Suetonius
Late 1st/early 2nd-century Roman historian · Writers · Lived 70 to 126 · aged 56
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Something wrong?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.
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Caius Suetonius Tranquillus
De vita Caesarum, by Suetonius, edited by Gianantonio Campano, printed by Johannes Philippus de Lignamine, Rome, August 1470 - Morgan Library & Museum - New York City - DSC06583
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MBA Lyon Exposition Claude - Suetone Tranquile De la vie des XII Cesars (BML 321916)
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Opera. Et in eum commentarius, exhibente Joanne Schildio. Editio quartaAbout this person
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.
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