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...
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...
Suetonius' classic treatise on the lives of the first twelve emperors of the Roman Empire.
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...
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)...
"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...
The Twelve Caesars - Suetonius . A translation into English by A. S. Kline . Published in entirety with in-depth name index. In the Twelve Caesars ( De Vita Caesarum ) Suetonius provides us with biographies of Julius Caesar and the eleven Roman Emperors who followed him. The...
"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...
GAYO SUETONIO TRANQUILO. Tras el descubrimiento de una placa conmemorativa en pleno siglo XX, se ha sabido que naci? en Hiponia, actual Annaba, Argelia, hacia el a?o 70 a.J. y que muri? despu?s del a?o 126. Pertenec?a a una familia castrense acomodada, pues su padre, Suetonius...