Suetonius
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Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, commonly referred to as Suetonius, was a Roman historian who wrote during the early Imperial era of the Roman Empire. His most important surviving work is De vita Caesarum
19th-century etching of Suetonius
Inscription dedicated to Suetonius from his hometown Annaba (now in Algeria), Museum of Hippo Regius, ca. 125 AD
The Twelve Caesars
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De vita Caesarum, commonly known as The Twelve Caesars or The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire during the Prin
Suetonius
…historian who wrote during the early Imperial era of the Roman Empire. His most important surviving work is De vita Caesarum, commonly known in English as The Twelve Caesars, a set of biographies of 12 successive Roman rulers from Julius Caesar to Domitian. Other works by Suetonius concerned the daily life of Rome, politics…
Manuscript of De vita Caesarum, 1477
Bust of Pompey in the Residenz, Munich
Bust of Augustus, Glyptothek, Munich
Bust of Tiberius