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A contemporary biography of the first twelve Caesars of the Roman Empire, including Julius Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Vespasian, Titus and Domitian. The author Suetonius was personal secretary to the Emperor Hadrian.A contemporary biography of the first twelve Caesars of t... More

Memoirs rather than history, lives rather than events; includes Lives of the Poets, Grammarians and HistoriansMemoirs rather than history, lives rather than events; includes Lives of the Poets, Grammarians and Historians... More

The Lives of the Caesars include the biographies of Julius Caesar and the eleven subsequent emperors: Augustus, Tiberius, Gaius Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitelius, Vespasian, Titus, Domitian. It was Robert Graves's primary reference source when he was writing I, Claudius. Suetonius comp... More

Suetonius' biographical sketches of the teachers of 'grammar' and rhetoric survive only in part and are fairly brief; yet it would be difficult to name another text of similar scope that is a more productive resource for the study of Roman cultural history in the classical period. For the early hist... More

Written during the reign of Hadrian, by Hadrian personal secretary, Suetonius, "The Twelve Caesars" was the most popular and longest of Suetonius's surviving works. Beginning with the life of Julius Caesar and continuing with the first eleven emperors of Rome who followed him, "The Twelve Caesars" i... More

This volume contains "The Lives of Illustrius Men" and Books V-VIII or "The Lives of the Caesars."This volume contains "The Lives of Illustrius Men" and Books V-VIII or "The Lives of the Caesars."... More

Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (c70-c140), also known as Suetonius, was a prominent Roman historian and biographer. He is mainly remembered as the author of De Vita Caesarum (Lives of the Caesars, best known in English as The Twelve Caesars), his only extant work. The Twelve Caesars, probably written i... More

Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (c70-c140), also known as Suetonius, was a prominent Roman historian and biographer. He is mainly remembered as the author of De Vita Caesarum (Lives of the Caesars, best known in English as The Twelve Caesars), his only extant work. The Twelve Caesars, probably written i... More