Gossipy, vivid lives of Julius Caesar and the first eleven emperors, virtues and vices alike. Suetonius's enduringly readable Roman history.
Books mentioned in The Twelve Caesars (2)
Anticato by Julius Caesar: “He has left behind him likewise two books on Analogy, with the same number under the title of Anti-Cato, and a poem entitled The Itinerary.”
Bellum Punicum by Gnaeus Naevius: “Thus, Caius Octavius Lampadio edited the Punic War of Naevius [851], which having been written in one volume without any break in the manuscript, he divided into seven books.”
Books that mention The Twelve Caesars (1)
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas by Machado de Assis: “Suetonius gave us a Claudius who was a simpleton—or 'a pumpkinhead' as Seneca called him.”