Lives of the Caesars
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- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
8 October 2008
Summary
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. Suetonius composed his material from a variety of sources, without much concern for their reliability. His biographies consist of the ancestry and career of each emperor in turn; however, his interest is not so much analytical or historical, but anecdotal and salacious, which gives rise to a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199537563 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0199537569 |
| Author: | Suetonius, Catharine Edwards |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 8 October 2008 |
| Weight: | 310g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 20mm |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
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Suetonius
Catharine Edwards is a Professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Bristol. She is a scholar specializing in Roman culture and literature. Her research interests include Roman oratory, satire, and the cultural history of Rome.
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