Character inheritance in Suetonius' Caligula and Nero

Title: Character inheritance in Suetonius' Caligula and Nero
Creator: Garrett, Phoebe
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
Publisher: Australasian Society for Classical Studies (ASCS)
Resource Type: conference paper
Date: 2010
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
Subject: Suetonius; Caligula; Nero; character inheritance
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/935442
Identifier: uon:12065
Language: eng
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