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Paperback. Pub Date :2007-12-18 Pages: 464 Language: English Publisher: Penguin Books An essential primary source on Roman history. Suetonius The Twelve Caesars is a fascinating achievement of scholarship covering a critical period in the Empire. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the Latin by Robert Graves. author of I. Claudius. revised with an introduction and notes by James B. Rives. As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian. the scholar Suetonius had access to the imperial archives and used them (along with eyewitness accounts) to produce one of the most colourful biographical works in history. The Twelve Caesars chronicles the public careers and private lives of the men who wielded absolute power over Rome. from the foundation of the empire under Julius Caesar and Augustus. to the decline into depravity and civil war under Nero and the recovery that cam...