Lives of the Twelve Caesars (Wadsworth Classics of World Literature) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for Lives of the Twelve Caesars This text by Suetonius, a Latin biographer, is a major source for the period from Julius Caesar to Domitian. It sets out a great range of aspects illuminating the emperors' characters, their habits - from table to bedchamber - their intrigues, loves and their deaths.
Full description- Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
- Published: 05 August 1997
- Format: Paperback 384 pages
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- Categories: Biography: Historical, Political & Military | Literary Essays | Contemporary Fiction | Classical History / Classical Civilisation
- ISBN 13: 9781853264757 ISBN 10: 185326475X
- Sales rank: 18,210
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Full description for Lives of the Twelve Caesars
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 detail a great range of aspects illuminating the emperor's characters, their habits, from table to bedchamber - their intrigues, their loves and their deaths. Himself a court official, he quotes from a variety of sources, from the official and private documents as well as from old anecdotes, gossip, songs and jokes, giving an unparalleled oblique view of his subjects. Long familiar to students of classics, he found a new audience as the main source for Robert Graves' novels and the subsequent television series I, Claudius.
