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  • The Lives of the Twelve Caesars

    by Suetonius ...
    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, ... 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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  • The Lives of Twelve Caesars - Complete

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

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

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  • Lives of the Caesars

    by Suetonius ...
    Series series 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 ... 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    Written by the great Roman historian Suetonius in the year 121, " The Twelve Caesars" is an extremely important historical document and one of the main sources of knowledge about Roman history.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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    Nero, life of a roman emperor

    by Suetonius, Suetonius ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Waite ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 34 min

    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 ... Read more

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    Caligula, life of a roman emperor

    by Suetonius, Suetonius ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Waite ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 42 min

    Suetonius' most important surviving work is known as the De Vita Caesarum, a set of twelve biographies of the successive Roman rulers. The emperor Caligula was one of the strangest and cruelest rulers that ever lived, and most of what is known about his reign comes from Suetonius. The first six months of his reign appear to have been moderate and successful; but after that, he fell into a spiral ... 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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  • The Twelve Caesars (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. The Lives of the Roman Emperors

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

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  • The Twelve Caesars

    by Suetonius ...
    Translated by J. C. Rolfe ...
    Series series 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 ... 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 Lives of the Twelve Caesars

    Volumes I and II

    by 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 ... Read more

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