Download or read book The Twelve Caesars (Kartindo Classics Edition) written by C. Tranquillus and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: De vita Caesarum commonly known as The Twelve Caesars, is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus. The work, written in AD 121 during the reign of the emperor Hadrian, was the most popular work of Suetonius, at that time Hadrian's personal secretary, and is the largest among his surviving writings. It was dedicated to a friend, the Praetorian prefect Gaius Septicius Clarus.