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Caligula: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #17 by Suetonius
Category: Classic Fiction
'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.
How to Be a Bad Emperor by Suetonius; Josiah Osgood (Introduction by)
Category: Humour | Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Ser.
What would Caligula do? What the worst Roman emperors can teach us about how not to lead If recent history has taught us anything, it's that sometimes the best guide to leadership is the negative example. But that insight is hardly new. Nearly 2,000 years ago, Suetonius wrote Lives of the Caesars, perh ...Show more
Lives Of The Caesars by Suetonius
Category: History | Series: Oxford World's Classics
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 concern for their reliabili ...Show more
Suetonius - Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, and Vitellius, Vespasian, Titus, Domitian - Lives of Illustrious Men: Grammarians and Rhetoricians, Poets (Terence, Virgil, Horace, Tibullus, Persius, Lucan), Lives of Pliny the Elder and Passienus Crispus by J. C. Rolfe (Edited and Translated by); K. R. Bradley (Introduction by); Suetonius
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Suetonius (C. Suetonius Tranquillus, born ca. 70 CE), son of a military tribune, was at first an advocate and a teacher of rhetoric, but later became the emperor Hadrian's private secretary, 119-121. He dedicated to C. Septicius Clarus, prefect of the praetorian guard, his Lives of the Caesars. After th ...Show more
Suetonius: Vol 1 by Suetonius
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Suetonius (C. Suetonius Tranquillus, born ca. 70 CE), son of a military tribune, was at first an advocate and a teacher of rhetoric, but later became the emperor Hadrian's private secretary, 119121. He dedicated to C. Septicius Clarus, prefect of the praetorian guard, his "Lives of the Caesars." After ...Show more
The Lives of the Caesars by Suetonius
Category: Classic Fiction
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, a ...Show more
The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius
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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 abso ...Show more
The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius; Robert Graves (Translator)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguins Ser.
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 ha ...Show more
The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Based on eyewitness accounts and his own unlimited access to the Emperor Hadrian's Imperial archives, the scholar Suetonius wrote a sweeping account of the lives of twelve of Rome's most powerful emperors. From the empire's most shining examples of ruling competency, such as Julius Caesar and Augustus, ...Show more
Twelve Caesars by Suetonius
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
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 detai ...Show more
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