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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 (ca. 69/75 - after 130), also known as Suetonius, was a prominent Ancient Rome historian and biographer.

Life Suetonius was born the son of Suetonius Laetus, who probably came from Hippo Regius (Annaba, Algeria). Laetus was an equestrian (Roman) who served and took part in the first Battle of Bedriacum for the Emperor Otho and against the future Emperor Vitellius in 69.

Suetonius was a close friend to Roman Senate and historian Pliny the Younger. Pliny describes him as "quiet and studious, a man dedicated to writing." Pliny helped him buy a small property in Italia (Roman province) and interceded with the Emperor Trajan to grant Suetonius immunities usually granted to a father of three, the jus trium liberorum, because his marriage was childless.Pliny the Younger, Letters 10.95 Through Pliny, Suetonius came into favour with Trajan and Hadrian.

Suetonius served on Pliny’s staff when Pliny was Proconsul of Bithynia Pontus (northern Asia Minor) between 110 and 112. Under Trajan he served as secretary of studies (precise functions are uncertain) and director of Imperial archives. Under Hadrian, he became the Emperor's secretary.

In 122, Hadrian dismissed him for disrespectful behaviour towards Empress Vibia Sabina. Suetonius may have later regained imperial favor under Hadrian and returned to his position. This hypothesis is based on the suggestion that Offices of State was one of his last works, and that the subject was chosen to reflect Hadrian's administrative reforms. However, there is no certain evidence for a public career after 122.

Works Twelve Caesars 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 except for the brief lives and other fragments noted below. The Twelve Caesars, probably written in Hadrian's time, is a collective biography of the Roman Empire's first leaders who were: Julius Caesar (the first few chapters are missing), Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian, Titus and Domitian. The book was dedicated to a friend Gaius Septicius Clarus, a prefect of the Praetorian Guard in 119. 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.

Other works Partly extant

De Viris Illustribus ("On Famous Men" — in the field of literature), to which belong:

De Illustribus Grammaticis ("Lives Of The Grammarians"; 20 brief lives, apparently complete)
De Claris Rhetoribus ("Lives Of The Rhetoricians"; 5 brief lives out of an original 16 survive)
De Poetis ("Lives Of The Poets"; the life of Virgil, as well as fragments from the lives of Terence, Horace and Lucan, survive)
De historicis ("Lives of the historians"; a brief life of Pliny the Elder is attributed to this work)

Peri ton par' Hellesi paidion ("Greek Games")
Peri blasphemion ("Greek Terms of Abuse")

The two last works were written in Greek. They apparently survive in part in the form of extracts in later Greek glossaries.

Lost

Lives of Famous Whores
Royal Biographies
Roma ("On Rome"), in four parts:

Roman Manners & Customs
The Roman Year
The Roman Festivals
Roman Dress

Offices of State
On Cicero’s Republic
Physical Defects of Mankind
Methods of Reckoning Time
An Essay on Nature
Grammatical Problems
Critical Signs Used in Books

References External links

The Lives of the Twelve Caesars at LacusCurtius (Latin original, English translation)
Suetonius' works at Latin Library (Latin)

The Lives of the Twelve Caesars at Project Gutenberg (English translation - includes Lives Of The Grammarians, Rhetoricians, And Poets)

Suetonius and the reign of Tiberius: a comparison with other sources
Suetonius' Twelve Caesars at RomansOnline.Com
Suetonius' Twelve Caesars at Roman Literature Online

Suetonius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (ca. 69 / 75 - after 130), also known as Suetonius, was a prominent Roman historian and biographer.

BBC - History - Suetonius (?)
Suetonius was the Roman governor of Britain who defeated Boudicca's rebellion

SUETONIUS
Suetonius ... Roman-Britain.ORG Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus The Lives of the Caesars

Oxford World's Classics Magazine
Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars (on which I, Claudius is partly based) shows that there were similar obsessions almost two millennia ago.

C. Suetonius Tranquillus
home : index : ancient Rome : article by Jona Lendering © C. Suetonius Tranquillus: Portrait of a man from Ostia (Palazzo Massimo alle

LacusCurtius • Suetonius' Twelve Caesars
English entry page to the complete Latin text and an English translation of the work. Part of a large site containing many Greek and Latin texts.

Emblematic Scenes in Suetonius' Vitellius
John Burke offers this paper which examines Seutonius' biography of the emperor Vitellius.

Suetonius • Life of Caligula
An English translation, linked to the original Latin text. Part of a very large site on classical Antiquity, with many other ancient works.

The Twelve Caesars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
De vita Caesarum (Latin, direct translation: On the Life of the Caesars) commonly known as The Twelve Caesars, is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 ...

GAIUS SUETONIUS PAULINUS
Gaius Suetonius Paulinus ... Roman-Britain.ORG Gaius Suetonius Paulinus Governor of Britannia from c. AD58 to 61"