Suetonius Caligula

Author : Suetonius
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141397934
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Caligula written by Suetonius and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Because of his baldness and hairiness, he announced it was a capital offence for anyone either to look down on him as he passed or to mention goats in any context.' The biography of the brutal, crazed and incestuous Roman Emperor Caligula, who tried to appoint his own horse consul. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (c.70-130 CE). Suetonius's The Twelve Caesars is also available in Penguin Classics.

Author : D. Wardle
Publisher : Peeters
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Suetonius' Life of Caligula written by D. Wardle and published by Peeters. This book was released on 1994 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Suetonius
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Suetonius: Caligula written by Suetonius and published by Bristol Classical Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of the Roman historian Suetonius' life of the notorious emperor Caligula includes an introduction giving historical background, the Latin text,and commentary/notes on the text.

Author : Ruskin Raymond Rosborough
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Epigraphic Commentary on Suetonius's Life of Gaius Caligula written by Ruskin Raymond Rosborough and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : C. Suetonious Tranquillus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781774413180
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Caligula written by C. Suetonious Tranquillus and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caligula, by C. Suetonious Tranquillus, is an amazing Roman emperor biography of a madman, the Roman emperor, Caligula. One finds it hard to believe that such a man existed, even in Rome. There are few surviving sources about the reign of Caligula, although he is described as a noble and moderate emperor during the first six months of his rule. After this, the sources focus upon his cruelty, sadism, extravagance, and sexual perversion, presenting him as an insane tyrant. Caligula (Latin: Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus; 31 August 12 - 24 January 41 AD), was Roman emperor from AD 37 to AD 41. The son of Germanicus, a popular Roman general, and Agrippina the Elder, the granddaughter of Augustus, Caligula was born into the first ruling family of the Roman Empire, conventionally known as the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Two years after Caligula's birth, Germanicus' uncle and adoptive father, Tiberius, succeeded Augustus as emperor of Rome in AD 14. Although he was born Gaius Caesar, after Julius Caesar, he acquired the nickname "Caligula" (meaning "little soldier's boot", the diminutive form of caliga) from his father's soldiers during their campaign in Germania

Author : Suetonius
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Suetonius: Lives of the Caesars, book I-IV written by Suetonius and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For this revised edition Donna W. Hurley has selectively corrected and updated the translation and notes of "Lives of the Caesars"; G. P. Goold has revised the text of "Lives of Illustrious Men" to take account of recent scholarship. In a substantial new introduction K. R. Bradley analyzes Suetonius' work.

Author : Anthony A. Barrett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134609884
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Caligula written by Anthony A. Barrett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all Roman emperors none, with the possible exception of Nero, surpasses Caligula's reputation for infamy. But was Caligula really the mad despot and depraved monster of popular legend or the victim of hostile ancient historians? In this study of Caligula's life, reign and violent death, Anthony A. Barrett draws on the archaeological and numismatic evidence to supplement the later written record. In Professor Barrett's view, the mystery of Caligula's reign is not why he descended into autocracy, but how any intelligent Roman could have expected a different outcome - to grant total power to an inexperienced and arrogant young man was a recipe for disaster. This book, scholarly and accessible, offers a careful reconstruction of Caligula's life and times, and a shrewd assessment of his historical importance.

Author : Aloys Winterling
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520287592
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Caligula written by Aloys Winterling and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edition statement inferred from Epilogue.

Author : Suetonius
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lives of the Twelve Caesars written by Suetonius and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : C. Suetonius Tranquillus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781406551464
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lives of the Twelve Caesars written by C. Suetonius Tranquillus and published by . This book was released on 2007-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (c70-c140), also known as Suetonius, was a prominent Roman historian and biographer. He is mainly remembered as the author of De Vita Caesarum (Lives of the Caesars, best known in English as The Twelve Caesars), his only extant work. The Twelve Caesars, probably written in Hadrian's time, is a collective biography of the Roman Empire's first leaders who were: Julius Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian, Titus and Domitian. The work tells the tale of each Caesar's life according to a set formula: the descriptions of appearance, omens, family history, quotes, and then a history are given in a consistent order for each Caesar. Suetonius regarded emperors who amassed wealth for the public purse to be "greedy", perhaps a reflection of the average Roman middle class attitudes.