Talk:Suetonius

message: Something should be added in reference to Suetonius's mention of early Christian history.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.182.165.138 (talk) 13:40, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Suetonius on Christian persecution

message: Is Suetonius really considered one of the most impartial ancient historians?  This seems distinctly wrong to me. john k 07:17, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Impartial?

message: I looked. Suetonius isn't directly on there. I looked some more. THE LIVES OF THE TWELVE CAESARS ON WIKI SOURCE IS LITERALLY A REDLINKED TABLE OF CONTENTS. What the heck?!   contains Nero's life, at least. GAHHHHHHH... And NO, I CANNOT add it, because I'M trying to get a paper done for finals, which I'm in the middle of right now! So, COULD SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP?! 169.229.121.94 06:27, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikisource is there because it contains some of Suetonius' works, including the Lives of Eminent Grammarians, which are linkable by chapter if anyone wants to cite them in an article. The Twelve Caesars are redlinks. but they will probably be filled in at some point, and in the meantime there are plenty of links to sites with linkable texts in the article. Do calm down. --Nicknack009 20:23, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: WHY is Wikisource included?

message: This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 14:49, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject class rating

message: I'm stumbling a little bit as I try to use the internet sources to verify dim recollections of what I thought I knew about a familiar cliche?  
 
What if Shakespeare borrowed from Suetonius?
* Caesar’s wife must be above reproach ...? 
* Meos tam suspicione quam crimine iudico carere oportere.
* My wife should be as much free from suspicion of a crime as she is from a crime itself ...?
If verifiable, would this allusion have a place in this article?  As an illustration of the cultural legacy of Suetonius' writing? --Tenmei (talk) 04:25, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Ceasar's wife

message: The Authenticity section currently states: 
I do not find the spelling "Chrestians" in my copies of Suetonius, so this section seems to be conflating the passage from Tacitus and the one from Suetonius, offering a single reason for the authenticity of each, and claiming that their are two reasons for a single passage which does not exist. Perhaps there is an edition of Suetonius that I am not in possession of that does use the "Chrestians" spelling. If so, a citation would be appreciated. Revcasy (talk) 13:37, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: This was all rather confused, in addition to problems noted below. I've tried to make sense of it, and have a note to a scholar who says the correct readings for Suetonius are Chrestus and Christiani. Cynwolfe (talk) 22:11, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Authenticity 

message: Why is Suetonius's incredibly brief and not unproblematic evidence for Christianity given play even before the section on his life? It's conventional to place the "Life" section first, and a survey of the "Works" should precede discussion of a specific passage. And of course the Lives are S.'s major achievement — the intro currently says "He is important to Christians because of his reference to the Historicity of Jesus", in the second sentence, as if this is of greater substance than the Lives as a whole. There are, and for centuries have been, self-identified Christians who find a great deal of interest and value in the works of Suetonius other than two mentions that possibly pertain to Christianity. (It isn't even universally held that Suetonius's Chrestus is Jesus Christ.) These are rather serious POV and balance issues, since the section on Christianity is not only out of order, but way way way out of proportion to the rest of the article. I'm going to move it and condense it — though I still think it results in WP:UNDUE. Cynwolfe (talk) 20:19, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  why the emphasis on Christianity? 

message: Suetonius reports that he was born, in Rome no doubt, on 7 or 24 September. The biographer prefers the later date, but the earlier is commonly held to be correct, largely because it provides what is thought a more satisfactory. He was educated in Rome, and there he was encouraged and supported in his earlier years by the Younger Pliny.
See also the books : A. Cook 1956–7, pp. 18–22 and J. Gascou 1978, pp. 436–444 or  - Encyclopaedia Britannica.  --PoseidonAndMedusa (talk) 08:29, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suetonius was not born in Hippo Regius 

message: Why use the 'portrait' of some unknown medieval illustrator who obviously didn't know what Suetonius looked like? Because it is not copyrighted? Why not use one of the thousands of Roman portrait busts out there also not copyrighted? At least they are of the period of his life, and not some random woodcut from a thousand years later. 47.232.145.208 (talk) 03:30, 6 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture used in this article 

message: AD and BC are expressions of Christian supremacy. The correct, secular format is CE and BCE; CE being "common (or current) era." David Cary Hart (talk) 16:21, 17 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: WP:ERA. --Nicknack009 (talk) 18:48, 17 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date Style