Charlemagne and The Sopranos, Trump and I, Claudius – all owe a debt to the imperial biographies of Suetonius.
I came to Suetonius’s Lives of the Caesars as a schoolboy after watching I, Claudius, the BBC series based on Robert Graves’s ...
Rome in the first century was carefully chronicled by Roman historians, particularly Tacitus, Suetonius and Dio Cassius – that is why we know so much about it. Tacitus was a political player in ...
Recent projects have explored sources for understanding the Augustan age, including Suetonius’ Life of Augustus and buildings in the city of Rome. Phillips teaches a range of courses on Greek and ...
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Peter Florence shares books that spark debateSuetonius, translated by Tom Holland, 2025 Today's Washington has nothing on Suetonius's Ancient Rome. You want to see crazy power run wild? Tom Holland brings his dearest "Father of the Show ...
It’s also something that drew me to publish a translation of Suetonius’ Lives of the Caesars (Oxford World’s Classics 2000), while Tacitus’ characterization of Agrippina features ...
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