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 to produce one of the most colourful biographical works in history. The main characters of this history, classics story are nero, caligula. The lives of the twelve caesars, to which are added, his lives of the grammarians, rhetoricians. The work, probably written around 121ad in the reign of hadrian, therefore covers the crucial and highly eventful period of roman history from the end of the republic to the reign of domitian. Graves wields a rich command of english vocabulary to capture the subtle nuances of suetonius original latin words. Enjoy this book on your ereader and in the format you prefer. From the letters of suetonius close friend pliny the younger we learn that he practiced briefly at the bar, avoided political life, and became chief secretary to the emperor hadrian ad11738. Jan 21, 2008 an essential primary source on roman history, suetonius the twelve caesars is a fascinating achievement of scholarship covering a critical period in the empire. The work, written in ad 121 during the reign of the emperor hadrian, was the most popular work of suetonius, at that time hadrians personal secretary, and is the largest among his surviving.
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