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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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 ...

Caillan Davenport receives funding from the Australian Research Council. In a memorable scene from the classic BBC TV series I, Claudius (1976), three frightened senators are summoned to the palace in ...

An ancient Roman text has surged onto modern bestseller lists, proving that power, scandal and ambition never lose their grip. Suetonius’s portraits of emperors feel startlingly current, raising fresh ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rome in the first century was carefully chronicled by Roman historians, particularly Tacitus, Suetonius and Dio Cassius – that is why we know so much about it. Tacitus was a political player in his ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...