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- The annals of imperial Rome by Cornelius Tacitus
- The histories by Tacitus
- Fall of the Roman Republic: Marius, Sulla, Crassus, Pompey, Caesar, Cicero: six lives; by Plutarch
- The Jugurthine War ; The conspiracy of Catiline by Sallust
- The early history of Rome : books I-V of The history of Rome from its foundations by Livy
| - The civil war by Julius Caesar
- The conquest of Gaul by Julius Caesar
- Lives of the later Caesars : the first part of the Augustan history : with newly compiled Lives of Nerva and Trajan by Anonymous
- Makers of Rome, nine lives Coriolanus, Fabius Maximus, Macellus, Cato the Elder, Tiberius Gracchus, Gaius Gracchus, Sert by Plutarch
- The rise of the Roman Empire by Polybius
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Born in 60 A.D., Suetonius served for several years as secretary to the Roman emperor Hadrian. His years in the palaces and halls of imperial government served him well when he set out to write this oftentimes eye-popping, tell-all account of the doings of the first 12 emperors, from Julius to Domitian, who make the good fellas of Mafia renown seem tame by comparison. From Suetonius we learn that Augustus was afraid of lightning and thunder and carried a piece of seal skin as protection against them; that Caligula slept with his mother and his sister; and that Nero outlawed mimes in Rome--which may mean that he wasn't such a bad man after all. Suetonius doesn't hesitate to say when he's reporting gossip that he has not personally verified, but what gossip it is! This translation, by the noted classicist Robert Graves, serves the ancient chronicler very well indeed. (retrieved from Amazon Mon, 19 Nov 2007 03:58:10 -0500) (see all 7 descriptions) |
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