http://100falcons.wordpress.com/2008/03/23/what-romans-wore/ Sat, 26 Dec 2009 10:56:22 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://100falcons.wordpress.com/2008/03/23/what-romans-wore/#comment-167 erikatakacs Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:14:43 +0000 http://100falcons.wordpress.com/?p=105#comment-167 Was Suetonius his contemporary? Actually it kinda goes with his character: he had to make his exit on his own terms. Unbelievable. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- <em>No, Erika, Suetonius was born more than a hundred years after Caesar was assassinated. His book is odd. With Livy and Tacitus you see a clear line. They were glorifying Rome. And Plutarch is a moralist. But Suetonius throws into his biographies the good and the bad without a comment. He even shuffles them together on the same page. Of Caesar he tells the most ugly gossip, which would make you conclude the guy was a monster. But then again he seems to make him into a hero and speak of him with admiration. Very modern, you might conclude--neutrality. Yes, but still you wonder where he stands and which of his anecdotes he doesn't believe. If Caesar was as bad as you see him on the first pages, he was too disgusting to admire.</em> Was Suetonius his contemporary? Actually it kinda goes with his character: he had to make his exit on his own terms. Unbelievable.
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No, Erika, Suetonius was born more than a hundred years after Caesar was assassinated. His book is odd. With Livy and Tacitus you see a clear line. They were glorifying Rome. And Plutarch is a moralist. But Suetonius throws into his biographies the good and the bad without a comment. He even shuffles them together on the same page. Of Caesar he tells the most ugly gossip, which would make you conclude the guy was a monster. But then again he seems to make him into a hero and speak of him with admiration. Very modern, you might conclude–neutrality. Yes, but still you wonder where he stands and which of his anecdotes he doesn’t believe. If Caesar was as bad as you see him on the first pages, he was too disgusting to admire.

]]> http://100falcons.wordpress.com/2008/03/23/what-romans-wore/#comment-164 erikatakacs Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:23:33 +0000 http://100falcons.wordpress.com/?p=105#comment-164 The toga looks very pretty, but very impractical. I'm surprised it lasted so long. Are you serious about Caesar? Did someon write about that? How can someone possibly control their dying moments?? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ <em>Erika: “Then, realizing that they were attacking him dagger in hand from all sides, he covered his head with his toga, while with his left hand he dropped the folds over the lower part of his legs so as to fall with more decency, with his body covered all the way to his feet.” Suetonius, Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Chapter LXXXII. </em> The toga looks very pretty, but very impractical. I’m surprised it lasted so long. Are you serious about Caesar? Did someon write about that? How can someone possibly control their dying moments??
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Erika: “Then, realizing that they were attacking him dagger in hand from all sides, he covered his head with his toga, while with his left hand he dropped the folds over the lower part of his legs so as to fall with more decency, with his body covered all the way to his feet.” Suetonius, Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Chapter LXXXII.

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