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.

ISBN 185326475X   Pages 384 ISBN13 9781853264757 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Wordsworth Editions Ltd   Weight (grammes) 249 Imprint Wordsworth Editions Ltd   Published in Herts Format Paperback   Series title Wordsworth Classics of World Literature Publication date 05 Mar 1997   Height (mm) 198 Translator H. M. Bird   Width (mm) 129 Writer of introduction Tamsyn Barton   Spine width (mm) 20 DEWEY 937.07092   Academic level General DEWEY edition DC21

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