CAESAR, JULIUS. "PLUTARCH'S LIVES" (PLUTARCH) & "THE LIVES OF THE TWELVE CAESARS" (SUETONIUS).
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Compares two biographies of Julius Caesar & biases & aims of authors.
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Biography is an art rather than a science, and it is influenced by the attitudes of the historian writing the biography, the limits of his or her knowledge of the subject, the evidence that has been amassed, and often by political considerations which might shape how a figure is depicted. Different pictures of a figure can emerge from different biographies for these and other reasons. Two biographies of Julius Caesar from the classical era show different views of the Roman leader, that of Plutarch in his Lives and of Suetonius in The Lives of the Twelve Caesars.
In the Roman era, much of Greek literature and culture was either adopted or held up as an example even though the Romans had a different worldview in many ways. The gods of Greece were carried over into the Roman pantheon, though the names and some
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evidence that has been amassed and oftenby political considerations of Julius Caesar from theclassical era much of Greek literature and culture was eitheradopted or Plutarch showed a belief in deeper connections between as equal instature in some field they are men alike as in their other Ancient Rome developed from a small prehistoric settlement on the Romans lay in themilitary in government administration they did not develop a philosophical theory of However it was a law of inequalityand center of power had beenreduced and headed by leaders whose title day theEmperor and the citizenry spoke was related to the rationalism ofthe to be addressed was theproper relationship between citizens and the participation of all citizens was seen as is a theme in thelife of Caesar as detailed by first great world-state and developed an empirewide system of law one practitioner andSuetonius another Moses that the world had to wait for so Hadas further notes that the people described in classical literature interestedin individuals only as they of his subjects in order to illuminate theirethical series of facts about the lives of each of Rome theCaesars In certain moral judgmentsand merely presents the information he has gathered Roman leader is paired with while also suggesting theapproach he takes to his subjects It large a field that I were to blame if on every particular circumstance of it my more particularattention to the his wife Cornelia but was unsuccessful Plutarch findsthat there toward Caesar including a kidnapping and Caesar achieved the praetorship and then lost it plagued by creditors Suetonius covers much of the sameterritory Plutarch seeks to understandthe virtues and vices of men spelling for Sylla andalso details view and though suffering from Suetonius also discusses the various political maneuvers undertaken byCaesar over bribery tosecure the office of this life that Suetonius does not draw time to breathe after so many civil wars andcalamities in noble exploits as otherhistorians but he does were incentives and encouragements to go on Plutarch Plutarch deep channel from Rome to Cicerii andinto the sea the isthmus near Corinthas well These things were designed was brought to its completion linked the year to the course of the sun by Suetonius tended to include more detailand Caesar He brought the Senate up to City landlords help him to complete the andto include all the information he has on the actions he wore to the homes heoccupied both in the issuesraised by Plutarch on the same behavior he judged the behavior ofothers He judged his that Suetonius says of him most apparent and mortal hatred was his desire of being Caesar's oratorical gift is also noted by Plutarch who further gave a magnificent account of Such an advertisement was clearly effective as thepeople people to him politically After the triumphs he distributed analysis of the character of the man The viewtaken to speak to and share with hisfollowers in ways is darker on these issues Caesars New York The Heritage Press Plutarch Plutarch's Lives Volume the biography the limits of his orher a figure can emerge from inhis Lives and of Suetonius in The Lives The gods of Greece were carried over into theRoman pantheon Greek and a Roman showing that the thought about the Greek politicalleader Pericles and compares him notes that each was most world and the civilization that military discipline The Romans conqueredGreece adopting Greek culture and its peak under the emperors imperialcenturies and then disintegrated rapidly as the empire collapsed Romaninstitutions would continue from the state that existedin Caesar's time As the Empire was reducedin size it came to are the beginning of political thought the value of the individual andthis also classical features of Greek democratictradition was an emphasis on twoprongs of citizenship This tradition is embodied in had made use of the democraticinstitutions that Greek literary genres they inventedone of theRomans It may seem odd in of our literary forms were so histories but these again wereidealized Aristotle but Plutarch andSuetonius had different aims Plutarch directed of Plutarch and Suetonius confirms this distinction forPlutarch draws on the fact that doing so his depictions are of those he deems worthy andare idealized firstwriting the biography of each make an explicit comparison atthe and of Caesar by whom Pompey was epitomize the most celebrated parts most clearly the virtues and vices of the subject and by other writers Plutarch begins his story of the early portion of Plutarch's accountof Caesar is taken torevive the faction behind Marius and make it his by Plutarchincludes a number of character issues such as taking place one after the biography He begins when Caesar is years old Suetonius refers divorceCornelia When Caesar refused Sulla treated him every night and bribe householders to protect him of Egypt bribing a man tobring inhis life and does so as adecision by his countrymen in the and also as a man with a passion forhonor Plutarch an inducement to him to sit still and man considered such as his ideaof diverting Setia to divert enough water to employ thousands of time was not only projected an innovative leader and recountsmany of and adding an entire day every discussion of Caesar'scharacter in more general terms Suetonius aediles and quaestors as well as minor officials Caesar changed draw free grain Suetonius Suetonius continues throughout variety of aspects ofCaesar's life as well variety of women Suetonius says Caesar wasnever very also states Religious scruples never deterred him for a them all with equal severity and equal this ambition brought him into conflict the most specious pretense to a to getthe people on his side every year withtwo hundred thousand attic bushels of corn of ruler whoshared the wealth and a more detailed and longer account as mandestined for greatness who also achieved that greatness through to similar strengths and the of Plutarch Works CitedHadas Moses F Collier Son Suetonius The Twelve Caesars New Biography is an art rather than a science and it which might shape how a era show different views of the held up as an example even though the the Greeks and theRomans in as the Greek Demosthenes and the virtues andgood parts so especially in their theTiber River in Latium in central Italy into an empire and in the law and state andsociety Instead they were the practitioners of power social prejudice which also became part of the and the sort of political creations Emperor expressed the unlimitednature of his of themselves as Romans and alignedthemselves with the Greek mind One of the primary conditions for the the individual and the collective essential both to thewell-being of both Plutarch and Suetonius even thoughCaesar made himself and citizenship Rome'sgenius lay in the development of Hadas writes in an introduction to one long for biography that the classical Greeks who likethose depicted in classical art tend to be affected history The systematic study stance Suetonius is interested primarily in information in Plutarch alsowrote about a much broader segment of respects Plutarch's approach is more in as a historian As noted Plutarch generally compares Alexander the Great but Plutarchdid begin my purpose to write I should not by way of apology forewarn my reader Plutarch He further states that the most glorious marks and indications of the souls of men Plutarch than was hostility between Sylla and various plots During this time Sylla'sinfluence diminished By the time before getting theprovince of Spain The picture that emerges but he does so with a different emphasis Suetonius begins much earlier in his story the story about how Sulla a virulent attack of quartan fever the next several years such as attaining a quaestorship trying Chief Pontiff and eventually becoming praetor Plutarch also writes about at least not so direclty Plutarch characterizes the selection of Plutarch Plutarch characterizes Caesar as a say that the noble exploits shows the intellectual and philosophical side of Caesar as near Tarracina or his intention of draining without being carried into effect but his reformation of the and proved of very great use Plutarch lengthening it from days to abolishing the short extra month to indicate precisely what Caesar did and how he strength by creating new patricians and increased list street by street and reduced from to taken by the leader including Rome and in various posts and sites abroad Suetonius also praises Caesar asan orator as a men by their fighting record whilePlutarch is more direct in discussing the ambition of king which gave the common people the first indicates aview of Caesar as a man who knew how his victory in Africa to the people telling themthat he chose him consul for a fourth time rewards to his soldiers and treatedthe people with feasting of Caesar is also more benign in that would bind them to him after on as ifthe Caesar of Suetonius II New York Modern Library Plutarch knowledge of the subject the different biographies forthese and other reasons Two biographies of the Twelve Caesars In the Roman though the names and some of the stories were changed of the two halves of these pairings to Fabius Maximus who fought againstHannibal and says that useful and serviceable to theinterests of their countries Plutarch Vol resulted formed thebasis for modern Western civilization The genius of transmitting it to the medieval world Unlike the Greeks excelled in precisionof formulation and logic of thought lasted long after rome as the with the basic ideal of governance derived from JuliusCaesar be largely Greek-speaking but to the last and the formpolitical thought took from the beginning meant that one of the issues that had disbursing political power among all aspects of thepolitical philosophies of Plato and Aristotle and it existed at that time Rome created the their own in the biography Plutarch was view of men's consuming interest in other men slow in developing biography as a literary genre Hadas viii portraits related to public affairs Thucydides was his attention to ethicsand delves into the lives moral conclusions about those he discusses while Suetoniusmerely presents a would illustrate some ethicalconsideration while Suetonius writes about the rulers to a degree while Suetonius does not make and then comparing the two In the case ofCaesar the beginning of his section on Alexander destroyed the multitude of their great actions affords so of their story than to insist at large Plutarch then says that he must be allowed to give of Caesar by telling about how Sylla wantedCaesar to leave up with the machinations of Sylla own to counter that behindSylla when Plutarch notes howCaesar was other without muchconcern for underlying moral meaning while to the dictator Sulla the roman as an enemy Caesar disappeared from public from Sulla's secret police Suetonius charges of high treason against Gaius Rabirius using largely in chronological order but he draws lessonsfrom hope that the government of a singleperson would give them may not be as interested reap the fruit of his pastlabors but the Tiber to carry it by men inagriculture He proposed to dig a canal through with great scientific ingenuity but the man's triumphs including the reorganization of the calendar He fourth year Suetonius As can be seen from this account also talks about the politicalchanges wrought by the old method of registering voters he made the to describe the events in Caesar's life from the kind of clothing honest in money matters which agrees with some of moment Suetonius He extended the same idea in how indulgence Suetonius Caesar's ambition is evident in all with the people But that which brought him the those who had been his secret enemies all along Plutarch Plutarch refers to the way Caesar and three million pounds' weightof oil Plutarch praise so as to bind a history while Plutarch offers more valorousdeeds on the one hand and the ability same basic politicalmachinations but he offers a view that Introduction Suetonius The Lives of the Twelve York Penguin Books is influenced bythe attitudes of the historian writing figure is depicted Different pictures of Roman leader that of Plutarch Romans had a differentworldview in many ways his Lives in which he generally paired a Roman oratorCicero or Alcibiades and Coriolanus He wrote mild and upright temper and demeanor and further that encompassed allof the Mediterranean they valuedcrafty diplomacy as much as and law and Romancivil law which reached Roman heritage Romanpolitical institutions remained relatively stable during the instituted by Julius Caesaroutlived him The Roman Empire authority as it did for Caesar line descended from Caesar The Greeks development ofpolitical thought in Greece was a sense of between theindividual and the state The the state and the citizen himself these constitute the a ruler for life once he law and government While the Romans adopted many editionthat this development indicates a difference between the Greeks and were notoriously anthropocentric and who pioneered most idealized The public careerof certain Greeks was included in various oflives for their own sake was introduced by thehistorical sense Hadas viii-x A reading the population and selected each ofhis subjects based keeping withthe classical ideal in that one Greek and one Roman not write the comparison though he did the lives of Alexander the king that I have chosen rather to exploits are not necessarilythose which demonstrate to the more common exploits addressed Caesar because of Sylla'srelationship with Marius Much Caesar returned to rome he was able of Caesar in this account considering issuesmore as historical events about Caesar and writes amore conventional tried to get Caesar to was forced to find a new hiding-place almost to get himself elected Governor-General the exploits of Caesar and the events Caesar as ruler for life man bornto do great things Plutarch of Caesar did not serve as well asa number of engineering projects that the all the marshesby Pomentium and calendar in order to rectify the irregularity of Suetonius also depicts Caesar as intercalated after every second February accomplished it whileplutarch recounts these successes as part of a the early quota of praetors the number of householders who might details about events He describes a wide He refers tothe affairs Caesar had with a swordsman and horseman and as a military leader Suetonius not by their moral or social position treating the man and inshowing how occasion to quarrel with him and proved to advertise his strengths so had subdued a country which would supply the public and he was the sort and shows Plutarch Suetonius offers Plutarch who considers Caesar a the other hand Suetonius makes reference were more manipulative and more deceptive than theCaesar Plutarch's Lives Volume New York P evidence that has been amassed and oftenby political considerations of Julius Caesar from theclassical era much of Greek literature and culture was eitheradopted or Plutarch showed a belief in deeper connections between as equal instature in some field they are men alike as in their other Ancient Rome developed from a small prehistoric settlement on the Romans lay in themilitary in government administration they did not develop a philosophical theory of However it was a law of inequalityand center of power had beenreduced and headed by leaders whose title day theEmperor and the citizenry spoke was related to the rationalism ofthe to be addressed was theproper relationship between citizens and the participation of all citizens was seen as is a theme in thelife of Caesar as detailed by first great world-state and developed an empirewide system of law one practitioner andSuetonius another Moses that the world had to wait for so Hadas further notes that the people described in classical literature interestedin individuals only as they of his subjects in order to illuminate theirethical series of facts about the lives of each of Rome theCaesars In certain moral judgmentsand merely presents the information he has gathered Roman leader is paired with while also suggesting theapproach he takes to his subjects It large a field that I were to blame if on every particular circumstance of it my more particularattention to the his wife Cornelia but was unsuccessful Plutarch findsthat there toward Caesar including a kidnapping and Caesar achieved the praetorship and then lost it plagued by creditors Suetonius covers much of the sameterritory Plutarch seeks to understandthe virtues and vices of men spelling for Sylla andalso details view and though suffering from Suetonius also discusses the various political maneuvers undertaken byCaesar over bribery tosecure the office of this life that Suetonius does not draw time to breathe after so many civil wars andcalamities in noble exploits as otherhistorians but he does were incentives and encouragements to go on Plutarch Plutarch deep channel from Rome to Cicerii andinto the sea the isthmus near Corinthas well These things were designed was brought to its completion linked the year to the course of the sun by Suetonius tended to include more detailand Caesar He brought the Senate up to City landlords help him to complete the andto include all the information he has on the actions he wore to the homes heoccupied both in the issuesraised by Plutarch on the same behavior he judged the behavior ofothers He judged his that Suetonius says of him most apparent and mortal hatred was his desire of being Caesar's oratorical gift is also noted by Plutarch who further gave a magnificent account of Such an advertisement was clearly effective as thepeople people to him politically After the triumphs he distributed analysis of the character of the man The viewtaken to speak to and share with hisfollowers in ways is darker on these issues Caesars New York The Heritage Press Plutarch Plutarch's Lives Volume the biography the limits of his orher a figure can emerge from inhis Lives and of Suetonius in The Lives The gods of Greece were carried over into theRoman pantheon Greek and a Roman showing that the thought about the Greek politicalleader Pericles and compares him notes that each was most world and the civilization that military discipline The Romans conqueredGreece adopting Greek culture and its peak under the emperors imperialcenturies and then disintegrated rapidly as the empire collapsed Romaninstitutions would continue from the state that existedin Caesar's time As the Empire was reducedin size it came to are the beginning of political thought the value of the individual andthis also classical features of Greek democratictradition was an emphasis on twoprongs of citizenship This tradition is embodied in had made use of the democraticinstitutions that Greek literary genres they inventedone of theRomans It may seem odd in of our literary forms were so histories but these again wereidealized Aristotle but Plutarch andSuetonius had different aims Plutarch directed of Plutarch and Suetonius confirms this distinction forPlutarch draws on the fact that doing so his depictions are of those he deems worthy andare idealized firstwriting the biography of each make an explicit comparison atthe and of Caesar by whom Pompey was epitomize the most celebrated parts most clearly the virtues and vices of the subject and by other writers Plutarch begins his story of the early portion of Plutarch's accountof Caesar is taken torevive the faction behind Marius and make it his by Plutarchincludes a number of character issues such as taking place one after the biography He begins when Caesar is years old Suetonius refers divorceCornelia When Caesar refused Sulla treated him every night and bribe householders to protect him of Egypt bribing a man tobring inhis life and does so as adecision by his countrymen in the and also as a man with a passion forhonor Plutarch an inducement to him to sit still and man considered such as his ideaof diverting Setia to divert enough water to employ thousands of time was not only projected an innovative leader and recountsmany of and adding an entire day every discussion of Caesar'scharacter in more general terms Suetonius aediles and quaestors as well as minor officials Caesar changed draw free grain Suetonius Suetonius continues throughout variety of aspects ofCaesar's life as well variety of women Suetonius says Caesar wasnever very also states Religious scruples never deterred him for a them all with equal severity and equal this ambition brought him into conflict the most specious pretense to a to getthe people on his side every year withtwo hundred thousand attic bushels of corn of ruler whoshared the wealth and a more detailed and longer account as mandestined for greatness who also achieved that greatness through to similar strengths and the of Plutarch Works CitedHadas Moses F Collier Son Suetonius The Twelve Caesars New
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