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   Keine Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch.  Glenn_Russell | Nov 13, 2018 |   Gayo Suetonio Tranquilo (c. 69-140 d.C.) nació cuando la dinastía de los Flavios ascendía al poder. En Roma, donde transcurrió gran parte de su vida, ejerció como secretario bajo Trajano y Adriano, y aprovechó el cargo para acceder a los archivos imperiales y a la correspondencia entre César y Augusto, material que utilizó en las Vidas de los doce Césares, su obra más conocida. Éstas consisten en doce biografías, las de Julio César, Augusto, Tiberio, Calígula, Claudio, Nerón, Galba, Otón y Vitelio, Vespasiano, Tito y Domiciano. Siguiendo el método biográfico de algunos eruditos alejandrinos, Suetonio trata sus temas esquemáticamente, según el paradigma de la contraposición retórica virtudes-vicios, y con arreglo a unos apartados fijos: antecedentes familiares, nacimiento y circunstancias, pasos hacia el poder, ejercicio del poder, vida privada, caída y muerte. A todo ello añade un ameno gusto por el detalle y lo anecdótico-humorístico, así como por lo escandaloso y lo truculento, de lo que tantos ejemplos le proporcionaron algunos de sus biografiados. Además, a su interés fundamental por el carácter ético de los personajes añade el estudio del trasfondo histórico, puesto que todos ellos fueron hombres públicos de la máxima importancia. Tiberio (42 a.C.-37 d.C.) fue emperador del Imperio Romano desde el año 14 hasta el 37. A los nueve años perdió a su padre, y entró a formar parte de la familia imperial cuando se casó con Julia, la hija de Augusto, quien lo adoptó, por lo que le fueron concedidos poderes tribunicios durante diez años. La Vida de Tiberio, tercera en la serie de biografías de emperadores que componen las Vidas de Suetonio, a la sombra de los gigantescos César y Augusto, constituye uno de los documentos más ricos de la vida de este vicioso, avaro y cruel personaje cuya muerte alegró tanto a su contemporáneos: «Tiberio, al Tíber», gritaban. FundacionRosacruz | Apr 11, 2018 | With the death of the great Augustus, Tiberius, already in his 50s, became the next Roman Emperor and ruled from 14 AD to 37 AD. In a way this was an unfortunate turn of events for the Roman people since Tiberius, always a dark, gloomy, reclusive man, really did not want the responsibility of being the leader of an entire empire. Predictably, not only does Roman biographer Suetonius outline the family history and overarching accomplishments of Tiberius’s 22 year reign, but provides much color commentary on the character of the man. Here are a few highlights along with my comments: “He had such an aversion to flattery, that he would never suffer any senator to approach his litter, as he passed the streets in it, either to pay him a civility, or upon business. And when a man of consular rank, in begging his pardon for some offence he had given him, attempted to fall at his feet, he started from him in such haste, that he stumbled and fell.” ---------- Too bad life didn’t leave Tiberius alone, so he could live the last phase of his life in peace and quiet, far from the maddening crowd. “He reduced the expense of the plays and public spectacles, by diminishing the allowances to actors, and curtailing the number of gladiators.” --------- I’m sure the Roman populous saw their emperor as a supreme killjoy. What was Tiberius thinking? The Roman people loved their comedies, farces, satires, chariot races and especially gladiator fights – the more the merrier. If you want to win the hearts of these people, give the people more plays and bloody games, not less. “He published an edict against the practice of people's kissing each other when they met.” ---------- It takes a dark, gloomy, morose man to ban kissing. Come on, Tiberius, give us a break. "A few days after his arrival at Capri, a fisherman coming up to him unexpectedly, when he was desirous of privacy, and presenting him with a large mullet, he ordered the man's face to be scrubbed with the fish; being terrified at the thought of his having been able to creep upon him from the back of the island, over such rugged and steep rocks. The man, while undergoing the punishment, expressing his joy that he had not likewise offered him a large crab which he had also taken, he ordered his face to be farther lacerated with its claws." ---------- Such cruelty. If the fisherman only realized how sadistic Tiberius was, he would have kept his mouth shut and thus avoided having his face lacerated. "In his retreat at Capri, he also contrived an apartment containing couches, and adapted to the secret practice of abominable lewdness, where he entertained companies of girls and catamites, and assembled from all quarters inventors of unnatural copulations, whom he called Spintriae, who defiled one another in his presence, to inflame by the exhibition the languid appetite. . . . He likewise contrived recesses in woods and groves for the gratification of lust, where young persons of both sexes prostituted themselves in caves and hollow rocks, in the disguise of little Pans and Nymphs." ---------- That’s one way to try to overcome your gloominess – but far from the way any Greco-Roman philosopher would recommend. “Of many who were condemned, their wives and children shared the same fate; and for those who were sentenced to death, the relations were forbid to put on mourning.” ---------- Can you imagine? Prohibiting family members mourning the death of their loved ones murdered unjustly? “The people were so much elated at his death, that when they first heard the news, they ran up and down the city, some crying out, "Away with Tiberius to the Tiber;" others exclaiming, "May the earth, the common mother of mankind, and the infernal gods, allow him no abode in death, but amongst the wicked." ---------- Good riddance! If I were living in Rome at the time, I’d be running and dancing up and down the city streets celebrating the death of a such a foul, decrepit and heartless emperor. Suetonius available on-line: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/6400/6... (  ) GlennRussell | Feb 16, 2017 | Zeige 3 von 3 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, commonly known as Suetonius (c. 69 - after 122 AD), was a Roman historian belonging to the equestrian order who wrote during the early Imperial era of the Roman Empire.His most important surviving work is a set of biographies of twelve successive Roman rulers, from Julius Caesar to Domitian, entitled De Vita Caesarum. He recorded the earliest accounts of Julius Caesar's epileptic seizures. Other works by Suetonius concern the daily life of Rome, politics, oratory, and the lives of famous writers, including poets, historians, and grammarians. A few of these books have partially survived, but many have been lost.Suetonius describes the early career of Tiberius, which included his command of several Roman armies in Germany. It was his leadership in these German campaigns that convinced Augustus to adopt Tiberius and to make him his heir. According to Suetonius, Tiberius retired at a young age to Rhodes, before returning to Rome some time before the death of Augustus. The ascendance of Tiberius to the throne was possible because the two grandsons that Augustus had died before Augustus, and the last grandson, Postumus Agrippa, although originally designated co-rule with Tiberius was later deemed morally unsound by Augustus.Augustus began a long (and at times successful) tradition of adopting an heir, rather than allowing a son to succeed an emperor. Suetonius quotes from the will Augustus left. Suetonius suggests that not only was Tiberius not thought of highly by Augustus, but Augustus expected Tiberius to fail.After briefly mentioning military and administrative successes, Suetonius tells of perversion, brutality and vice and goes into depth to describe depravities he attributes to Tiberius.Despite the lurid tales, modern history looks upon Tiberius as a successful and competent Emperor[citation needed] who at his death left the state treasury much richer than when his reign began. Thus Suetonius' treatment of the character of Tiberius, like Claudius, must be taken with a pinch of salt.Tiberius died of natural causes. Suetonius describes widespread joy in Rome upon his death. There was a desire to have his body thrown down the Gemonian stairs and into the Tiber River, as this he had done many times previously to others. Tiberius had no living children when he died, although his (probable) natural grandson, Tiberius Julius Caesar Nero (Gemellus), and his adopted grandson, Gaius Caesar Caligula, both survived him. Tiberius designated both as his joint heirs, but seems to have favored Caligula over Gemellus, due to Gemellus' youth. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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With the death of the great Augustus, Tiberius, already in his 50s, became the next Roman Emperor and ruled from 14 AD to 37 AD. In a way this was an unfortunate turn of events for the Roman people since Tiberius, always a dark, gloomy, reclusive man, really did not want the responsibility of being the leader of an entire empire. Predictably, not only does Roman biographer Suetonius outline the family history and overarching accomplishments of Tiberius’s 22 year reign, but provides much color commentary on the character of the man. Here are a few highlights along with my comments:
“He had such an aversion to flattery, that he would never suffer any senator to approach his litter, as he passed the streets in it, either to pay him a civility, or upon business. And when a man of consular rank, in begging his pardon for some offence he had given him, attempted to fall at his feet, he started from him in such haste, that he stumbled and fell.” ---------- Too bad life didn’t leave Tiberius alone, so he could live the last phase of his life in peace and quiet, far from the maddening crowd.
“He reduced the expense of the plays and public spectacles, by diminishing the allowances to actors, and curtailing the number of gladiators.” --------- I’m sure the Roman populous saw their emperor as a supreme killjoy. What was Tiberius thinking? The Roman people loved their comedies, farces, satires, chariot races and especially gladiator fights – the more the merrier. If you want to win the hearts of these people, give the people more plays and bloody games, not less.
“He published an edict against the practice of people's kissing each other when they met.” ---------- It takes a dark, gloomy, morose man to ban kissing. Come on, Tiberius, give us a break.
"A few days after his arrival at Capri, a fisherman coming up to him unexpectedly, when he was desirous of privacy, and presenting him with a large mullet, he ordered the man's face to be scrubbed with the fish; being terrified at the thought of his having been able to creep upon him from the back of the island, over such rugged and steep rocks. The man, while undergoing the punishment, expressing his joy that he had not likewise offered him a large crab which he had also taken, he ordered his face to be farther lacerated with its claws." ---------- Such cruelty. If the fisherman only realized how sadistic Tiberius was, he would have kept his mouth shut and thus avoided having his face lacerated.
"In his retreat at Capri, he also contrived an apartment containing couches, and adapted to the secret practice of abominable lewdness, where he entertained companies of girls and catamites, and assembled from all quarters inventors of unnatural copulations, whom he called Spintriae, who defiled one another in his presence, to inflame by the exhibition the languid appetite. . . . He likewise contrived recesses in woods and groves for the gratification of lust, where young persons of both sexes prostituted themselves in caves and hollow rocks, in the disguise of little Pans and Nymphs." ---------- That’s one way to try to overcome your gloominess – but far from the way any Greco-Roman philosopher would recommend.
“Of many who were condemned, their wives and children shared the same fate; and for those who were sentenced to death, the relations were forbid to put on mourning.” ---------- Can you imagine? Prohibiting family members mourning the death of their loved ones murdered unjustly?
“The people were so much elated at his death, that when they first heard the news, they ran up and down the city, some crying out, "Away with Tiberius to the Tiber;" others exclaiming, "May the earth, the common mother of mankind, and the infernal gods, allow him no abode in death, but amongst the wicked." ---------- Good riddance! If I were living in Rome at the time, I’d be running and dancing up and down the city streets celebrating the death of a such a foul, decrepit and heartless emperor.
Suetonius available on-line: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/6400/6...
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