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Introduction

Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (born c. 69 CE) was prominent as a senior figure in the imperial administration of the early 2nd century CE and as a scholar who produced a range of works in the areas of biography, antiquarianism, and philology.

His principal concern was to collect and present material pertinent to the biographical goal of realistically illustrating imperial performance and personality.

His principal concern was to collect and present material pertinent to the biographical goal of realistically illustrating imperial performance and personality.

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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology.

Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (cc): Roman scholar and official, best-known as the author of the Lives of the Twelve Caesars.

1 The father of Claudius Caesar, Drusus, who at first had the forename Decimus and later that of Nero, was born of Livia within three months.

The majority of these survive only as titles or in fragmentary form. He is best known for his best-preserved work, De vita Caesarum, biographies of the rulers of the Roman world from Julius Caesar to Domitian, and was probably the first Roman to write imperial biographies that were distinct from annalistic histories.

The work is of major importance as a historical source for the early Principate, as his inclusivity has preserved much unique material revealing what contemporaries, and near-contemporaries, of the emperors said about them. It has often been criticized for its inclusion of trivial material