Țesând o biografie: Suetonius, Divus Iulius
Weaving a Biography: Suetonius’ Divus Iulius

Summary/Abstract: When reading Julius Caesar’s biography written by Suetonius, one is struck by the multitude of voices merged by the author in his effort to create a detailed and multifaceted portrait of the dictator. The paper’s aim is to analyze how these disparate voices were interwoven by Suetonius to create a cogent and close-knit narrative. A lexical and grammatical study of some of these instances will reveal how the views, accounts, and comments of others - be they friends or (and) foes of Caesar, undetermined and unnamed contemporaries, other authors - were intertwined, connected, and inserted, by means of reported speech, into this complex biographical tapestry. The morphological means (primarily nouns and verbs) will be taken into consideration, but the attention will be mainly focused on the syntactic mechanisms (with the accusative and infinitive construction playing an important role) by which these diverse threads are harmoniously woven into the narrative by Suetonius.

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