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The Lives of the Twelve Caesars by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus Loyal Books
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The Twelve Caesars is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire. The work was written in 121 during the reign of the emperor Hadrian, while Suetonius was Hadrian’s personal secretary. On the Life of the Caesars concentrates on the acts and personalities of the Julio-Claudians and their immediate successors. Together with Tacitus’ Annals, this work is a major source for the historical details in Robert Graves’ novels “I Claudius” and “Claudius the God”.
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This is a work that contains a great deal of primary to secondary knowledge of the Roman world, quite literally the concept of the Roman Empire is based on the perception of writers such as Suetonius, Tacitus, Appian, Livy, Cassius Dio, Polybius, Sullust, and a handful of others.