Lives of the Twelve Caesars

by T. Forester, Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

39 chapters16h 2mEnglish1796

About this book

The Twelve Caesars is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire. The work was written in 121 during the reign of the emperor Hadrian, while Suetonius was Hadrian's personal secretary. On the Life of the Caesars concentrates on the acts and personalities of the Julio-Claudians and their immediate successors. Together with Tacitus' Annals, this work is a major source for the historical details in Robert Graves' novels "I Claudius" and "Claudius the God". (Summary adapted from Wikipedia by Karen Merline.)

Chapters (38)

1Julius Caesar part 1

1455

2Julius Caesar part 2

1600

3Julius Caesar part 3

2168

4Julius Caesar part 4

2052

5Julius Caesar part 5

1128

6Caesar Agustus part 1

1470

7Caesar Agustus part 2

1595

8Caesar Agustus part 3

1665

9Caesar Agustus part 4

1605

10Caesar Agustus part 5

1630

11Caesar Agustus part 6

1550

12Tiberius part 1

1606

13Tiberius part 2

1774

14Tiberius part 3

1566

15Tiberius part 4

1687

16Caligula part 1

2051

17Caligula part 2

2067

18Caligula part 3

2118

19Claudius part 1

1651

20Claudius part 2

1456

21Claudius part 3

1386

22Nero part 1

1499

23Nero part 2

1436

24Nero part 3

1447

25Nero part 4

1321

26Galba part 1

1250

27Galba part 2

1125

28Otho

1472

29Vitellius

1943

30Vespasian part 1

1118

31Vespasian part 2

1231

32Titus

983

33Domitian part 1

1296

34Domitian part 2

1277

35Lives of Eminent Grammarians part 1

1126

36Lives of Eminent Grammarians part 2

1190

37Lives of Eminent Rhetoricians

765

38Lives of the Poets

1595

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