The Twelve Caesars, Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus; Robert Graves (Translation). Published by The Folio Society, 1990. 8vo up to 9½” tall., 318pp; illustrated with wood-engravings Raymond Hawthorn. Brick red cloth with gilt portrait medallions against a blue border; gilt spine titles, double page mapped endpapers. Housed in a blue slipcase. In fine, unread condition.
The Twelve Caesars is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire during the Principate. The subjects are Julius Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian, Titus, Domitian. It was written in 121 CE by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (called “Suetonius” by scholars) while he served as a personal secretary to the emperor Hadrian.
