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THE TWELVE CAESARS IBD

BENEDICTION CLASSICS
11 / 2014
9781781394427
Inglés

Sinopsis

'Upon the whole, he added nothing to his own happiness by all the dangers, the fatigues, and the perpetual anxiety which he had incurred in the pursuit of unlimited power,'á-áSuetoniusáon Julius Caesar.'Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system,'áSuetonius.The Twelve Caesars-Julius Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian-created an empire which dominated the then-known world and influenced it for a millennium. Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.áSuetonius, personal secretary to Emperor Trajan, used the Imperial Archives and eyewitness accounts to paint a portrait of absolute power.His format and style set the tone for Western biography - a review of ancestry and reign, but, mostly, a mirror to reflect the most ridiculous aspects of the character, and a vehicle for gossip.áJulius Caesar does cross the Rubicon and is assassinated.ááBeyond that, we also learn that Caesar had piercing dark eyes and an unease about his baldness.ááNero, we are told, employed over five thousand robust young men to learn various kinds of applause which they were to practice whenever he performed.áSuetonius, in fulláGaius Suetonius Tranquillus, was born in 69 AD and in 117 AD entered TrajanâÇÖs imperial service, holding many offices until 122 AD when he was dismissed. Suetonius wrote a number of biographies includingáOn Famous Men,áLives of the Grammarians, andáLives of the Poets.áá

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