The Twelve Caesars (Penguin Classics S.) - Softcover

Suetonius

 
9780140449211: The Twelve Caesars (Penguin Classics S.)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0140449213 ISBN 13: 9780140449211
Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, Suetonius gained access to the imperial archives and used them (along with carefully gathered eye-witness 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 and stabilitythat came with his successors. A masterpiece of anecdote, wry observation and detailed physical description, The Twelve Caesars presents us with a gallery of vividly drawn - and all too human - individuals.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus was probably born in AD69 - the famous 'year of the four Emperors'. From the letters of Suetonius' close friend Pliny the Younger we learn that he practiced briefly at the bar, avoided political life, and became chief secretary to the Emperor Hadrian (AD117-38). Suetonius seems to have lived to a good age and probably died around the year AD140.

Robert Graves was born in 1895 in Wimbledon. He went from school to the First World War, where he became a captain in the Royal Welch Fusiliers and was seriously wounded at the Battle of the Somme. He wrote his autobiography, Goodbye to All That, in 1929, and it was soon established as a modern classic. He died on 7 December 1985 in Majorca, his home since 1929.

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Verlag
Penguin Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0140449213
ISBN 13 
9780140449211
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
384
Herausgeber
Grant Michael
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