Suetonius

Enriched by anecdotes, gossip, and details of character and personal appearance, "Lives of the Caesars" by Suetonius (born c. 70 CE) is a valuable and colorful source of information about the first twelve Roman emperors, Roman imperial politics, and Roman imperial society. Part of Suetonius "Lives of Illustrious Men" (of letters) also survives.

Enriched by anecdotes, gossip, and details of character and personal appearance, "Lives of the Caesars "by Suetonius (born c. 70 CE) is a valuable and colourful source of information about the first twelve Roman emperors, Roman imperial politics, and Roman imperial socity. Part of Suetonius "Lives of Illustrious Men" (of letters) also survives.

Since the city was not adorned as the dignity of the empire demanded ... [Augustus] so beautified it that he could justly boast that he had found it built of brick and left it in marble....

Presents the biography of the brutal, crazed and incestuous Roman Emperor Caligula, who tried to appoint his own horse consul.

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.

The Lives of the Caesars include the biographies of Julius Caesar and the eleven subsequent emperors: Augustus, Tiberius, Gaius Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitelius, Vespasian, Titus, Domitian. The format and style of Suetonius' Lives of the Caesars was to set the tone for biography throughout western literature - his work remains vibrant to the modern reader. This edition features a thoroughly researched and incisive introduction, a fresh and accurate translation, and thoroughly researched and detailed notes.

This edition of Suetonius' life of Julius Caesar is a revision by G.B. Townend of the Butler-Cary edition of1927. It includes introduction, bibliography, the Latin text, and notes on the text.

The Latin text, with introduction and commentary, of the biography of the emperor Claudius by Suetonius.

"Upon the whole, he added nothing to his own happiness by all the dangers, the fatigues, and the perpetual anxiety which he had incurred in the pursuit of unlimited power," - Suetonius on Julius Caesar....

Edited with Introduction and Commentary by John M. Carter

This edition, originally commissioned as one of BCP's first new texts, appeared in 1977. It has served for twenty years in its original format (typed for short-run before computer DTP). Technology and work on Suetonius have both moved on and this new edition takes account of this.