Roman emperor Augustus understood, just as Donald Trump does, that to stand at the head of a superpower is to stand as an ...

Charlemagne and The Sopranos, Trump and I, Claudius – all owe a debt to the imperial biographies of Suetonius.

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 ...

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A biography written of Caesar by the Roman historian Suetonius in the year 121 AD (over 100 years after Caesar’s death) said, “Baldness was a disfigurement that troubled him greatly since he ...

Suetonius, a Roman historian from the first and second centuries, wrote in The Lives of the Twelve Caesars that Augustus ...

Suetonius, 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 ...