Vita dei Cesari
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La Vita dei Cesari, scritta nel ii secolo d.C., è una raccolta di dodici biografie di imperatori romani, da Giulio Cesare a Domiziano: biografie storiche ma non romanzate, in cui il racconto è condotto attraverso aneddoti, notizie, indiscrezioni e pettegolezzi che l’autore poté conoscere grazie alla carica di sovrintendente agli archivi imperiali che rivestì sotto Adriano. A comporsi è un quadro inedito e originale della vita privata degli imperatori, dei che solo di rado si mostrarono all’altezza della funzione e degli onori loro tributati. La ricchezza del materiale storico, la narrazione che predilige forme chiare e semplici, la rinuncia a ogni prolissità e ricercatezza conferiscono al racconto quell’impressione di estrema vivacità che gli garantì un’enorme fortuna nei secoli a venire.
- ISBN: 8811361877
- Casa Editrice: Garzanti
- Pagine: 416
- Data di uscita: 19-02-2006
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This Penguin Classic of The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius is the perfect place to start for anybody interested in ancient Greco-Roman history and culture. Not only is this a most engaging translation by Robert Graves, author of I Claudius, but there is a short Forward by classics scholar, Michael Gran Leggi tutto
No words. Each and every member of that "family" and ahherm non family who acquired that infamous title ceasar is such a massive wrecking case of extreams that I can't even begin to fathom that these men are real. Let alone contemplate what citizens must of thought of them in their day. Really? If S Leggi tutto
The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius is a classic. Suetonius was the son of a Roman Night who was born towards the end of the reign of Vespasian (69 CE) and died sometime after 122 CE. He wrote this collection of biographies during the reign of Emperor Hadrian. He intended to write memoirs rather than a
Stranger than any fiction - the chapter on Caligula is truly disturbing. The fact that Suetonius had access to material that others could not get makes this a very interesting examination of Julius Caesar and the first eleven emperors of the Rome. It is amazing to see power that corrupts so absolute Leggi tutto
This is in my Top 10 books. I love it so much, i think i have read it 3 times (no joke). I took this book with me on my travels in Rome and I bored Matt with my constant readings whilst we were visiting all of the historic sites. I have a huge facination with Roman History, so I do appreciate that m Leggi tutto
This is a book I have wanted to read for many years. Thoroughly enjoyed it.
Reading this book makes me kind of thankful that the sociopaths who we choose to govern us are relatively harmless men with only strange dreams of imperialism and desires for fame, riches, and adulation. Sure we have a Vice President who shot a friend in the face and who brazenly admits to authorizi Leggi tutto
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