Lives of the twelve Caesars / Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus.
By: Suetonius
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BookSeries: Wordsworth classics of world literature: Publisher: Ware, Hertfordshire : Wordsworth Editions, 1997Description: xiii, 364 p. ; 20 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 185326475X.Subject(s): Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.DDDC classification: 937.070922 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 937.070922 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00070291 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Translated by H.M. Bird With an Introduction by Tamsyn Barton.
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.
Bibliography: (page xiii).
Caius Julius Caesar -- D. Octavius Caesar Augustus -- Tiberius Nero Caesar -- Caius Caesar Caligula -- Tiberius Claudius Drusus Caesar -- Nero Claudius Caesar -- Servius Sulpicius Galba -- Marcus Salvius Otho -- Aulus Vitellius -- T. Flavius Vespasianus Augustus -- Titus Flavius Vespasianus Augustus -- Titus Flavius Domitianus.