta os principais problemas de interpretação que a vita suscita.

Este artigo tem por objetivo analisar a Vida de Nero, de Suetônio, procurando nela identificar elementos que permitam associá-la à tradição historiográfica senatorial romana, a despeito de tal correlação não ser usualmente enfatizada pela crítica moderna. A primazia atribuída à obra de Tácito e a subvalorização do estilo literário de Suetônio são aspectos que contribuíram para essa última posição.

Released in 1979, Caligula by T. Brass and B. Guccione marked a turning point by the way Antiquity represented an idea of "Pornotopia", i.e., a time when sexuality allegedly had a value and a meaning distinct from the ones in the twentieth century. On the other hand, by recovering reflections already made by an author like Camus, Caligula reemerges in this metatextual reading as the image of an arbitrary and insane power, reinforcing ideas already germinated by ancient authors. This also justifies why a production of this nature gathered actors from the so‘called "Shakespearean school" with names that came from the porn industry.

The public execution of Vitellius, recounted by Suetonius in the context of the turbulent cycle that succeed the Nero’s death, seems to be the more ostensible manifestation of the biographer’s hostility towards an emperor. In fact, Suetonius selects from the tradition the more dishonourable elements, in order to transform the last moments of Vitellius in the deserved punishment for a contemptible life.

One of the most symbolic deaths in Suetonius is that of Caligula, comparable to the death of Julius Caesar, and equally sanctioned by the Roman traditional mentality as a justified attack to the tyranny into which had fallen this reign. Therefore, this assassinate is narrated by Suetonius and by parallel sources like a sort of ritual immolation carried out by the conspirators. Anyway, such as the slaughter of Caesar of 44 B.C., the sacrifice of Caligula was a lost opportunity to restore the republican freedom.

In the year in which the bimillennium of Augustus' death is celebrated, this study proposes a didactic analysis of Suetonius’text (Aug. 99‘100.1) about the last moments of the founder of the principate: an example of a good death, the just tribute to a ruler who, despite his many faults reported by Caesars’biographer, was consecrated as a myth and exemplary prince. After a contextualiza tion of the report within the Life of Augustus structure, a Portuguese translation is presented, followed by a commentary, which will also make a comparison with information coming from parallel sources.