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Author : Suetonius
Publisher : London : H.G. Bohn
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Emperors
ISBN : UCSD:31822041503780
Author : Suetonius
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781365539893
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars by 2nd Century Roman historian Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus is the key primary source of biographical information for the first twelve rules of ancient Rome - emperors Julius Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian, Titus and Domitian.
Author : C. Suetonius Tranquillus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1774412675
Gaius Julius Caesar (13 July 100 BC[1] - 15 March 44 BC), usually called Julius Caesar, was a Roman politician and general who played a critical role in the events that led to the demise of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Roman Empire. He is also known as a notable author of Latin prose. In 60 BC, Julius Caesar, Crassus and Pompey formed a political alliance that dominated Roman politics for several years. Their attempts to amass power as Populares were opposed by the Optimates within the Roman Senate, among them Cato the Younger with the frequent support of Cicero. Caesar's victories in the Gallic Wars, completed by 51 BC, extended Rome's territory to the English Channel and the Rhine. Julius Caesar became the first Roman general to cross both the Channel and the Rhine, when he built a bridge across the Rhine and crossed the Channel to invade Britain. These achievements granted him unmatched military power and threatened to eclipse the standing of Pompey, who had realigned himself with the Senate after the death of Crassus in 53 BC. With the Gallic Wars concluded, the Senate ordered Caesar to step down from his military command and return to Rome. Julius Caesar found himself with no other options, but to cross the Rubicon with the 13th Legion, leaving his province and illegally entering Roman Italy under arms. Civil war resulted and Caesar's victory in the war put him in an unrivalled position of power and influence. After assuming control of government, Julius Caesar began a programme of social and governmental reforms, including the creation of the Julian calendar. He gave citizenship to many residents of far regions of the Roman Empire. He initiated land reform and support for veterans. He centralised the bureaucracy of the Republic and was eventually proclaimed "dictator in perpetuity", giving him additional authority. His populist and authoritarian reforms angered the elites, who began to conspire against him. On the Ides of March (15 March) 44 BC Julius Caesar was assassinated by a group of rebellious senators led by Gaius Cassius Longinus, Marcus Junius Brutus and Decimus Junius Brutus. A new series of civil wars broke out and the constitutional government of the Republic was never fully restored. Caesar's adopted heir Octavian, later known as Augustus, rose to sole power after defeating his opponents in the civil war. Octavian set about solidifying his power and the era of the Roman Empire began. Much of Julius Caesar's life is known from his own accounts of his military campaigns and from other contemporary sources, mainly the letters and speeches of Cicero and the historical writings of Sallust. The later biographies of Caesar by Suetonius and Plutarch are also major sources. Caesar is considered by many historians to be one of the greatest military commanders in history.
Author : Mary Beard
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780691222363
The story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power for more than 2,000 years. What does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of politicians we deplore?
Author : Suetonius
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : Emperors
ISBN : UOM:39015057942677
Author : Matthew Dennison
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781250023544
An unforgettable depiction of the Roman empire at the height of its power and reach, and an elegantly sensational retelling of the lives and times of the twelve Caesars One of the them was a military genius, one murdered his mother and fiddled while Rome burned, another earned the nickname "sphincter artist". Six of their number were assassinated, two committed suicide—and five of them were elevated to the status of gods. They have come down to posterity as the "twelve Caesars"—Julius Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian. Under their rule, from 49 BC to AD 96, Rome was transformed from a republic to an empire, whose model of regal autocracy would survive in the West for more than a thousand years. Matthew Dennison offers a beautifully crafted sequence of colorful biographies of each emperor, triumphantly evoking the luxury, license, brutality, and sophistication of imperial Rome at its zenith. But as well as vividly recreating the lives, loves, and vices of this motley group of despots, psychopaths and perverts, he paints a portrait of an era of political and social revolution, of the bloody overthrow of a proud, five-hundred-year-old political system and its replacement by a dictatorship which, against all the odds, succeeded more convincingly than oligarchic democracy in governing a vast international landmass.
Author : Suetonius,J. C. Rolfe
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 659 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486822198
One of antiquity's great historical resources, this chronicle portrays the lives and reigns of Julius Caesar and his 11 immediate successors.
Author : Suetonius
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9788027244553
This eBook edition of "The Twelve Caesars" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The Twelve Caesars is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus. The book provides valuable information on the heritage, personal habits, physical appearance, lives, and political careers of the first Roman emperors as it mentions details which other sources do not. As with many of his contemporaries, Suetonius took omens seriously and carefully includes reports of omens portending Imperial births, accessions, and deaths. The Twelve Caesars was considered very significant in antiquity and remains a primary source on Roman history. The book discusses the significant and critical period of the Principate from the end of the Republic to the reign of Domitian.
Author : Suetonius
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 643 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547010630
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars is a book by Suetonius. It presents a biography of the 12 leaders of Rome, containing their roots, rise to power and tribulations in the Roman society.
Author : Suetonius
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Emperors
ISBN : CUB:U183015157943
Author : C. Suetonius Tranquillus,Alexander Thomason
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385354692
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Author : Anthony Birley
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141935997
One of the most controversial of all works to survive from ancient Rome, the Augustan History is our main source of information about the Roman emperors from 117 to 284 AD. Written in the late fourth century by an anonymous author, it is an enigmatic combination of truth, invention and humour. This volume contains the first half of the History, and includes biographies of every emperor from Hadrian to Heliogabalus - among them the godlike Marcus Antonius and his grotesquely corrupt son Commodus. The History contains many fictitious (but highly entertaining) anecdotes about the depravity of the emperors, as the author blends historical fact and faked documents to present our most complete - albeit unreliable - account of the later Roman Caesars.
Author : G. Suetonius Tranquillus
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781627932769
The Twelve Caesars, is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus. The work, written in AD 121 during the reign of the emperor Hadrian, was the most popular work of Suetonius, at that time Hadrian's personal secretary, and is the largest among his surviving writings. The Twelve Caesars is considered very significant in antiquity and remains a primary source on Roman history.
Author : G. Suetonias Tranquillis
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781625580528
The Twelve Caesars, is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus. The work, written in AD 121 during the reign of the emperor Hadrian, was the most popular work of Suetonius, at that time Hadrian's personal secretary, and is the largest among his surviving writings. The Twelve Caesars is considered very significant in antiquity and remains a primary source on Roman history.
Author : G. Surtonius Tranquillus
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781625581327
The Twelve Caesars is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus. The work, written in AD 121 during the reign of the emperor Hadrian, was the most popular work of Suetonius, at that time Hadrian's personal secretary, and is the largest among his surviving writings. The Twelve Caesars is considered very significant in antiquity and remains a primary source on Roman history.
