Suetonius
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Late 1st/early 2nd-century Roman historian
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Why Is Suetonius Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus , commonly referred to as Suetonius , was a Roman historian who wrote during the early Imperial era of the Roman Empire. His most important surviving work is a set of biographies of 12 successive Roman rulers from Julius Caesar to Domitian, properly titled De vita Caesarum. Other works by Suetonius concerned the daily life of Rome, politics, oratory, and the lives of famous writers, including poets, historians, and grammarians. A few of these books have partially survived, but many have been lost.
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What Are Suetonius's Academic Contributions?
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