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An essential primary source on Roman history and a fascinating achievement of scholarship covering a critical period in the Empire

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. Suetonius composed his material from a variety of sources, without much... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

Suetonius' classic treatise on the lives of the first twelve emperors of the Roman Empire.

An essential primary source on Roman history and a fascinating achievement of scholarship covering a critical period in the Empire As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, the scholar Suetonius had access to the imperial archives and used them (along with eyewitness accounts)... Read Full Overview

Translated by Robert Graves and Revised with an Introduction by Michael Grant.

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 into the lives of the Caesars more vividly or intimately than... Read Full Overview

La Vida de los doce césares es una obra extraordinaria en muchos aspectos. Se cree que el historiador romano Cayo Tranquilo Suetonio la publicó en torno al año 121 d.C., durante el reinado del emperador Adriano. Suetonio fue capaz de crear una vivaz caracterización de los doce... Read Full Overview

The Lives of the Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, translated by J. C. Rolfe, is a classic work that chronicles the lives of the first twelve Roman emperors, from Julius Caesar to Domitian. Suetonius provides detailed and often vivid accounts of their reigns, personalities, and scandals,... Read Full Overview

Covering the Roman rulers from Julius Caesar to Domitian, this remains one of the richest and most fascinating of all Latin histories. Suetonius gathered much of his information from eye-witnesses, checking his facts carefully and quoting conflicting evidence without bias. But... Read Full Overview

Las vidas de los doce C sares, son biograf as de doce C sares, desde Julio C sar hasta Domiciano. Si bien se ha criticado el exceso de an cdotas escabrosas, su ingenuidad y el inter s que despierta la vida privada de los C sares han hecho que su obra no haya dejado nunca de interesar... Read Full Overview

"Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system," Suetonius.

"Upon the whole, he added nothing to his own happiness by all the dangers, the fatigues, and the... Read Full Overview