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In The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Suetonius offers an unfiltered portrait of power, ambition, excess, and intrigue at the very core of the Roman Empire. From the rise of Julius Caesar to the reign of Domitian, these vivid biographies uncover the private lives and public deeds of Rome’s most iconic rulers. Far from a conventional history, this masterpiece blends political narrative with scandal, rumor, and intimate detail...

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Arcturus Classics

Since the city was not adorned as the dignity of the empire demanded ... [Augustus] so beautified it that he could justly boast that he had found it built of brick and left it in marble.Over the course of the 1st century AD,the Roman Empire achieved never before seen glories. In Lives of the Caesars, the Roman historian Suetonius recounts the story of the rise of the Roman Empire through the colourful characters of its emperors. By turns courageou...

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Suetonius

As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, Suetonius gained access to the imperial archives and used them (along with eye-witness accounts) to produce one of the most colourful biographical works in history. The Twelve Caesars chronicles the public careers and private lives of the men who wielded absolute power over Rome, from the foundation of the empire under Julius Caesar and Augustus, to the decline into depravity and civil war under Nero, and the recovery that came with his successo...

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Suetonius

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Alexander Thomson

De vita Caesarum, known as The Twelve Caesars, is a set of twelve biographies, each about one of the Roman emperors, including one on Julius Caesar. It was written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, commonly referred to as Suetonius, in 121. Considered highly significant in antiquity, The Twelve Caesars has remained a major source of Roman history.

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Suetonius

Written by the great Roman historian Suetonius in the year 121, " The Twelve Caesars" is an extremely important historical document and one of the main sources of knowledge about Roman history. In this magnificent work, which covers the period from the rise to the fall of the Roman Empire, we get to know the intimacy of the life of each of the twelve Caesars: their ancestors, their military campaigns, the events that led them to power and death, as well as...

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Suetonius, Suetonius

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Jonathan Waite

Suetonius' most important surviving work is known as the De Vita Caesarum, a set of twelve biographies of the successive Roman rulers. The emperor Nero's reign is one weird tale of sexual depravity and extravagant sadism. He was a gifted musician, and is said to have given great concerts of which attendance was compulsory; women were said to have given birth during the performance, and men were driven to fake death to escape. Nero kicked his pregnant wife to death and then had a young boy ...

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Suetonius, Orla Henswick

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J. C. Rolfe

The 12 Caesars is Suetonius's vivid collective biography of Rome's rulers from Julius Caesar to Domitian, a work that fuses political history, court gossip, moral judgment, and antiquarian detail. Rather than constructing a continuous annalistic narrative, Suetonius arranges each life thematically—ancestry, public career, private habits, virtues, vices, omens, and death—creating portraits at once documentary and theatrical. Written in the early second century CE, it belongs to the Roman bi...

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Suetonius, Orla Henswick

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J. C. Rolfe

The Twelve Caesars is a foundational work of imperial biography, tracing the lives of Julius Caesar and the first eleven Roman emperors from Augustus to Domitian. Suetonius writes not as a continuous political historian but as an anatomist of power, arranging public deeds, private habits, virtues, vices, omens, scandals, and memorable sayings into sharply profiled portraits. Its style is concise, anecdotal, and documentary, standing between Roman historiography and moral biography, and off...

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Suetonius

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J. C. Rolfe

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Dover Thrift Editions: History

One of antiquity's great historical resources, this chronicle by an ancient Roman scholar portrays the lives and reigns of Julius Caesar and his immediate successors. Suetonius, who served as private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, combines research from the imperial archives with firsthand accounts of the rulers' public and private lives. His dramatic narrative, delivered in a straightforward manner, abounds in tales of sex, violence, and betrayal.Written in A.D. 121, The Twe...

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Penguin Little Black Classics

'Because of his baldness and hairiness, he announced it was a capital offence for anyone either to look down on him as he passed or to mention goats in any context.'The biography of the brutal, crazed and incestuous Roman Emperor Caligula, who tried to appoint his own horse consul.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world...

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Suetonius

The Lives of the Twelve Caesars by 2nd Century Roman historian Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus is our key primary source for biographical information of the first twelve rulers of ancient Rome - Emperors Julius Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian, Titus and Domitian.This new digital edition of The Lives of the Twelve Caesars includes an image gallery.

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Suetonius

Written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus in 121 AD while he was the personal secretary to emperor Hadrian, “The Twelve Caesars” is a series of twelve biographies of Roman rulers beginning with Julius Caesar and ending with Domitian. The tales of Rome’s emperors are deeply personal and informative, while also entertaining and often filled with drama. Suetonius included invaluable descriptions of the rulers’ public and private lives, physical appearances, family heritages, and daily personal h...