In it, Suetonius lays bare the saucy details ... time learning about all the naughty antics these twelve Roman statesmen, generals, and emperors got up to. As this trend showed, many people ...

Lifting the curtain on the life of the controversial emperor Tiberius.

In fact, a number of supernatural phenomena were even attributed to certain philosophers and emperors. Omens and Portents: Roman historians such as Suetonius and Tacitus frequently reported the ...

Enough of the Princeps, what remains to be described, is the monster….

His judgments would help shape Roman history for centuries ... of Rome from the time of Julius Caesar to the Emperor Domitian. In this book, Suetonius organized his biographies not by person ...

ISBN: 978-0-521-70825-8 In Claudius Caesar Osgood gives us not so much a biography of the fourth emperor ... Emergence of the Roman Empire (2006), Prof. Osgood (Classics, Georgetown), views the ...