![]() ![]() Harmondsworth New York etc., Penguin, 1979. (Summary from Wikipedia, adapted and extended by Karen Merline.)įor further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox. Suetonius, approximately 69-approximately 122, Robert Graves and Michael Grant, The Twelve Caesars. This edition includes the fragmentary Lives of Famous Rhetoricians, Grammarians, and Poets. Together with Tacitus' Annals, this work is a major source for the historical details in Robert Graves' novels "I Claudius" and "Claudius the God". The Lives of the Twelve Caesars concentrates on the acts and personalities of the Julio-Claudians and their immediate successors. The work was written in 121 during the reign of the emperor Hadrian, while Suetonius was Hadrian's personal secretary. The Twelve Caesars is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire. Forester, and read by LibriVox volunteers. It is a vivid and detailed account of the lives and reigns of the first twelve Roman Emperors, from Julius Caesar to Domitian. LibriVox recording of The Lives of the Twelve Caesars by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, translated by Alexander Thomson, M.D., edited by T. The Twelve Caesars is a classic history book written by the Roman historian Suetonius in the early second century AD. ![]()
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