The Worst First Citizen
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ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-oberlin16256279424012762021-08-03T07:17:44Z The Worst First Citizen Passannante, Sarah Nicole Classical Studies Gender Studies Gender History Nero Rome Suetonius Lives of the Caesars Imperial Rome Gender Anal penetration Oral penetration Galba Otho Domitian Vitellius Historiography Biography Masculinity Tropes Bibliography Sporus Pythagoras Sexuality In his telling of the Life of Nero, Suetonius crafted an image of an archetypical tyrant that he then used throughout his other Lives. The princeps was Rome's premier citizen--as such, they needed to perform all aspects of citizenship as well as possible, especially in regards to successfully performing masculinity. Therefore, to be a good emperor was to embody male virtue; to be a bad emperor was to be effeminate and lack virtue. Suetonius crafted a rhetorical trope of the unmanly tyrant using his portrayal of Nero. This is seen most clearly in Nero 29, where Nero was sexually passive to a freedman, had public intercourse, and performed oral sex, among other improprieties. This trope was then used in the Lives of Galba, Otho, Vitellius, and Domitian to cast them as unqualified and tyrannical. 2021-07-29 English text Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1625627942401276 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1625627942401276 unrestricted This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: some rights reserved. It is licensed for use under a Creative Commons license. Specific terms and permissions are available from this document's record in the OhioLINK ETD Center. |
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