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Suetonius' portrait of Nero offers one of the most vivid and controversial accounts of a Roman emperor whose reign combined artistic ambition, political intrigue, and notorious excess.

In this celebrated biography from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars,... Read Full Overview

This new edition of Suetonius' Nero is updated to take account of research on Suetonius. It includes the original author's corrections and updating, his complete revision of the commentary, with suggestions from regular users of the book, which was first published in... Read Full Overview

Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, commonly known as Suetonius (c. 69 - after 122 AD), was a Roman historian belonging to the equestrian order who wrote during the early Imperial era of the Roman Empire. His most important surviving work is a set of biographies of twelve successive... Read Full Overview

Suetonius' portrait of Nero offers one of the most vivid and controversial accounts of a Roman emperor whose reign combined artistic ambition, political intrigue, and notorious excess.

In this celebrated biography from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars,... Read Full Overview

Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (c70-c140), also known as Suetonius, was a prominent Roman historian and biographer. He is mainly remembered as the author of De Vita Caesarum (Lives of the Caesars, best known in English as The Twelve Caesars), his only extant work. The Twelve Caesars,... Read Full Overview

"The Lives of the Twelve Caesars Volume VI" from Suetonius. Roman historian (70A.D.-130A.D.).