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  • The Twelve Caesars

    by Robert Graves, Suetonius ...
    Series series
    'Suetonius, in holding up a mirror to those Caesars of diverting legend, reflects not only them but ourselves: half-tempted creatures, whose great moral task is to hold in balance the angel and the monster within' GORE VIDALAs private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, the scholar Suetonius had access to the imperial archives and used them (along with eyewitness accounts) to produce one of the most ... Read more

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  • The Lives of the Caesars

    by Tom Holland, Suetonius ...
    Translated by Tom Holland ...
    Series series A Penguin Classics Hardcover
    **A masterful new translation of Suetonius' renowned biography of the twelve Caesars, bringing to life a portrait of the first Roman emperors in stunning detailA Penguin Classic**The ancient Roman empire was the supreme arena, where emperors had no choice but to fight, to thrill, to dazzle. To rule as a Caesar was to stand as an actor upon the great stage of the world. No biographies invite us ... Read more

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  • The Lives of the Twelve Caesars

    by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus ...
    The Twelve Caesars, is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus. The work, written in AD 121 during the reign of the emperor Hadrian, was the most popular work of Suetonius, at that time Hadrian's personal secretary, and is the largest among his surviving writings. The Twelve Caesars is considered very ... Read more

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  • The Lives Of The Twelve Caesars: (De Vita Caesarum) (Mobi Classics)

    by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus,Alexander Thomson (Translator) ...
    Revised and corrected by T.Forester, EsqDe vita Caesarum (Latin, direct translation: On the Life of the Caesars) commonly known as The Twelve Caesars, is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus.The work, written in 121 during the reign of the emperor Hadrian, was the most popular work of Suetonius, at that ... Read more

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  • Caligula

    by Suetonius ...
    Series series 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 ... Read more

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  • THE TWELVE CAESARS - Suetonius

    by 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 ... Read more

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  • The Lives of the Twelve Caesars

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    by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus ...
    The Twelve Caesars, is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus. The work, written in AD 121 during the reign of the emperor Hadrian, was the most popular work of Suetonius, at that time Hadrian's personal secretary, and is the largest among his surviving writings. The Twelve Caesars is considered very ... Read more

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  • The Lives of the Twelve Caesars: Julius Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho , Vitellius, Vespasian, Titus, Domitian, Grammarians and Rhetoricians and Lives of the Poets

    by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus ...
    C. Suetonius Tranquillus was the son of a Roman knight who commanded a legion, on the side of Otho, at the battle which decided the fate of the empire in favour of Vitellius. From incidental notices in the following History, we learn that he was born towards the close of the reign of Vespasian, who died in the year 79 of the Christian era. He lived till the time of Hadrian, under whose ... Read more

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  • The Twelve Caesars

    by Suetonius ...
    Translated by 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. ... Read more

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  • Ancient Biography: Plutarch's Lives and Suetonius' Lives of the 12 Caesars

    by Plutarch, Suetonius ...
    This file includes both Plutarch's Lives (all 50 biographies and 18 comparisons) and "Lives of the 12 Caesars" by Suetonius. According to Wikipedia: "Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, commonly called Parallel Lives or Plutarch's Lives, is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings, written in the late 1st century. ... Read more

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  • The Lives of the Twelve Caesars

    by C. Suetonius Tranquillus ...
    The Lives of the Twelve Caesars is a biographical work by the Roman historian, Suetonius. It is a collection of twelve biographies of the Roman emperors, from Julius Caesar to Domitian, covering the period from 49 BC to AD 96. The book is divided into chapters, with each chapter focusing on the life and reign of one of the twelve emperors.Suetonius was a secretary and adviser to the emperor ... Read more

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  • THE 12 CAESARS (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. The Lives of the Roman Emperors

    by Suetonius, Orla Henswick ...
    Translated by 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 ... Read more

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