Biography of suetonius

Roman historian (c. AD 69 – after AD )

This article is about the Roman historian. For the Roman general who put down the rebellion of Boudica, see Gaius Suetonius Paulinus.

Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Latin:[ˈɡaːiʊssweːˈtoːniʊstraŋˈkᶣɪlːʊs]), commonly referred to as Suetonius (swih-TOH-nee-əs; c.&#;AD 69 &#; after AD ),^[2] was a Roman historian who wrote during the early Imperial era of the Roman Empire.

Biography of suetonius

His most important surviving work is De vita Caesarum, commonly known in English as The Twelve Caesars, a set of biographies of 12 successive Roman rulers from Julius Caesar to Domitian. Other works by Suetonius concerned the daily life of Rome, politics, oratory, and the lives of famous writers, including poets, historians, and grammarians.

A few of these books have partially survived, but many have been lost.

Life

Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus was probably born about AD 69, a date deduced from his remarks describing himself as a "youn