Also published as: The Lives of the Twelve Caesars

Author: Suetonius Year: 119 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Classic, Biographies, Politics Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads Barns&Noble OpenLibrary LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780140449211 0140449213

De vita Caesarum, known as The Twelve Caesars, is a set of twelve biographies, each about one of the Roman emperors, including one on Julius Caesar. It was written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, commonly referred to as Suetonius, in 121. As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, Suetonius gained access to the imperial archives and used them (along with eye-witness accounts) to produce one of the most colorful biographical works in history. The Twelve Caesars chronicles the public careers and private lives of the men who wielded absolute power over Rome, from the foundation of the empire under Julius Caesar and Augustus, to the decline into depravity and civil war under Nero, and the recovery that came with his successors. A masterpiece of anecdote, wry observation and detailed physical description, The Twelve Caesars presents us with a gallery of vividly drawn - and all too human - individuals. Similar books: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown Witness by Whittaker Chambers Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn Family of Secrets by Russ Baker The Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin Living My Life, Vol. 2 by Emma Goldman Coolidge by Amity Shlaes The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon Days of Fire by Peter Baker Rendezvous with Destiny by Craig Shirley Madison and Jefferson by Andrew Burstein Churchill and America by Martin Gilbert Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution by Stephen F. Cohen The Invisible Bridge by Rick Perlstein White House Years by Henry A. Kissinger American Pharaoh by Adam Cohen What Kind of Nation by James F. Simon Present at the Creation by Dean Acheson