Suetonius: Lives of Galba, Otho and Vitellius

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Suetonius: Lives of Galba, Otho and VitelliusAris & Phillips Classical Texts Suetonius has often been used as if he were an historian, and at the same time criticised for not being one. This is a new translation of and commentary on Suetonius' biographies of three emperors, Galba, Otho, and Vitellius, who held power for short periods in the tumultuous and confused events that encompassed and followed the end of the Julio Claudian period in AD 69. The introductory essays discuss Suetonius'

Latin text with facing page translation

In the golden city of Famagusta

friendship and courage

In modern times the Phaedrus has been relatively neglected

The dating of the Phaedrus has been hotly debated: sometimes it has been counted among Plato's earliest works

the rise and development and fall of the Roman legions

The Cynics were ancient Greek philosophers who stood athwart the flood of society’s material excess

At the end of each section

The athletic competitions that took place during festivals like that at Olympia

and it integrates the learning of classical Latin with an appreciation of the influence of the Latin language upon English and European culture from antiquity to the present

It explores a representative sample of each poet's surviving work

can in many respects plausibly be linked with the approach of the later and more critical dialogues

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