The Twelve Caesars is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire. The work was written in 121 during the reign of the emperor Hadrian, while Suetonius was Hadrian’s personal secretary. On the Life of the Caesars concentrates on the acts and personalities of the Julio-Claudians and their immediate successors. Together with Tacitus’ Annals, this work is a major source for the historical details in Robert Graves’ novels “I Claudius” and “Claudius the God”.
Latest episodes of the podcast The Lives of the Twelve Caesars by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
- 00 – Preface
- 01 – Julius Caesar pt 1
- 02 – Julius Caesar pt 2
- 03 – Julius Caesar pt 3
- 04 – Julius Caesar pt 4
- 05 – Julius Caesar pt 5
- 06 – Caesar Augustus pt 1
- 07 – Caesar Augustus pt 2
- 08 – Caesar Augustus pt 3
- 09 – Caesar Augustus pt 4
- 10 – Caesar Augustus pt 5
- 11 – Caesar Augustus pt 6
- 12 – Tiberius pt 1
- 13 – Tiberius pt 2
- 14 – Tiberius pt 3
- 15 – Tiberius pt 4
- 16 – Caligula pt 1
- 17 – Caligula pt 2
- 18 – Caligula pt 3
- 19 – Claudius pt 1
- 20 – Claudius pt 2
- 21 – Claudius pt 3
- 22 – Nero pt 1
- 23 – Nero pt 2
- 24 – Nero pt 3
- 25 – Nero pt 4
- 26 – Galba pt 1
- 27 – Galba pt 2
- 28 – Otho
- 29 – Vitellius
- 30 – Vespasian pt 1
- 31 – Vespasian pt 2
- 32 – Titus
- 33 – Domitian pt 1
- 34 – Domitian, part 2
- 35 – Lives of Eminent Grammarians pt 1
- 36 – Lives of Eminent Grammarians pt 2
- 37 – Lives of Eminent Rhetoricians par 1-6
- 38 – Lives of the Poets