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

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

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

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

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

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