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The Lives of the Twelve Caesars -Caligula- Hardcover – April 3, 2018
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- Print length38 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherSMK Books
- Publication dateApril 3, 2018
- Dimensions6 x 0.25 x 9 inches
- ISBN-101515429172
- ISBN-13978-1515429173
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- Publisher : SMK Books (April 3, 2018)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 38 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1515429172
- ISBN-13 : 978-1515429173
- Item Weight : 8.1 ounces
- Dimensions : 6 x 0.25 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #5,542,409 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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HOWEVER BE AWARE this version has added material written much later than the original, which was written in 121 AD.
I still hightly recommed the whole book, original and added material, both are useful and informative.
Exmples of added material: for instance there is a reference to "the pagan world" (page 28, loc 927) and "pounds sterling" (page 25 location 836), and somewhere a quote from St Augustine.
I got a print copy of Penguin's The Twelve Caesars and compared it. It appears all the mini-bios of contemporaries that occur at the end of each emporer's bio are added later. In the life of Julius Caesar, the Penguin book ends at the sentence
"Part of them perished at sea, others fell in battle; and some slew themselves ....
The Kindle book continues with "The termination of the civil war between Caesar and Pompey forms a new epoch in the Roman History...". Then follow reflections on the career of Caesar, and short and interesting bios of Cicero, Varro, Cattulus, and others. These were added later, probably in the 19th century by a British writer.
-1 star for not making clear what is by Suetonius and what is not, and for "this book is not enabled for searching"--come on Amazon, that's the biggest advantage of digital books.
More on the additions: I found the same text on Perseus at Tufts U and it had this information:
"... In order to more fully "paint the picture of the times," we have had written and interspersed in chronological order, the lives of all the distinguished associates of the Twelve Caesars, male and female, which we trust will be a great improvement on any previous edition."
He also did some censoring, though he left in plenty:
"By the suppression of about two dozen lines in the entire work, which have been indicated by * * * * we have produced a work unobjectionable for general reading; the suppressed passages refer to grossly unnatural crimes which probably never were committed - but the relation of which was likely prompted by the political party rancour of the period."
The Tufts citation: Suetonius: The Lives of the Twelve Caesars; An English Translation, Augmented with the Biographies of Contemporary Statesmen, Orators, Poets, and Other Associates. Suetonius. Publishing Editor. J. Eugene Reed. Alexander Thomson. Philadelphia. Gebbie & Co. 1889
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Obra monumental, uma fonte fantástica para os aficionados de História.
Minha impressão pessoal após lê-lo: passados 2 mil anos, muita coisa mudou. Mas a Política permanece a mesma...