Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, commonly known as Suetonius, was a biographer and historian of the early Roman Empire, born around 69 CE and deceased after 122 CE. He served as secretary to the emperor Hadrian, a position that gave him access to imperial archives and valuable primary materials for his later writing. His representative work, The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, recounts the lives of twelve rulers from Julius Caesar to Domitian, covering political measures, military activities, and private life, with attention to anecdotes and detail in a plain and concrete style. It is an important source for the study of early Roman imperial history. The library holds fifteen of his related works, mostly individual volumes or complete editions of The Lives of the Twelve Caesars. Public information about the details of his life is limited, and later generations have chiefly known him through his writings and a few ancient records.