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The Twelve Caesars

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An very important number one supply on Roman historical past and an enchanting success of scholarship overlaying a important duration within the Empire

As personal secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, the coed Suetonius had get right of entry to to the imperial records and used them (in conjunction with eyewitness bills) to provide one of the vital vibrant biographical works in historical past. The Twelve Caesars chronicles the general public careers and personal lives of the lads who wielded absolute energy over Rome, from the basis of the empire underneath Julius Caesar and Augustus, to the decline into depravity and civil warfare underneath Nero and the restoration that got here together with his successors. A masterpiece of statement, anecdote and specific bodily description, The Twelve Caesars gifts us with a gallery of vividly drawn—and all too human—people.

James B. Rives has sensitively up to date Robert Graves’s now vintage translation, reinstating Latin phrases and updating vocabulary whilst keeping the liveliness of the unique. This variation comprises a brand new chronology, additional studying, glossaries, maps, notes and an creation discussing Suetonius’ existence and works.

For greater than seventy years, Penguin has been the major writer of vintage literature within the English-talking global. With greater than 1,seven-hundred titles, Penguin Classics represents an international bookshelf of the most efficient works right through historical past and throughout genres and disciplines. Readers accept as true with the collection to supply authoritative texts greater by means of introductions and notes by means of prominent students and up to date authors, in addition to {up-to-date|up to date} translations by means of award-profitable translators.

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