Suetonius © Suetonius was the Roman governor of Britain who defeated Boudicca's rebellion. Little is known of Gaius Suetonius Paulinus's early life. The earliest ...

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In a memorable scene from the classic BBC TV series I, Claudius (1976), three frightened senators are summoned to the palace in the dead of night by the emperor Caligula. Rather than being executed, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Julius Caesar hustled for a succession of public offices during his rise to power because he needed to secure ...

In spite of the developments in Suetonian studies since W. Steidle’s ‘rehabilitation’ of Suetonius in 1951, the last international conference on this author was held in 2008 (‟Suetonius the biographer ...

Dr. Power has taught Classics at Reading, Syracuse, and Columbia, and written on Pliny, Catullus, and other ancient authors, including Suetonius. In this book, we get a collection of nearly three ...

Charlemagne and The Sopranos, Trump and I, Claudius – all owe a debt to the imperial biographies of Suetonius. By Tom Holland Some time in the early ninth century AD, a Frankish scholar named Einhard ...

Suetonius says that Caligula wanted to be treated as a god The Roman historian Suetonius says that Caligula wanted to be treated as a god, and connected his palace in the Roman Forum to a major temple ...

The Lives of the Caesars, translated from Latin by The Rest Is History podcast co-host Tom Holland, details everything from ancient policy failures to sex scandals A gossipy account of the lives of ...