Homer

Role: poet · First appears: Caligula 34

Life events

• Caligula considered suppressing Homer’s poems.(Caligula 34)
  • With: Caligula
  • “He had thoughts too of suppressing Homer’s poems:”

Caligula 34

• enemies with Caligula “He had thoughts too of suppressing Homer’s poems: ‘For why,’ said he, ‘may not I do what Plato has done before me, who excluded him from his commonwealth?’”
• enemies with Plato “‘For why,’ said he, ‘may not I do what Plato has done before me, who excluded him from his commonwealth?’”

Also listed in Other Figures — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of The Lives of the Twelve Caesars. Made with Rho MD.