Historiography and biography genre in the Vita Caligulae from Suetonius - some impressions

Abstract

This paper presents the reflections and the results of the Scientific Initiation Research about Vita Caligulae (Life of Caligula), from Suetonius (69/70 - 130? a.C.) and his relation to the roman historiography. In our study, we start from the biography of Caligula emperor, named De Vita Caligulae, to analyze those generic aspects of the biography in the way to notice its features and how this biography is inserted in the historiographical roman tradition, to be known, as a way to write history or as a different genre. During the research, besides the translation of the biography, we realized a brief study about the roman historiography, as well as some considerations about the textual and stylish aspects of Suetonius.