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
Manuscript of De vita Caesarum, 1477
Bust of Pompey in the Residenz, Munich
Bust of Augustus, Glyptothek, Munich
Bust of Tiberius
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
The Twelve Caesars
…Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian. The Twelve Caesars was written in 121 AD by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (called "Suetonius" by scholars) while he served as a personal secretary to the emperor Hadrian. Suetonius dedicated the work to his friend Gaius…
19th-century etching of Suetonius
Inscription dedicated to Suetonius from his hometown Annaba (now in Algeria), Museum of Hippo Regius, ca. 125 AD