Zhizn' dvenadtsati tsezarei - Svetonii Trankvill, Gai

Guy Svetoniy Trankville (circa 70 AD - after 122 AD) - Roman writer and historian, personal secretary of Emperor Hadrian. The most famous work of Svetonia is a collection of biographies "The Life of the Twelve Caesars" in which the author describes the appearance, habits, details of the personal life of the most famous rulers of Rome. It is in this book contains famous stories related to the Roman emperors (Caligula's horse, Nero's acting exercises, Vespasian's words "money doesn't smell", Titus's words "friends, I lost a day" and others). The book immediately became popular and remains so to this day. The information collected by Light is often cited, its descriptions of emperors served as the basis for the works of many other authors, and in the modern world are used in the scripts of films about the life of ancient Rome. This edition contains a large number of illustrations, so the book acquires a special entertainment.