Suetonius chronicled the Caesars’ personal habits as well as their public achievements. Julius and Augustus provided him with little lurid gossip, for the two soldier–statesmen were engrossed in the ...

Half a lifetime ago, when I was living in Rome, I kept Suetonius’s Lives of the Caesars in the Penguin translation by Robert Graves as a bedside book. It’s a fascinating book, full of good stories, ...

Graves likely got this idea from earlier historical works. In the The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, published in 121 CE, the historian Suetonius punctuates a description of Caligula’s love for ...

It was instituted by Constantine, although there are some indications that such a tax existed during the reign of Caligula (see Suetonius, Lives of the Twelve Caesars). It applied to both the Western ...

This article is about the wife of Julius Caesar. For other uses, see Cornelia (disambiguation). However, neither the deprivation of his priesthood, Cornelia's dowry, and his own inheritance, nor the ...

He wasn't a man of flashy luxury, but you can see how his children are living a slightly more lavish life now. Here's a look at how the Walton family empire spends its money: Sam Walton opened the ...

You’ve reached your account maximum for followed topics. The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives was an overnight success after first premiering on Hulu earlier this September. This show dives deep ...