Or so Suetonius tells us in his scurrilous, meticulously detailed The Lives of the Caesars — written in the second century AD, when gossip was still swirling about the personal foibles ...

Half a lifetime ago, when I was living in Rome, I kept Suetonius’s Lives of the Caesars in the Penguin translation by Robert Graves as a bedside book. It’s a fascinating book, full of good stories, ...

First came the twelve great gods and goddesses ... Omens and Portents: Roman historians such as Suetonius and Tacitus frequently reported the occurrence of miraculous omens or portents regarding ...

Tiberius’ retreat from Rome bred rumor and suspicion. The historian Suetonius, in his epic work The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, would later accuse him of setting up a licentious colony where ...

The Rest Is History’s Tom Holland will be presenting his masterful new translation of Suetonius’ The Twelve Caesars, bringing the first Roman emperors to life with stunning detail. From foreign crises ...

Suetonius tells us that Caesar was smitten by Cleopatra ... Advised by his confidant and philosopher Arius Didymus that “too many Caesars is not good”, the new Emperor planned his rival’s murder, ...