Suetonius

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Roman historian ancient Roman writer author biographer

Suetonius was a Roman historian and biographer best known for his work "The Twelve Caesars," which provides detailed accounts of the lives of Rome’s early emperors.

Aliases (4)

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Roman historian → ancient Roman writer → author → biographer →
birthDate	circa 69 CE →
birthPlace	Roman Empire → possibly Hippo Regius in North Africa →
citizenship	Roman Empire →
contemporaryOf	Pliny the Younger →
correspondedWith	Pliny the Younger →
deathDate	after 122 CE →
employer	Roman imperial administration →
era	Silver Age of Latin literature →
genre	biography → history → literary criticism →
influenced	Renaissance historians → medieval biographical writing → modern biographies of Roman emperors →
language	Latin →
name	Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus →
notableWork	De vita Caesarum → The Twelve Caesars →
occupation	archivist → secretary →
periodDescribed	Flavian dynasty → Julio-Claudian dynasty → Year of the Four Emperors →
positionHeld	magister epistularum → secretary of correspondence to Emperor Hadrian →
servedUnder	Emperor Hadrian → Emperor Trajan →
subjectOf	classical scholarship →
usesSources	imperial archives → official documents → personal anecdotes →
writingStyle	anecdotal → topical rather than strictly chronological →
wroteAbout	Augustus → Caligula → Claudius → Domitian → Galba → Julius Caesar → Nero → Otho → Tiberius → Titus → Vespasian → Vitellius →

Referenced by (15)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Caligula → Livia Orestilla → Scribonia →	historicalSource
Atia Balba Caesonia ("Suetonius' The Twelve Caesars") → Vipsania Agrippina ("Suetonius' The Twelve Caesars") →	mentionedIn
Principate →	describedBySource
Lollia Paulina ("Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars") →	describedIn
Caesar’s civil war →	documentedBy
Pisonian conspiracy →	hasSource
Einhard →	influencedBy
Actium →	mentionedBy
Baiae →	mentionedInWorkBy
Suetonius ("Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus") →	name
Agrippina the Elder ("The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius") →	portrayedIn
Great Fire of Rome →	primarySource