Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/935442
- Title
- Character inheritance in Suetonius' Caligula and Nero
- Author/Creator
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Garrett, Phoebe
- Institution
- The University of Newcastle. Faculty of Education & Arts, School of Humanities and Social Science
- Description
- At Nero 1.2 Suetonius declares his interest in the inheritance of character from ancestors. He would have it appear that vices, where present in the parent, are inherited faithfully from parents and ancestors, but virtue, where present in the parent, degenerates and is not passed on to the son. Two Caesars demonstrate this principle: Caligula, an example of the father's considerable virtue degenerated in the son, and Nero, as the product of a long line of vicious ancestors, nastier than any of them. I contend that Suetonius' interest in character inheritance explains the level of research on the subjects' ancestors
- Relation
- 31st Conference of the Australasian Society for Classical Studies (ASCS 31). ASCS 31 [2010] Proceedings. Refereed papers from the 31st Conference of the Australasian Society for Classical Studies (Perth, W.A. 2-5 February, 2010)
- Relation
- http://msc.uwa.edu.au/classics/ascs31
- Date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Australasian Society for Classical Studies (ASCS)
- Keyword(s)
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Suetonius;
Caligula;
Nero;
character inheritance
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/935442
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