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The Twelve Caesars

Suetonius

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Tom Holland recommends it
Suetonius's work is a collection of biographies of the first 12 Roman rulers, from Julius Caesar through to Domitian. And it really had a crucial sense of shaping our understanding of Imperial Rome as a place of vice and savagery and sexual depravity and violent, brutal, bawdy splendour.

on fivebooks.com · 13 Sep 2011

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