Tristan Power
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| Born | 1980 (age 43–44) Manhattan, New York City |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Reading |
| Occupation | Classical Scholar |
Tristan Power is an American classical scholar. He has taught Classics at the University of Reading, Syracuse University, and Columbia University. He specializes in Latin literature, particularly the biographer Suetonius.[1] He has also published on Catullus, Pliny the Younger, and James Joyce.
Career
He received his PhD from the University of Reading (2008) where he taught as Lecturer in Classics (2004–2006). He later held the positions of Assistant Professor of Latin at Syracuse University (2009) and Lecturer in Classics at Columbia University (2017–2018).
He has historically dated the publications of Suetonius' De viris illustribus to c. AD 105–110 and the entirety of his De vita Caesarum to c. AD 119–122,[2] and has established that Suetonius did not use Tacitus as a source.[3]
His scholarship on Suetonius' literary aspects has been called a "new turn in Suetonian criticism,"[4] and his Collected Papers on Suetonius was described in a review as follows:
This volume's best asset, in fact, is the breadth of its coverage: far from sticking to the popular Lives of the Caesars, [Power] ranges into debates across the Suetonian corpus ... [Power's] near encyclopaedic knowledge of Suetonius' work and the scholarly conversation surrounding it has been essential in pushing the conversation forward.[5]
He has also emended the texts of Catullus and Pliny the Younger, as well as discovered sources for James Joyce's Ulysses, including the English verse translation of Homer's Odyssey by William Cowper.
Selected publications
- Collected Papers on Suetonius. Routledge, 2021.
- "A Textual Note on Catullus 61.169." Mnemosyne 74, 2021, 508–11.
- "The Vines at Pliny's Estate (Letters 2.17.15)." Latomus 80, 2021, 691–93.
- "Joyce's Ulysses Library." Studies in Bibliography 60, 2018, 229–50.
- Suetonius the Biographer: Studies in Roman Lives. Edited with R. K. Gibson. Oxford University Press, 2014.
References
- ↑ Pausch, D. (2020). "Types of Life-Writing in Suetonius' Lives of the Caesars and Illustrious Men". In De Temmerman, K. (ed.). The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Biography. Oxford University Press. pp. 200–202. ISBN 978-0-19-870301-3.
- ↑ Wardle, D. (2014). Suetonius: Life of Augustus. Oxford University Press. pp. 3–4. ISBN 978-0-19-968646-9.
- ↑ Ash, R., ed. (2018). Tacitus: Annals Book XV. Cambridge University Press. p. 7. ISBN 978-0-521-26939-1.
- ↑ MacRae, D. E. (2015). "Invitus invitam: A Window Allusion in Suetonius' Titus". Classical Quarterly. 65 (1): 417.
- ↑ Hanson, W. (2022). "Review of Collected Papers on Suetonius". Classical Review. 72 (2): 556–57.
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