The Twelve Caesars (Annotated)

The Twelve Caesars is a foundational work of imperial biography, tracing the lives of Julius Caesar and the first eleven Roman emperors from Augustus to Domitian. Suetonius writes not as a continuous political historian but as an anatomist of power, arranging public deeds, private habits, virtues, vices, omens, scandals, and memorable sayings into sharply profiled portraits. Its style is concise, ...