# Suetonius

> He gave us the emperors as they actually were - vain, paranoid, brilliant, depraved - in prose that reads like palace gossip written by someone who had the files. Two thousand years later, The Twelve Caesars remains the most vivid record of Rome's first dynasty.

*Late 1st/early 2nd-century Roman historian*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/suetonius

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Born:** 70
- **Died:** 126
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus wrote during the early Imperial era, when the memory of Rome's first emperors was still close enough to sting. His De vita Caesarum tracked twelve successive rulers from Julius Caesar to Domitian, building biographies that mixed state record with bedroom scandal. He wrote other works too - studies of daily Roman life, politics, oratory, the lives of poets and historians and grammarians - but most of those have been lost or survive only in fragments. What remains is the Caesars: a set of portraits so specific and unsparing that they became the template for how power gets remembered.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 66.6 / 100
- **Momentum:** 2.1 / 100  (trend: FALLING)
- **Historical depth:** 25.8 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 7.6 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 65.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 65.0 / 100

## Platforms
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1306711/ (@nm1306711)

## Topics
#Academics, #Writer / Author, #Literature, #History, #Poetry, #Ancient History

## Sources
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- [Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus](https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaius_Suetonius_Tranquillus)
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- [苏埃托尼乌斯](https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8B%8F%E5%9F%83%E6%89%98%E5%B0%BC%E4%B9%8C%E6%96%AF)
- [Suétone](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Su%C3%A9tone)
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- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10133)
- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suetonius)
- [Pantheon 2.0](https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Suetonius)
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