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The Twelve Caesars (The Lives of the Twelve Caesars #1-12)

Suetonius

Paperback | Pages: 363 pages

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Original Title:	De vita Caesarum
ISBN:	0140449213 (ISBN13: 9780140449211)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Lives of the Twelve Caesars #1-12
Characters:	Nero (emperor), Caligula, Lucius Livius Ocella Servius Sulpicius Galba, Titus Flavius Domitianus, Marcus Salvius Otho, Tiberius Claudius Caesar, Titus (emperor), Titus Flavius Vespasianus, Aulus Vitellius, Augustus, Julius Caesar

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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 colorful biographical works in history. The Twelve Caesars chronicles the public careers and private lives of the men who wielded absolute power over Rome, from the foundation of the empire under Julius Caesar and Augustus, to the decline into depravity and civil war under Nero, and the recovery that came with his successors. A masterpiece of anecdote, wry observation and detailed physical description, The Twelve Caesars presents us with a gallery of vividly drawn — and all too human — individuals. Robert Graves's celebrated translation, sensitively revised by Michael Grant, captures all the wit and immediacy of Suetonius' original.

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Title	:	The Twelve Caesars (The Lives of the Twelve Caesars #1-12)
Author	:	Suetonius
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Revised Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 363 pages
Published	:	May 6th 2003 by Penguin Classics (first published 121)
Categories	:	History. Classics. Nonfiction. Biography. Ancient History

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Ratings: 4.05 From 15267 Users | 581 Reviews

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This Roman bedtime reading gives the reader a mixed experience. The length of the lives is uneven - the first three lives in the Robert Graves (he'd go on to recycle much of the material here into his novels I Claudius and Claudius the God) translation alone make up half the book, the division of each life into public (civil and military exploits), and private parts (adventures in bedroom and dining room) works against presenting each life as an organic whole and Suetonius' sense of cause and

The mad, the bad and the dangerous to know. I don't care if he's a gossip. It's hilarious, and I gluttoned on the worst bits in my teens.

this is one of the must-read classics for anyone interested in Roman history - have read it almost 40 years ago now for the first time but looked through it many times since

Reading this book makes me kind of thankful that the sociopaths who we choose to govern us are relatively harmless men with only strange dreams of imperialism and desires for fame, riches, and adulation. Sure we have a Vice President who shot a friend in the face and who brazenly admits to authorizing acts that make him a war criminal, and yes there are Greek bastards who have made a living off of sanctioning genocide for their own twisted ends, and this is just naming two high points in the

One of those classics that is a genuine, even salacious pleasure to read, and the historical basis for Robert Graves's "I, Claudius", "The Twelve Caesars" covers the first twelve emperors of Ancient Rome (Including Julius Caesar, though Augustus was the first officially); the Julio-Claudians through Nero, his very brief successors Galba,Otho and Vitellius (in the tumultuous 'year of three Emperors', A.D. 69), and finally the Flavians Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian. Secretary to Hadrian,

Stranger than any fiction...the chapter on Caligula is truly disturbing.

Julius Caesar the catamite of King of Bithnyia?? Augustus singeing off his leg hair with hot walnut shells!! Caligula's seductive maiden dance!! Oh my! Simply delicious!