The Biography of Caesar: a study about the prodigia in Suetone

• Grant number: 08/11162-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: July 01, 2009
• End date: December 31, 2009
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Classical Literatures
• Principal Investigator: Andrea Lúcia Dorini de Oliveira Carvalho Rossi
• Grantee: Renata Cintra
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Letras (FCL-ASSIS). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Assis. Assis , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The project intends to analyze the Biography of Cesar in the workmanship of Suetone and the role of the prodigia in the construction of the emperor personage present in "De Vita Caesarum". For this, we will use the methodology of Bakhtin that considers a systematization of the Sueton biographies based in the concepts family-prodigy-laudatio.