The Twelve Caesars (Penguin Classics S.) - Softcover

Suetonius

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140449213 ISBN 13: 9780140449211

Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

The Twelve Caesars: The Lives of the Roman Emperors

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Reseña del editor:

As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, Suetonius gained access to the imperial archives and used them (along with carefully gathered eye-witness 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 depravity and civil war under Nero, and the recovery and stabilitythat came with his successors. A masterpiece of anecdote, wry observation and detailed physical description, The Twelve Caesars presents us with a gallery of vividly drawn - and all too human - individuals.

Biografía del autor:

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.

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• Verlag: Penguin Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0140449213
• ISBN 13: 9780140449211
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384
• Herausgeber: Grant Michael