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The Lives of the Caesars (Hardcover)
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The Lives of the Caesars (Hardcover)
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A masterful new translation of Suetonius' renowned biography of the
twelve Caesars, bringing to life a portrait of the first Roman emperors
in stunning detail
The ancient Roman empire was the supreme arena, where emperors had no
choice but to fight, to thrill, to dazzle. To rule as a Caesar was to
stand as an actor upon the great stage of the world. No biography
invites us into the lives of the Caesars more vividly or intimately
than that by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, written from the centre of
Rome and power, in AD 121.
Placing each Caesar in the context of the generations that had gone
before, and connecting personality with policy, Suetonius injected
flesh and blood into their stories, which continue to inform how we
understand the drama of power today. Their shortfalls, foreign policy
crises and sex scandals are laid bare; we are shown their tastes, their
foibles, their eccentricities; and we sit at their tables and enter
their bedrooms, resulting in a series of biographies mediated through
the lives of the Caesars themselves.
That Rome lives more vividly in people's imagination than any other
ancient empire owes an inordinate amount to Suetonius, and now
award-winning author and translator Tom Holland brings us even closer
in a new, spellbinding translation. Giving a deeper understanding of
the personal lives of the Caesars and of how they inevitably informed
what happened across the vast expanse of empire, The Lives of the
Caesars is an astonishing, immersive experience of a time and culture
at once familiar and utterly alien to our own.
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