The Lives of the Twelve Caesars
Suetonius
Apr 2005 · Naxos AudioBooks · Narrated by Derek Jacobi
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Suetonius wrote his Lives of the Twelve Caesars in the reign of Vespasian around A.ÊD.Ê70. He chronicled the extraordinary careers of Julius, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Vespasian and Domitian and the rest in technicolour terms. They presented some high and low times at the heart of the Roman Empire. The accounts provide us with perspicacious insights into the men as much as their reignsÊÐ and it was from Suetonius that subsequent writers such as Robert Graves drew so much of their material.
Suetonius wrote his Lives of the Twelve Caesars in the reign of Vespasian around A.ÊD.Ê70. He chronicled the extraordinary careers of Julius, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Vespasian and Domitian and the rest in technicolour terms. They presented some high and low times at the hear...
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