The Twelve Caesars - Paperback
by Suetonius
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Availability:In StockContributor:Suetonius, Robert Graves (Translator), James Rives (Revised by)Series:Penguin ClassicsAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2007-12-18Pages:464
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin ClassicsISBN-13:9780140455168ISBN-10:140455167UPC:9780140455168Book Category:History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Ancient, Presidents & Heads of State, EuropeBook Topic:Rome, ItalySize:7.80 x 5.14 x 0.78 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SC7EEJ42MG
The Twelve Caesars
An essential primary source on Roman history and a fascinating achievement of scholarship covering a critical period in the Empire 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...
Series: Penguin Classics
Audience: Young Adult
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin ClassicsISBN-13:9780140455168ISBN-10:140455167UPC:9780140455168Book Category:History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Ancient, Presidents & Heads of State, EuropeBook Topic:Rome, ItalySize:7.80 x 5.14 x 0.78 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SC7EEJ42MG
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus was probably born in AD69--the famous "year of the four Emperors." From the letters of Suetonius' close friend Pliny the Younger we learn that he practiced briefly at the bar, avoided political life, and became chief secretary to the Emperor Hadrian (AD117-38). Suetonius seems to have lived to a good age and probably died around the year AD140. James Rives teaches in...
Publisher: Penguin Classics
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Suetonius, Robert Graves (Translator), James Rives (Revised by)
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