BA(Hons) ANU PhD Newcastle, Australia

Research Interests: Suetonius; Ancient Biography

Dr Phoebe Garrett has taught Latin and Ancient Greek at the Australian National University and the University of New England (Australia) and has also been a researcher at the Australian National Dictionary Centre. Her research centres on the Roman biographer Suetonius, especially structural features in ancient biography and questions of genre and genre bending in the ancient world, and her recent articles include ‘Ancestry and family identity in Suetonius’ Caesars’ in Classical Quarterly (2021) and ‘Structure and persuasion in Suetonius’ Caesars’ in Ramus (2018). Phoebe is the co-editor, with Pauline Duchêne, of the volume Suetonius: the fragments (Liverpool University Press, 2025). She is currently working on a monograph, Reading Suetonius’ Caesars: rumour and rubric in the second century.

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