Lives of the twelve Caesars
Suetonius, chronicler of the extraordinary personalities of the first dynasties to rule the Roman Empire, was the greatest Latin biographer. His colourful work, 'Lives of the twelve Caesars', is, along with Tacitus, the major source for the period from Julius Caesar to Domitian. He sets out in vivid detail a great range of aspects illuminating the emperors' characters, their habits, from table to bedchamber - their intrigues, their loves and their deaths. Long familiar to students of classics, he found a new audience as the main source for Robert Graves' novels and the subsequent television series 'I, Claudius.'
Print Book, English, ©1997
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