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The Twelve Caesars of Suetonius (born AD 69), covering the Roman rulers from Julius Caesar to Domiti...
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The Twelve Caesars of Suetonius (born AD 69), covering the Roman rulers from Julius Caesar to Domitian, remains one of the richest and most fascinating of all Latin histories. As one-time personal secretary of the Emperor Hadrian, Suetonius had access to the Imperial and Senatorial archives; he also gathered much of his information from eye-witnesses, checking his facts carefully and quoting conflicting evidence without bias. But his history is also the raciest and most vivid account we have of the scandalous and amusing incidents in the domestic lives of the first Casesars.
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