Reading later lives · 后世传记

scholarly-interpretation

Pelling places Plutarch’s and Suetonius’ biographies well after Caesar’s lifetime and treats their explanatory aims as a research problem.

Evidence limit: Later testimony may preserve earlier material, but that does not make the surviving biography contemporary eyewitness evidence.

Christopher Pelling, “The First Biographers: Plutarch and Suetonius,” in Griffin (2009), p. 252. Publisher record