Josiah Osgood, PhD
Josiah Osgood is professor of classics at Georgetown University. Osgood received a BA, MA, MPhil, and PhD from Yale University. His teaching and research cover many areas of Roman history and Latin literature, with a special focus on the fall of the Roman Republic. He is author of Caesar's Legacy: Civil War and the Emergence of the Roman Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2006), Claudius Caesar: Image and Power in the Early Roman Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2011), and A Suetonius Reader: Selections from the Lives of the Caesars and the Life of Horace (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2011).
Books by Josiah Osgood, PhD
A Suetonius Reader: Selections from the Lives of the Caesars and the Life of Horace
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- 978-0-86516-716-2
The popular appeal of Suetonius' Lives of the Caesars is obvious. Who would not thrill reading about the great Julius Caesar's delight in the Senate's bestowal of the right to wear a laurel wreath on all occasions—because it covered his baldness? Or that the Divine Augustus had rotten teeth and wore special platform shoes to make himself look taller?
