1. Suetonius - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Gaius suetonius Tranquillus (ca. 69/75 after 130), also known as suetonius, was a prominent Roman historian and biographer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suetonius

Suetonius From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search This article is about the Roman historian. For the Roman general who put down the rebellion of Boudica, see Gaius Suetonius Paulinus Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (ca. - after ), also known as Suetonius , was a prominent Roman historian and biographer. Contents Life Works Twelve Caesars Other works ... edit Life Suetonius was born the son of Suetonius Laetus, who probably came from Hippo Regius Annaba Algeria ). Laetus was an equestrian who served and took part in the first Battle of Bedriacum for the Emperor Otho and against the future Emperor Vitellius in Suetonius was a close friend to Senator and letter-writer Pliny the Younger . Pliny describes him as "quiet and studious, a man dedicated to writing." Pliny helped him buy a small property in Italy and interceded with the Emperor Trajan to grant Suetonius immunities usually granted to a father of three, the ius trium liberorum , because his marriage was childless. Through Pliny, Suetonius came into favour with Trajan and Hadrian Suetonius served on Pliny’s staff when Pliny was Proconsul of Bithynia Pontus (northern Asia Minor ) between and . Under Trajan he served as secretary of studies (precise functions are uncertain) and director of Imperial archives. Under Hadrian, he became the Emperor's secretary.

2. C. Suetonius Tranquillus Gaius suetonius Tranquillus (c.71c.135) Roman scholar and official, best-known as the author of the Lives of the Twelve Caesars. http://www.livius.org/su-sz/suetonius/suetonius.html

home index ancient Rome C. Suetonius Tranquillus Portrait of a man from Ostia (Palazzo Massimo alle terme, Roma) Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (c.71-c.135): Roman scholar and official, best-known as the author of the Lives of the Twelve Caesars Life Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus was born in the province of Africa, in Hippo Regius, near modern 'Annaba in northeast Algeria. His father Suetonius Laetus was a rich man and belonged to the equestrian order, the second rank of the Roman elite (after the senators ). In 69, the year of the civil war that is known as the 'year of the four emperors', Laetus was serving as a military tribune in the thirteenth legion Gemina . The author of the Lives of the Twelve Caesars tells this in his Life of Otho , and adds that his father had been present when Otho decided to commit suicide after his army had been defeated at Cremona by the legions of his rival Vitellius Examples Full text: Latin Full text: English The death of Caesar The burial of Caesar Tiberius' sex life ... Laetus and Otho Julius Caesar (Musei Vaticani, Roma)

3. Suetonius suetonius also makes mention of Nero s persecution in 16.2 Punishment by Nero was inflicted on the Christians, a class of men given to a new and http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/suetonius.html

Home Other Suetonius Suetonius At a Glance Treatise Genre Reliability of Dating Length of Text Greek Original Language: Ancient Translations: Modern Translations: Estimated Range of Dating: 115-115 C.E. Chronological List Earlier Texts 65-80 Gospel of Mark 70-100 Epistle of James 70-120 Egerton Gospel 70-160 Gospel of Peter 70-160 Secret Mark 70-200 Fayyum Fragment 70-200 The Twelve Patriarchs 73-200 Mara Bar Serapion 80-100 2 Thessalonians 80-100 Ephesians 80-100 Gospel of Matthew 80-110 1 Peter 80-120 Epistle of Barnabas 80-130 Gospel of Luke 80-130 Acts of the Apostles 80-140 1 Clement 80-150 Gospel of the Egyptians 80-150 Gospel of the Hebrews 73-200 Christian Sibyllines 80-100 Apocalypse of John 90-120 Gospel of John Later Texts Online Text for Suetonius Perseus: Lives of the Caesars in Latin Lives of the Caesars: Rolfe Translation Online Resources for Suetonius Suetonius: Electronic Texts and Resources Josh McDowell's "Evidence" for Jesus: Is It Reliable? (On Suetonius by Jeffery Jay Lowder) Offline Resources for Suetonius Josh McDowell's "Evidence" for Jesus: Is It Reliable? (On Suetonius by Jeffery Jay Lowder) Information on Suetonius In The Life of Claudius 25.4, we find the statement, "As the Jews were making constant disturbances at the instigation of Chrestus, he expelled them from Rome."

4. Suetonius suetonius Historian to Roman Emperor Hadrian, he recorded biblical events. Other sources include Mara Bar-Serapion and Lucian of Samosata. http://www.allaboutthejourney.org/suetonius.htm

Suetonius You are here: The Journey Suetonius Suetonius Suetonius was a secretary and historian to Hadrian, Emperor of Rome from 117 to 138 AD. Regarding Emperor Claudius (41-54 AD) and the Riot of Rome in 49 AD, Suetonius wrote: As the Jews were making constant disturbances at the instigation of Chrestus [Christ], he [Claudius] expelled them from Rome. Interestingly, Acts 18:2 relates that Paul met Aquila and his wife Priscilla just after they left Italy because Claudius had expelled them. Later, Suetonius wrote about the great fire of Rome in 64 AD: Punishment by Nero was inflicted on the Christians, a class of men given to a new and mischievous superstition. Mara Bar-Serapion , a stoic philosopher from Syria, wrote this letter to his son from prison sometime after 70 AD: What advantage did the Athenians gain from putting Socrates to death? Famine and plague came upon them as a judgment for their crime. What advantage did the men of Samos gain from burning Pythagoras? In a moment their land was covered with sand. What advantage did the Jews gain from their executing their wise king? It was just after that that their kingdom was abolished. God justly avenged these three wise men: The Athenians died of hunger; the Samians were overwhelmed by the sea; the Jews, ruined and driven from their land, live in complete dispersion. But Socrates did not die for good; he lived on in the statue of Plato. Pythagoras did not die for good; he lived on in the statue of Hera. Nor did the wise king die for good; he lived on in the teaching which he had given.

5. Ancient History Sourcebook: Suetonius  (c.69-after 122 CE): De Vita Caesarum, D English translation by Rolfe of Divus Iulius, part of De Vita Caesarum by suetonius. http://www.fordham.edu/HALSALL/ANCIENT/suetonius-julius.html

Back to Ancient History Sourcebook Ancient History Sourcebook: Suetonius (c.69-after 122 CE) De Vita Caesarum, Divus Iulius (The Lives of the Caesars, The Deified Julius), written c. 110 CE I. II. He served his first campaign in Asia on the personal staff of Marcus Thermus, governor of the province [81 BC]. Being sent by Thermus to Bithynia, to fetch a fleet, he dawdled so long at the court of Nicomedes that he was suspected of improper relations with the king; and he lent color to this scandal by going back to Bithynia a few days after his return, with the alleged purpose of collecting a debt for a freedman, one of his dependents. During the rest of the campaign he enjoyed a better reputation, and at the storming of Mytilene [80 BC] Thermus awarded him the civic crown [a chaplet of oak leaves, given for saving the life of a fellow-citizen, the highest military award of the Roman state]. III. He served too under Servilius Isauricus in Cilicia, but only for a short time; for learning of the death of Sulla, and at the same time hoping to profit by a counter-revolution which Marcus Lepidus was setting on foot, he hurriedly returned to Rome [78 BC]. But he did not make common cause with Lepidus, although he was offered highly favorable terms, through lack of confidence both in that leader's capacity and in the outlook, which he found less promising than he had expected. IV.

6. LacusCurtius • Suetonius' Twelve Caesars English entry page to the complete Latin text and an English translation of the work, in turn part of a large site containing many Greek and Latin texts and http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/12Caesars/home.html

mail: Bill Thayer Fran§ais Italiano Help Up Home Suetonius: The Lives of the Twelve Caesars The Text on LacusCurtius The Latin text is that of Maximilian Ihm in the Teubner edition of 1907, with cosmetic changes as printed in the Loeb Classical Library edition, 1913‑1914. The English translation is by J. C. Rolfe, printed in the same edition. Both text and translation are in the public domain. As usual, I retyped the text rather than scanning it: not only to minimize errors prior to proofing, but as an opportunity for me to become intimately familiar with the work, an exercise which I heartily recommend. (Well-meaning attempts to get me to scan text, if successful, would merely turn me into some kind of machine: gambit declined.) In the table of contents below, all the Books are shown on blue backgrounds red backgrounds would indicate that my transcription was still not proofread. The header bar at the top of each webpage will remind you with the same color scheme. Should you spot an error, please do report it, of course. Further details on the technical aspects of the site layout follow the Table of Contents. Background material on Suetonius, the Lives of the Twelve Caesars, the manuscripts, etc. will appear here in the fullness of time, but as usual I'm not about to let that delay anything, preferring to get a good text online first.

7. Suetonius C. SVETONIVS TRANQVILLVS. (c. 69 – after 130). DE VITA CAESARUM. Divus Iulius Divus Augustus Tiberius Caligula Divus Claudius Nero Galba Otho http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/suet.html

C. SVETONIVS TRANQVILLVS DE VITA CAESARUM Divus Iulius Divus Augustus Tiberius Caligula ... Domitianus DE POETIS Terence Virgil Horace Tibullus ... The Classics Page

8. Suetonius As suetonius was the emperor Hadrian s private secretary (magister epistolarum), he must have had access to many important documents in the Imperial http://www.nndb.com/people/874/000087613/

This is a beta version of NNDB Search: All Names Living people Dead people Band Names Book Titles Movie Titles Full Text for Suetonius AKA Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus Born: 69 AD Birthplace: Rome, Italy Died: 122 AD Location of death: Rome, Italy Cause of death: unspecified Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Occupation: Historian Nationality: Ancient Rome Executive summary: De Vita Caesarum Roman historian, lived during the end of the 1st and the first half of the 2nd century AD. He was the contemporary of Tacitus and the younger Pliny, and his literary work seems to have been chiefly done in the reigns of Trajan and Hadrian (AD 98-138). His father was military tribune in the XIIIth legion, and he himself began life as a teacher of rhetoric and an advocate. To us he is known as the biographer of the twelve Caesars (including Julius Caesar ) down to Domitian . The lives are valuable as covering a good deal of ground where we are without the guidance of Tacitus. As Suetonius was the emperor Hadrian's private secretary ( magister epistolarum The Lives of the Caesars has always been a popular work. It is rather a chronicle than a history. It gives no picture of the society of the time, no hints as to the general character and tendencies of the period. It is the emperor who is always before us, and yet the portrait is drawn without any real historical judgment or insight. It is the personal anecdotes, several of which are very amusing, that give the lives their chief interest; but the author panders rather too much to a taste for scandal and gossip. Nonetheless he throws considerable light on an important period, and next to Tacitus and Dio Cassius is the chief (sometimes the only) authority. The language is clear and simple. The work was continued by Marius Maximus (3rd century), who wrote a history of the emperors from Nerva to

9. Oxford World's Classics Magazine suetonius, Lives of the Caesars (on which I, Claudius is partly based) shows suetonius presents us with shocking accounts of Caligula s plan to make his http://www.oup.co.uk/worldsclassics/magarchive/mag2/suetonius/

A certain politician's wallpaper, the extra-marital affairs of Ministers, the meaning of William Hague's baseball cap: articles of this ilk seem to take up column feet each year, and biography sections of bookshops get bigger every year. If you thought that analysing the private lives of public figures was a modern phenomenon, think again. Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars (on which I, Claudius is partly based) shows that there were similar obsessions almost two millennia ago. Catharine Edwards, translator of the Oxford World's Classics edition published this autumn, reports: Suetonius' Lives of the Caesars , starting with Julius Caesar and ending with the emperor Domitian, has always had its place as a fund of extraordinary tales of imperial vice - and, at times, of models of imperial virtue. Suetonius presents us with shocking accounts of Caligula's plan to make his horse consul and of Nero singing while Rome burned, as well as with edifying descriptions of Augustus' splendid redevelopment of the city of Rome and Titus' decision to put the state before his love for Berenice. Centuries later rulers might aspire to being hailed as another Augustus or Titus - and dread being labelled another Caligula or Nero.

10. Suetonius --  Britannica Online Encyclopedia Britannica online encyclopedia article on suetonius Roman biographer and antiquarian whose writings include De viris illustribus (Concerning Illustrious http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9070157/Suetonius

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11. BBC - History - Suetonius (?) suetonius was the Roman governor of Britain who defeated Boudicca s rebellion. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/suetonius.shtml

@import '/includes/tbenh.css'; @import '/history/historic_figures/css/historic_figures.css'; @import '/history/historic_figures/css/biography.css'; Home TV Radio Talk ... A-Z Index 27 January 2008 Accessibility help Text only BBC Homepage History Homepage Topics Ancient History British History World Wars Recent History Resources Interactive Content British Timeline Historic Figures History for Kids Practical History Archaeology Family History History Trails Community Message Board Newsletter Site guide Contact Us Like this page? Send it to a friend! Suetonius (?) Suetonius was the Roman governor of Britain who defeated Boudicca's rebellion Little is known of Gaius Suetonius Paulinus's early life. The earliest record of his career dates from 42 AD, during the reign of the Emperor Claudius, when he suppressed a revolt in Mauretania (north Africa) and became the first Roman to cross the Atlas mountains. In 58 AD, he was appointed governor of Britain, by which time the area south-east of a line between the Wash and the Severn estuary was under Roman domination. Beyond that, the situation was more unstable. Suetonius engaged in war against the Ordovices in Wales, and was attacking the Druids in Anglesey at the start of the campaign season of 61 AD. Here he was victorious, but, far to the south-east, in the rich, settled region around the capital, Camulodunum (Colchester), rebellion erupted. The uprising endangered not only the province but also Paulinus's career.

12. Emblematic Scenes In Suetonius' Vitellius John Burke offers this paper which examines Seutonius biography of the emperor Vitellius. http://www.dur.ac.uk/Classics/histos/1998/burke.html

Emblematic Scenes in Suetonius' Vitellius John W. Burke (Kent State University) ... religatis post terga manibus, iniecto ceruicibus laqueo, ueste discissa seminudus in forum tractus est inter magna rerum uerborumque ludibria per totum uiae Sacrae spatium, reducto coma capite, ceu noxii solent, atque etiam mento mucrone gladii subrecto, ut uisendam praeberet faciem neue summitteret; quibusdam stercore et caeno incessentibus, aliis incendiarium et patinarium uociferantibus, parte uulgi etiam corporis uitia exprobrante; erat enim in eo enormis proceritas, facies rubida plerumque ex uinulentia, uenter obesus, alterum femur subdebile impulsu olim quadrigae, cum auriganti Gaio ministratorem exhiberet. tandem apud Gemonias minutissimis ictibus excarnificatus atque confectus est et inde unco tractus in Tiberim. ( Vit Suetonius' biography of Vitellius, a brief, but systematic, attack on that emperor's character and principate, culminates in the lurid scene quoted above, in which Vitellius is executed. Why should Suetonius have represented Vitellius, who reigned for so short a time, in such harshly negative terms? Partly, no doubt, because the basic tradition about Vitellius was established during the era of the Flavians, by whom, of course, he had been overthrown. The ancient source who most nearly approaches the almost uniformly negative picture provided by Suetonius is Flavius Josephus, and, at least in his case, for obvious reasons. But while the portrait offered by our other principal sources, Tacitus and Dio, is indeed decidedly unflattering and hostile, being largely based upon the same source-material as Suetonius', it is not without some attempt at equity (e.g. Tac.

13. Classics 219: The Roman Empire: Suetonius, Claudius The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, C. Tranquillus suetonius, The Translation of Alexander Thomson, R. Worthington, New York (1883). • Ch 10 • Ch 20 • Ch 30 http://www.princeton.edu/~champlin/cla219/csuet.htm

219 Home Lecture Outlines Precept Guides Precept Info ... WWW Links Tiberius Claudius Drusus Caesar (The Life of Claudius) The Lives of the Twelve Caesars , C. Tranquillus Suetonius, The Translation of Alexander Thomson, R. Worthington, New York (1883) Ch 10 Ch 20 Ch 30 1. Livia having married Augustus when she was pregnant was, within three months afterwards, delivered of Drusus, the father of Claudius Caesar, who had at first the praenomen of Decimus, but afterwards that of Nero; and it was suspected that he was begotten in adultery by his step-father [Augustus]. The following verse, however, was immediately in every one's mouth: Nine months for common births the fates decree; But, for the great, reduce the term to three. This Drusus, during the time of his being quaestor and praetor, commanded in the Rhaetian and German wars, and was the first of all the Roman generals who navigated the Northern Ocean. He made likewise some prodigious canals beyond the Rhine, which to this day are called by his name. He overthrew the enemy in several battles and drove them far back into the depths of the desert. Nor did he desist from pursuing them, until an apparition, in the form of a barbarian woman, of more than human size, appeared to him, and, in the Latin tongue, forbade him to proceed any further. For these achievements he had the honour of an ovation and the triumphal ornaments. After his praetorship, he immediately entered on the office of consul, and returning to Germany, died of disease, in the summer encampment, which thence obtained the name of

14. Suetonius, Life Of Augustus, Outline Life of Agustus according to suetonius, but in outline form. http://www.csun.edu/~hcfll004/suet-aug.html

Suetonius, Divus Augustus 1-4 AUGUSTUS' ANCESTRY 5-8 AUGUSTUS' BOYHOOD 7: How he came to be called `Caesar Augustus' 9-19 THE CIVIL WARS 10: Augustus and Antony: Mutina 11: Hirtius and Pansa: suspicion of foul play 12: 43 B.C.: Octavian abandons the Optimate faction 13: The Second Triumvirate: Philippi (42 B.C.) Proscriptions 14: 40 B.C.: Perusia (15: `Arae Perusinae') 16: 38-36 B.C.: Sicily: Sextius Pompeius and Lepidus Naulochus 17: 31 B.C. September 2: Battle of Actium 18: Antonius and Cleopatra 19: Conspiracies and rebellions. 20-25 AUGUSTUS' FOREIGN WARS AND MILITARY POLICY 20: Wars Augustus fought in person 21: Wars fought by proxy (legati). Frontier policy. 22: Peace: The Temple of Janus 23: Triumphs and Disasters 24: Military Discipline 25: Slaves in the military: military rewards. Augustus' caution 26-28 AUGUSTUS AND THE CONSTITUTION: THE `PRINCIPATE' 26: The consulships (31-23, 12, 5) 27: The triumvirate. Tribunicia potestas. Censorships. 28: Augustus and the Republic. The new regime.

15. C. Suetonius Tranquillus, De Vita Caesarum (ed. Maximilian Ihm) C. suetonius Tranquillus, De Vita Caesarum (ed. Maximilian Ihm). Editions and translations Latin (ed. Maximilian Ihm) English (ed. Alexander Thomson) http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0061:life=vi

16. Julius Caesar - Suetonius The Life Of Julius Caesar English translation of the biography of Julius Caesar by suetonius The Life of Julius Caesar. http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_text_suetcaesar.htm

zGCID=" test0" zGCID=" test0 test14" zJs=10 zJs=11 zJs=12 zJs=13 zc(5,'jsc',zJs,9999999,'') You are here: About Education Ancient / Classical History Ancient / Classical History ... Help The Lives of the Twelve Caesars By C. Suetonius Tranquillus; The Translation of Alexander Thomson, M.D. revised and corrected by T.Forester, Esq., A.M. Julius Caesar Related Resources Plutarch Life of Caesar Suetonius - Life of Tiberius Caesar Julius Caesar Articles on this site Julius Caesar © Clipart.com II. His first campaign was served in Asia, on the staff of the praetor, M. Thermus; and being dispatched into Bithynia [9], to bring thence a fleet, he loitered so long at the court of Nicomedes, as to give occasion to reports of a criminal intercourse between him and that prince; which received additional credit from his hasty return to Bithynia, under the pretext of recovering a debt due to a freed-man, his client. The rest of his service was more favourable to his reputation; and (3) when Mitylene [10] was taken by storm, he was presented by Thermus with the civic crown. [11] III. He served also in Cilicia [12], under Servilius Isauricus, but only for a short time; as upon receiving intelligence of Sylla's death, he returned with all speed to Rome, in expectation of what might follow from a fresh agitation set on foot by Marcus Lepidus. Distrusting, however, the abilities of this leader, and finding the times less favourable for the execution of this project than he had at first imagined, he abandoned all thoughts of joining Lepidus, although he received the most tempting offers.

17. SUETONIUS suetonius. WWW.RomanBritain.ORG. Gaius suetonius Tranquillus. The Lives of the Caesars. REFERENCES TO BRITAIN AND THE CELTS http://www.roman-britain.org/books/suetonius.htm

WWW. Roman-Britain .ORG Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus The Lives of the Caesars R EFERENCES T O B RITAIN A ND T HE C ELTS Julius Gaius Claudius Nero ... Domitian Gaius Julius Caesar Julius XXV He was the first Roman to build a bridge and attack the Germans beyond the Rhine ; and he inflicted heavy losses upon them. He invaded the Britons too, a people unknown before, vanquished them, and exacted moneys and hostages. Amid all these successes he met with adverse fortune but three times in all: in Britain, where his fleet narrowly escaped destruction in a violent storm ; in Gaul, when one of his legions was routed at Gergovia ; and on the borders of Germany, when his lieutenants Titurius and Aurunculeius were ambushed and slain. Julius XLVII They say that he was led to invade Britain by the hope of getting pearls, and that in comparing their size he sometimes weighed them with his own hand ; that he was always a most enthusiastic collector of gems, carvings, statues, and pictures by early artists ; also of slaves of exceptional figure and training at enormous prices, of which he himself was so ashamed that he forbade their entry in his accounts. Julius LVIII In the conduct of his campaigns it is a question whether he was more cautious or more daring, for he never led his army where ambuscades were possible without carefully reconnoitring the country, and he did not cross to Britain without making personal inquiries about the harbours, the course, and the approach to the island. But on the other hand, when news came that his camp in Germany was beleaguered, he made his way to his men through the enemies' pickets, disguised as a Gaul.

18. Jeffrey St. Clair: Empire Of The Locusts These days I ve taken to rereading suetonius, the droll muckraker of the suetonius unearthed a juicy trove of scandal from the lives of the Julian and http://counterpunch.org/stclair03272004.html

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19. Suetonius And The Reign Of Tiberius: A Comparison With Other Sources suetonius wrote a vivid account of Tiberius’ life in his Twelve Caesars. Tiberius’ personality, especially his duplicity, cruelty and dissimulation appear http://www.jerryfielden.com/essays/suetonius.htm

c) Jerry Fielden 2000 Suetonius and the reign of Tiberius: a comparison with other sources Suetonius wrote a vivid account of Tiberius’ life in his Twelve Caesars. Tiberius’ personality, especially his duplicity, cruelty and dissimulation appear clearly in this writer’s biography of the second emperor. I would like to recount and analyze certain episodes in Suetonius’ biography of Tiberius and in the other authors’ accounts, particularly Tacitus’ and Dio Cassius’. I will then compare these and try to tie them in to the authors’ outlooks as historians and possible class relationships as a mode of explanation for the angle of each story. First, I would like to talk briefly about each of the concerned writers and their sources, to give us a basis for what will follow. Four authors have chronicled Tiberius’ reign in some detail, one of them, Velleius Paterculus, while Tiberius was alive and ruling the Empire, the other three, Suetonius, Tacitus and Dio Cassius, later on in the history of Rome. Velleius Paterculus was a military tribune under Augustus, a prefect of the horse, a legate, a quaestor and finally a praetor under Tiberius.[1] He is known as an admirer of Tiberius, whom he served under, and of Sejanus, and this can be seen in the text. Whether this positive outlook was due to genuine admiration, prudence or fear is another story. He died around 30 or 31, so we do not have his angle on the fall of Sejanus.[2]

20. Harvard University Press: The Lives Of The Caesars, I : Julius. Augustus. Tiberi The Lives of the Caesars, I Julius. Augustus. Tiberius. Gaius. Caligula by suetonius, published by Harvard University Press. http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/L031.html

Home Ordering Search/Browse Contact ... HUP The Lives of the Caesars, I Julius. Augustus. Tiberius. Gaius. Caligula Suetonius Translator J. C. Rolfe Introduction by K. R. Bradley Suetonius (C. Suetonius Tranquillus, born ca. 70 CE Lives of the Caesars. After the dismissal of both men for some breach of court etiquette, Suetonius apparently retired and probably continued his writing. His other works, many known by title, are now lost except for part of the Lives of Illustrious Men (of letters). Friend of Pliny the Younger, Suetonius was a studious and careful collector of facts, so that the extant lives of the emperors (including Julius Caesar the dictator) to Domitian are invaluable. His plan in Lives of the Caesars is: the emperor's family and early years; public and private life; death. We find many anecdotes, much gossip of the imperial court, and various details of character and personal appearance. Suetonius's account of Nero's death is justly famous. The Loeb Classical Library edition of Suetonius is in two volumes. Both volumes were revised throughout in 1997-98, and a new Introduction added. Other HUP Books by Suetonius The Lives of the Caesars, II: Claudius. Nero. Galba, Otho, and Vitellius. Vespasian. Titus, Domitian. Lives of Illustrious Men: Grammarians and Rhetoricians. Poets (Terence. Virgil. Horace. Tibullus. Persius. Lucan). Lives of Pliny the Elder and Passienus Crispus

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