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SUETONIUS A Conference at the University of Manchester, 26-27 June 2008
Suetonius is well known both inside and outside the research community through popular translations and adaptations of his work. However, while widely known and read, his work is rarely the object of dedicated study in its own right: books, collections and conferences - dedicated solely to Suetonius are rare events. His work has often been studied only as a valuable source of anecdotal and often racy information for the illumination of the early imperial period; but it has, as yet, not been fully explored for its literary interest and for its profound influence upon the history of European literature during the Middle Ages and Renaissance. The aim of this conference, then, is to galvanise and stimulate discussion, among a new generation of literary critics, of this key early imperial author and of his influence upon later literary and scholarly traditions.
For more information, contact Ruth Morello (ruth.morello@manchester.ac.uk) or Roy Gibson (roy.gibson@manchester.ac.uk)
Provisional Programme
Rhiannon Ash (Oxford), Suetonius and the Flavians
Tim Cornell (Manchester) After Suetonius. Marius Maximus and the Lives of the Caesars
Bob Cowan (Oxford), A sausage stuffed with Caesars: Suetonius the satirist
Roy Gibson (Manchester) Suetonius and his circle
Erik Gunderson (Toronto), The emperor, e.g., Augustus
Edith Hall (Royal Holloway), Suetonius and the translation of Philemon Holland
John Henderson (Cambridge), Was Suetonius' Julius a Caesar?
Donna Hurley (New York), Suetonius' Rubrics: Structure in the 'Lives of the Caesars'
Jean-Michel Hulls (St Anne's, Oxford), The Mirror in the text: privacy, performance and the power of biography
Rebecca Langlands (Exeter), Suetonius and the future of sexual ethics?
Ruth Morello (Manchester) Suetonius and the foundations of scholarship
Tristan Power (Reading) The endings of Suetonius' Caesars
Jeff Tatum (Sydney), Another look at Suetonius's emperors
Peter Wiseman (Exeter), Fun and games: Suetonius' De spectaculis
Jamie Wood (Sheffield), Roman and Carolingian Emperors: Suetonius' De Vita Caesarum in the early Middle Ages
Note on Conference Series
This is the fifth in an informal series of biennial conferences organised by Latinists at the University of Manchester. The first three have been published as Re-imagining Pliny the Younger (Arethusa 36.2, 2003); The Art of Love: Bimillennial Essays on Ovids Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoris (OUP, 2006); and Ancient Letters: Classical and Late Antique Epistolography (OUP, 2007). A fourth Fourth Pliny the Elder: Themes and Contexts is in preparation for publication with Brill in late 2008. For further information, see:
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/arethusa/
http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199277773
http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199203956