The Twelve Caesars

by Suetonius (Author); Graves, Robert (Translator); Rives, James (Revised by)

• ISBN13: 9780140455168
• ISBN10: 0140455167
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-12-18
• Publisher: Penguin Classics

Summary

As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, the scholar Suetonius had access to the imperial archives and used them (along with eyewitness accounts) to produce one of the most colourful 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 observation, anecdote and detailed physical description, The Twelve Caesars presents us with a gallery of vividly drawn - and all too human - individuals.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations	p. vii
Chronology	p. viii
Introduction	p. xvii
Analyses of the 'Lives'	p. xlii
Further Reading	p. liii
A Note on the Text	p. lviii
Divus Julius	p. 1
Divus Augustus	p. 43
Tiberius	p. 104
Gaius Caligula	p. 145
Divus Claudius	p. 178
Nero	p. 207
Galba	p. 242
Otho	p. 255
Vitellius	p. 263
Divus Vespasian	p. 274
Divus Titus	p. 288
Domitian	p. 295
Glossary of Terms	p. 311
Glossary of Place Names in Rome	p. 319
Key to Maps	p. 325
Maps	p. 330
Family Trees	p. 343
Notes	p. 347
Index of Historical Persons	p. 382
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