The Twelve Caesars (Penguin Classic Biography S.) - Tapa blanda

The LIVES OF THE TWELVE CAESARS of Gaius Suetonius (born A.D.69), covering the Roman rulers from Julius Caesar to Domitian, remains one of the richest and most fascinating of all Latin histories. As one-time personal secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, Suetonius had access to the Imperial and Senatorial archives; he also gathered much of his information from eye-witnesses, checking his facts carefully and quoting conflicting evidence without bias. But his history is also the raciest and most vivid account we have of the scandalous and amusing incidents in the domestic lives of the first Caesars.

Robert Graves's translation of THE TWELVE CAESARS, celebrated in Penguin Classics since 1957, has here been revised by Michael Grant. The numerous black-and-white illustrations explore such subjects as family and public life, nature and the gods, and bring vividly before us first-century Rome and her Empire.