The Twelve Caesars
$19.53
- Paperback
464 pages
- Release Date
20 January 2008
Summary
Rulers of Rome: Suetonius’ The Twelve Caesars
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 de…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140455168 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140455167 |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
| Author: | Robert Graves, Suetonius, James Rives |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 20 January 2008 |
| Weight: | 339g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 26mm |
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About The Author
Robert Graves
Suetonius (Author)
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.
Robert Graves (Author)
Robert Graves was born in 1895 in Wimbledon. He went from school to the First World War, where he became a captain in the Royal Welch Fusiliers and was seriously wounded at the Battle of the Somme. He wrote his autobiography, Goodbye to All That, in 1929, and it was soon established as a modern classic. He died on 7 December 1985 in Majorca, his home since 1929.
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