The Lives of the Caesars
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Tom Holland is a master populariser of the ancients ... his new translation of Suetonius [is] a peerlessly enjoyable introduction to the earlier imperial Romans. [It] remind[s] us that the monsters who, astoundingly, achieve power in 21st-century democracies had forebears in the ancient world who matched them folly for folly, whim for whim, vanity for vanitySunday Times - Max HastingsA gossipy, often racy biography of 12 rulers of the Roman Empire, from Julius Caesar to the emperor Domitian, written by the historian Suetonius in AD 121. Holland's beautifully fluent translation is compulsively ...
ISBN (SKU)
9780141980386
Pages
448
Weight
328g
Dimensions
198x130x24
Imprint
Penguin Classics
Published
26, March, 2026
Genres
History
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