Suetonius Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Other works=== ====Partly extant==== *''De Viris Illustribus'' ("On Famous Men" — in the field of literature), to which belong: **''De Illustribus Grammaticis'' ("Lives of the [[Grammarian (Greco-Roman)|Grammarians]]"; 20 brief lives, apparently complete) **''De Claris Rhetoribus'' ("Lives of the Rhetoricians"; 5 brief lives out of an original 16 survive) **''De Poetis'' ("Lives of the Poets"; the life of [[Virgil]], as well as fragments from the lives of [[Terence]], [[Horace]] and [[Marcus Annaeus Lucanus|Lucan]], survive) **''De Historicis'' ("Lives of the historians"; a brief life of [[Pliny the Elder]] is attributed to this work) *''Peri ton par' Hellesi paidion'' ("Greek Games") *''Peri blasphemion'' ("Greek Terms of Abuse") The two last works were written in Greek. They apparently survive in part in the form of extracts in later Greek glossaries. ====Lost works==== The following list of Suetonius's lost works is from [[Robert Graves]]'s foreword to his translation of the ''Twelve Caesars.''<ref>{{cite book |author=Suetonius |translator-last=Graves |translator-first=Robert |translator-link=Robert Graves |title=Suetonius: The Twelve Caesars |year=1957 |publisher=[[Penguin Books]] |location=Hamondsworth, Middlesex, England |page=7 |edition=1st |chapter=Foreword |editor-last=Rives |editor-first=James |url=https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/35589/the-twelve-caesars/}}</ref> *''Royal Biographies'' *''Lives of Famous Whores'' *''Roman Manners and Customs'' *''The Roman Year'' *''The Roman Festivals'' *''Roman Dress'' *''Greek Games'' *''Offices of State'' *''On Cicero's Republic'' *''Physical Defects of Mankind'' *''Methods of Reckoning Time'' *''An Essay on Nature'' *''Greek Objurations'' *''Grammatical Problems'' *''Critical Signs Used in Books'' The introduction to the Loeb edition of Suetonius, translated by J. C. Rolfe, with an introduction by K. R. Bradley, references the ''[[Suda]]'' with the following titles: *''On Greek games'' *''On Roman spectacles and games'' *''On the Roman year'' *''On critical signs in books'' *''On Cicero's Republic'' *''On names and types of clothes'' *''On insults'' *''On Rome and its customs and manners'' The volume adds other titles not testified within the Suda. *''On famous courtesans'' *''On kings'' *''On the institution of offices'' *''On physical defects'' *''On weather signs'' *''On names of seas and rivers'' *''On names of winds'' Two other titles may also be collections of some of the aforelisted: *''Pratum (Miscellany)'' *''On various matters'' Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page