THE TWELVE CAESAR

Suetonius: The Twelve Caesar Translated by Robert Graves

Suetonius: The Twelve Caesar Translated by Robert Graves

In his book Suetonius: The Twelve Caesar Translated by Robert Graves, a collection of twelve biographies of emperors from Caesar to Domitian written around 120, leaves us with two references to Christians. He had access to all archives and used the information thus found to write the biographies of the emperors (De vita Caesarum). The occasion to speak of Christ is the expulsion of Jews from Rome under Claudius (41-54), which also mentioned in Acts 18.2: In fact, Claudius had commanded all Jews to leave Rome. Since Shakespeare's play founded on Plutarch's biography on Caesar, it would be fitting that the two anecdotes of this identical individual be nearly precisely the same. That is not the case.

As Robert Graves work can be in evaluation to Plutarch's, so can Plutarch's work be in evaluation to Suetonius. In this evaluation, the two biographies are similar. Although, Plutarch does not arrive out and state he considered Caesar's death supported he does appear to thin in that direction. Suetonius, on the other hand, states, He misused forces and was fairly slain' (The Lives of the Twelve Caesars 110). In both, The Life of Caesar and The Lives of the Twelve Caesars Caesar conveyed as determin and as having a yearn to gain supreme authority. He also showed to be conceited and disrespectful. In both anecdotes, Caesar outrages the persons and council by denying standing when the consuls advanced him. Also in both anecdotes Caesar develops furious when two tribunes, Marullus and Flavius, eliminate adornments from Caesar's figurines and apprehensions the man who announced Caesar king.

Julius Caesar dwelled in a time when learning and publications were just starting to boom. It is one of the most documented times in annals, and Julius Caesar is one of the most documented chronicled numbers of all time. However, no two anecdotes on Caesar's life are the same. A good demonstration of this diversity is Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar in evaluation to Plutarch's The Life of Caesar. Although Shakespeare utilized Plutarch's work as his cornerstone for the play, the two anecdotes completed up completely different. They displayed two distinct edges to one man, like the classic Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde story. One displayed a clothed up, finalized, tragic champion while the other displayed the factual warts and all significant man who got too hungry with power and penalized for it.

Of the works of the Roman historian, Suetonius De Caesarum life (121 AD) is the only one to have kept in whole, in eight books, contains the biographies of the first 12 Roman emperors, from Julius Caesar to Domitian. The genre of the biography was very popular in the first and second centuries; Suetonius was an advantage in the preparation of the work done by the court to hold the posts of secretary and archivist for the correspondence of the emperor, so they can tap into sources otherwise ...